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Feb 20 2009 1:39am EDT

Extra Credit, Thursday Edition

More News From Mary Schapiro. Brace Yourself: "Honestly, is there any place on God's green earth where Mary Schapiro could have found an enforcement director other than one of the biggest multinational banks?"

Only losers get the foreclosure blues: On Rick Santelli's Chicago-school populism. See also Chittum.

Bloggingheads: Bank Nationalization: The NYT runs 5 minutes of me vs Jesse on the political feasibility of bank nationalization. The question of the day: does Jesse really want a new loan?

19/02/09 Editor's note: From the editor of World Finance, which just gave Allen Stanford its Man of the Year award: "It was a calculated editorial risk."

Stanford and drugs: an interesting coincidence: Stanford's head of security used to be head of the Miami DEA.

Not All Information Wants To Be Free: Shafer on the secrets of successful paysites.

Is Barclays on the brink of selling BGI? It's a jewel in the crown, but these days such jewels have a tendency to find themselves on the auction block. Ask anybody at the Rose Art Museum.

Budget to kick off health care rewrite: Peter Orszag as budget hero.

Better Living Through Cultural Innovation: "Cultural goods aren’t just a nice by-product of a modern economy. They’re the very justification for it."

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