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Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Buffett’s big weekend. After grousing over onerous Dodd-Frank rules taking swaps out of insured banks…banks take many swaps out of banking units to preserve capital. Grantham sees a bubble. Homes are good at producing housing services, not … Read more
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