Has Deflation Arrived? - Stocks fell and treasuries soared today after Ben Bernanke called the economic outlook "unusually uncertain". ... The bond market is basically telling us that we are about to see a Japanese style deflationary collapse. ... - The Housing Time Bomb

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Is College Education The Next Bubble Set To Burst? - Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova - Clusterstock at Business Insider

Goldman Sachs's Alison Mass: I Work 70-80 Hours, I Have 2 Kids, I "Non-Profit," And I Work Out - Courtney Comstock - This is the speech Goldman's Alison Mass gave to NYU Stern this year at their inauguration summed up in one sentence:  "I Goldman, there for I am." - Clusterstock at Business Insider 

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more QE? - Economic Quagmire For The U.S. - Robert Lenzner - There is no policy panacea and no easy investment strategy. The punchbowl needs another spiking. - Forbes

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Goldman Slide Show - Hatzius: The U.S. Slowdown - Paul Kedrosky Infectious Greed Blog
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El-Erian: Get Used To Deleveraging, It's Going To Continue - Gregory White - thanks B - text summary and video - Money Game at Business Insider

9 Creative Ways Bernanke Could Stimulate The Economy Right Now - Joe Weisenthal - Is the Fed out of bullets?  Nah. As Mike O'Rourke of BTIG pointed out in his Thursday-night note, the only limit to the number of bullets is Bernanke's imagination.  So to help him, we're going to suggest various ways the Fed could stimulate the economy right now. - Money Game at Business Insider
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lots of logic - The Case for Deflation - Abigail Doolittle - ... I’ve been in the deflation camp for at least two years for one very simple reason: U.S. home prices have been on the decline since the third quarter of 2006. Put otherwise, the asset class at the eye of the financial crisis has been deflating for four years now.  And while it takes years for such a shift to drift into the everyday economy, I believe those signs are apparent today as slow-motion deflation is turning into real-time deflation. ... - Seeking Alpha

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(spend, spend, spend?) Robert Reich:  We're in a One-and-a-Half Dip Recession - Huffington Post

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Bernanke: Unemployment To Remain Above 7% Through 2012 - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Thursday that he expects the progress in reducing the nation's unemployment rate to be slower than originally projected.  The nation's top central banker repeated testimony from the day before, saying that the economic outlook was uncertain and that the unemployment rate would remain above seven percent through 2012. - RTT News