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  • Goldman Sachs sour about Rolling Stone sledge

    New York Post

    Senior executives at Goldman Sachs are reportedly pissed off about a 12-page Rolling Stone story highlighting the company’s uncanny ability to make reams of cash in bad economic times. Or maybe it’s just because the Jonas Brothers scored the magazine cover.

Economy

  • Not so fast, BRW

    Crikey / 0

    Would the BRW ‘Fast Starters’ list look so robust if they hadn’t used data that was a year old — taken from before the financial crisis hit? Crikey intern Sophie Tarr investigates.

Markets

  • Resources: who’s using what?

    Mint

    Which country will be the first to run out of oil or natural gas? Which will be forced into building more environmentally friendly transportation systems? Mint’s map of the world’s resources and where they’re being consumed.

  • Overnight market sell-off a sign of things to come?

    Crikey / 0

    Even when the economic wheel turns, real financial and economic stability returns and consumers resume spending and companies investing, the legacy of the crisis should act as a throttle on growth.

  • Greenland’s energy sector set to explode?

    RealClearWorld

    Although Greenland largely subsists on its fishing market, the country is a treasure trove of resources — from oil and gas to uranium, molybdenum, platinum, coal, gold and diamonds — just waiting to be tapped.

Players

  • Does Bernanke deserve a second term?

    The American

    Ben Bernanke’s stint as Federal Reserve chairman has been checkered at best, says Desmond Lachman — surely there are better candidates out there?

  • Michael Jackson’s Estate: saved by the Beatles

    Time

    It was the best business deal he ever did — Michael Jackson’s 50% stake in Sony/ATV, which comes with about 250 Beatles songs, should save his estate from bankruptcy.

  • Madoff’s life in the clink

    Wall Street Journal Law blog

    A great interview Alan Ellis, lawyer and author of the Federal Prison Guidebook about his surprise at Bernie Madoff’s 150-year sentence — and what happens next.