- Loan servicers prepare to throw large sums at making “forced placed insurance” class actions go away [Kevin Funnell]
- How Are Small Banks Faring Under Dodd-Frank?
[Hester Peirce, Ian Robinson, Thomas Stratmann, Mercatus] - “How the Feds Can Take Even Legally Earned Bitcoins” [Peter Coy, Business Week]
- “No Shame Dept.: Lawyers Sue Over Practically Every Merger, Again” [Daniel Fisher]
- Brewster Kahle on Know Your Customer: “‘Bank Secrecy Act’ I suggest is a misnomer– it is more accurately the ‘Bank Surveillance Act’” [Kahle.org, earlier here, here, etc.]
- SEC to [over-]regulate business brokers under Dodd-Frank? [David Burton, Heritage]
- “Lawyer: How I Committed Insider Trading” [Bloomberg Law video via Prof. Bainbridge]
- “The Federal Reserve at 100″ [Cato Unbound; Gerald O'Driscoll, Lawrence White, Scott Sumner, Jerry Jordan]
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