Break it Up? - Bank of America ’s Lewis Says U.S. Should Consider Splitting Bank Functions - By Lizzie O’Leary and Christine Harper -  Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis said today the U.S. should consider separating commercial lenders from investment banking activities. - Bloomberg  -  a return to the Glass-Steagall Act?
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Chart of the Day - For some perspective into the all-important US real estate market, today’s chart illustrates the US median price of a single-family home over the past 39 years.
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Newest Fraud - Torching your car - Fraud in the desert and the “Disabler” - Tim Iacono - … In Signs of Stress, Fraud on […]

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Banks and TARP:
  
Should Healthy Banks Give Back Their TARP Funds? by Felix Salmon  - … Rick Newman, for one, thinks so. But even he is alive to the downside, as explained by Andrew Ross Sorkin: - … If Goldman succeeds in returning our money, it could put pressure on other banks to give their […]

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More on NCUA’s non disclosure of info in putting 2 huge credit unions into conservatorship:  A Letter to NCUA, re: The Math on the $9 Billion Credit Loss Estimate - An Open Letter To: NCUA Board Members  From: Chip Filson  - CreditUnions.com 
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DOUBLE-DIPPERS - CITI, BOFA BUYING BACK LAUNDERED LOANS AT LOWER RATES - … Both […]

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27 Videos from the past week - compiled by Prieur du Plessis - always excellent. -  Click Investment Postcards from Cape Town to see all 27 videos summarized.
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I found the video below on Plessis’s site, is outstanding and a great explanation of Quantitative Easing in simple terms - worth watching. -  It […]

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Toro makes a call - End of the Housing Bubble Collapse Nears - We here at Running of the Bulls are making the call that the decline in housing prices on a national level is nearing an end.  We have written articles making the case here, here, and here.  No, we are not saying the […]

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