links for 2010-01-22

President Obama: "Never Again Will the American Taxpayer be Held Hostage by a Bank that is 'Too Big to Fail'" | The White House This morning the President proposed what he called "the Volcker Rule," named after one of the fiercest advocates for financial reform over the past year, and who has been particularly focused … Read more

links for 2010-01-21

Kass: Sell the News | Market Features | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com The conventional view is that the Massachusetts election result will kill health reform and, thus, is bullish for health care stocks and for the market as a whole, but, for several reasons, I think that the crowd could prove mistaken … Read more

links for 2010-01-20

F.H.A. to Raise Standards for Mortgage Insurance – NYTimes.com The Federal Housing Administration, which is supporting the housing market by insuring thousands of new mortgages every day, is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is tightening standards. (tags: housing FHA mortgage) King Says ‘Low’ U.K. Money Supply to Curb Inflation (Update1) – BusinessWeek Bank … Read more

links for 2010-01-19

Why America and China will clash – FT.com / Columnists / Gideon Rachman The reason that the Google case is so significant is because it suggests that the assumptions on which US policy to China have been based since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 could be plain wrong. The US has accepted – even welcomed … Read more

links for 2010-01-18

Stimulus program to weatherize homes has a cold start  | ajc.com Months after millions of federal stimulus dollars started pouring in to Georgia to weatherize the homes of low-income people, state contractors have done little of the work. (tags: Georgia govt_stimulus weatherization)