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Government shutdown


Linkfest: Bank legal payouts pick up; Weak jobs seen keeping Fed on QE path; Shutdown, Obamacare claimed to impact job market

Today’s most shared: Banks shield swaps from prying eyes, seek to sidestep regs as legal payouts climb… China banks hike loan reserves ahead of expected defaults… Politifact calls out Bartiromo on part-time employment claims… White… READ MORE ›

Linkfest: Taper timing; Shutdown post-mortems; Naming names in FX probe

Today’s most shared: The strange case of the fired Fed examiner… Naming names as FX investigation heats up… Fed taper timing… Nobel foundation could have used advice from Shiller and Fama.

1. Anatomy of a shutdown
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Linkfest: The cost of government dysfunction; Regulators defriend Dimon, Buffett defends; Athlete futures

Today’s most shared: Counting the cost of shutdown showdown… Fantasy football IPOs… Development hardball and extreme land-grabbing in Shanghai’s French Concession…Regulators unconvinced of Dimon’s greatness, desirability of banks’ physical commodities business… declining labor mobility.

1. This fiscal fight… READ MORE ›

Linkfest: House GOP balks at Senate deal; A financial markets Nobel; China steel binge resumes

Today’s most shared: Tea party faction dislikes compromise deal…Steel boom suggests China maybe not rebalancing so much…Shiller of ‘irrational exuberance’ fame shares Nobel with unrepentant housing-bubble-denying Fama (plus Hansen)…the Nobel committee could have just used Niall Ferguson’s Twitter… READ MORE ›

Talks Are Open, but America is Still Shut Down

Editor’s note: the daily Linkfest is experimenting with new formats, coincident with the relaunch of Streeteye, the front page of the internet for serious investors. We’d love your feedback! Tweet @Streeteye or comment below if you have… READ MORE ›