Finally the law goes after the criminal credit-ratingsmongers:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is launching an investigation into some of Wall Street’s top firms to determine whether they provided misleading information to credit rating agencies.
A total of eight firms are part of the probe, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse (CS), Citigroup, UBS, Credit Agricole and Merrill Lynch, which has since been acquired by Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500).
Schnews interviews Richard Stallman
Dry but fascinating: A history of attempted reforms of the House of Lords
Nature: Weird wonders lived past the Cambrian
The fossils prove that the famously bizarre creatures of the Cambrian (542 million to 488 million years ago) didn’t die out at the end of that period — something that fossil hunters had suspected, but could not back up with evidence until now.
Website sells crabs to angry lovers out for revenge
FT/Alphaville blog: Towards a United States of Europe – Are we witnessing the first steps toward a fiscal union in the eurozone?
One for Pseuds Corner – from the Advertising Age:
Gurus Should Spend Less Time Talking, More Time Listening : Passing of Gang Starr Iconoclast Brings Supposed Experts of Marketing Matters Into Sharp Relief
*facepalm*
That should be enough to be going on with.
