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09.22.2009 9:00 pm

Bank regulation: Start with overdraft fees

Reforming the nation’s financial regulatory system, which Congress is expected to take up later this year and early next year, is shaping up as a huge hairball, replete with special interest groups, feuding bureaucrats, television ad campaigns and massive amounts…

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09.30.2008 4:51 pm

If we ever get serious: a National Infrastructure Bank

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A map of the St. John's Bayou - New Madrid Floodway Project in southest Missouri, with the Rohatyn piece calims is "described by the (Army) corps' own officials as an 'economic dud with huge environmental consequences.'"

Army Corps St. John's Bayou-New Madrid Floodway Project

Two posts down, I pointed you to an hour-long video of Princeton economists talking about the troubles on Wall Street.

Here is another long-form item I think is worth your time:

Felix Rohatyn, most famous for…

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09.15.2008 3:48 pm

Fundamentally sound-off

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona responded to Monday’s financial crisis on Wall Street by telling an audience in Jacksonville, Fla., that the “The fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.”

Naturally this…

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