Here’s what caught my eye today:
• New York Fed Chairman’s Ties to Goldman Raise Questions (WSJ)
• How banks got TBTF: Monsters, Inc. (The New Yorker)
• U.S. Stocks Gain as S&P 500 Almost Erases Year-to-Date Decline (Bloomberg)
• What Banks Are Still Missing: Trust (Time)
• Sharpest U.S. Recession Since 1938: -1.9 Percent of GDP (PPI)
• Stress Tests Echo ’30s Rescue, So Says Ahamed of ‘Lords of Finance’ (Bloomberg)
• Tests of Banks May Bring Hope More Than Fear (NYT)
• CRUDE FUTURES FINISH AT A FIVE-MONTH HIGH: $54.47 (MarketWatch)
• April 2009 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (Federal Reserve)
• Lending Standards in Mortgage Markets May 2009 (St. Louis Fed)
• Best and Worst Cities for Jobs (Forbes)
• The End of Personal Finance: Decades of advice turn out to be so much garbage (Slate)
• Chart of the Day: Private Construction Spending (Calculated Risk)
• Blackberry outsells iPhone in Q1 (C/NET)
• Bigger Amazon Kindle For Periodicals Is Days Away (Channel Web)
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