Weekend Reading: Bailout Blues

Good Sunday afternoon, and welcome to another edition of Weekend Reading. First, a look back at the week that just finished, then a look forward to the week ahead and then a summary of articles and papers worth reading.

It was another week of high volatility, risk and drama, including the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, but the major markets mostly ended higher. As I wrote here last week, given how the markets had begun ignoring bad news on a fairly consistent basis, an up week -- despite the bad news -- shouldn't have come as a huge surprise.

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