Items of interest:
- Keeping Fannie and Freddie Afloat - Editorial, Los Angeles Times
- Housing Bottom, or Deeper Trench? - RealTimeEconomics
- Increasing Foreclosures in Commercial Real Estate - Seeking Alpha
- How Will the Housing Crisis End?
- The Entire State (CA.) Is Considered A Declining Market - Housing Bubble Blog
- Hold the Hysteria on the Economy - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
- Banks Yell Out for Nanny - Jeff Randall, Daily Telegraph
- Our Overextended Federal Reserve - Vincent Reinhart, Wall Street Journal
- Making Tax Day Less Painful - Andrew Yarrow, Washington Times
- Political Comeback: Supply-Side Economics - L. Uchitelle, NYT
- A Blast to the Past: The New New Deal - Daniel Gross, Slate
- Home Price Index in US Fell Record 10.7% in January, Shiller Survey Says - Bloomberg
- Going Into Survival Mode - Boston Globe
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- Ben Bernanke's "Bank Shot" Bracket -- Who's the Fed Chair penciling in for the Final Four?
- Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Detroit, Michigan -- Handicapping the Motown regional.
- Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Las Vegas, Nevada -- Deconstructing the Sin City regional.
- Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Stockton, California -- Checking out the Sunrise Seaport regional.
- Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Cleveland, Ohio -- At first glance, number one seed DISINFLATION plays a style very similar to Final Four contender DEFLATION...
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Skinning the Bear- Bear Rescue Shows Capitalism's Limits - Financial Times
- The Short, Happy Death of Bear - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
- No Tears for Jimmy Cayne - James Stewart, SmartMoney
- An Inside Look at Bear's Collapse - Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine
- The Bear Stearns Bull - James Cramer, New York Magazine
- Bear Stearns and the Heavy Hand of the Fed - Steve Liesman, CNBC
- Dimon's Deal-Making Skills Questioned- David Weidner, MarketWatch