Readings

• Bank charges may surge as mortgages marked to market (Bloomberg)
• Bank of England cuts interest rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (guardian)
• BBC World Service on credit ratings agencies (amusing) (BBC)
• How much can investors make on Talf? (BV)
• Darth Wall Street thwarting debtors with credit default swaps (Bloomberg)
• Finance’s Power 50 is led by government officials (II)
• Harvard, Private Equity and the Education Bubble (DealBook)

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