The Week in Review: Regulation, Bernanke and the Gradual Move Away from U.S. Equities

roger nusbaumRoger Nusbaum submits:

The week just ended was noteworthy for several reasons, most of which seemed to focus on political events. A Republican won an apparently important Senate seat, the healthcare bill seems to be struggling (even Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson…

Darrell Issa: The New York Fed’s Incomplete AIG Document Dump Puts The Bank Into Contempt

Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee (which is the committee that has the lead on all this AIG stuff) sent an angry letter to his counterpart Congressman Edolphus Towns, complaining about intransigence and footdragging at the…

It’s Over: Scott Brown Is The 3:1 Favorite Over Martha Coakley

The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecasting Model, which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, now regards Republican Scott Brown as a 74 percent favorite to win the Senate seat in Massachusetts on the basis of new polling…