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Nov 04 2008 12:43am EDT

Extra Credit, Monday Edition

Itau to Buy Unibanco in $12.5 Billion Agreed Takeover: For anybody like me who's been following Brazilian banking for years, this is huge.

Hedge Funds: The Future: As seen by Paul Wilmott.

The Mythology Of Credit Default Swaps

Crisis management: A Q&A I had with Bill Rhodes of Citibank. "There were lessons learned in both the Latin American debt crisis and the Asian financial crisis. Why didn’t policymakers think to look at these, instead of relearning everything again? Why didn’t anyone bother looking at some of our experiences? That’s part of the problem."

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