Alex Tabarrok echoes my sentiments here (MR) when I saw this article (WSJ) this morning. I definitely had an Ayn Rand flashback to Atlas Shrugged. I've had a lot of those in the last nine months.
The "Break up the Banks Delusions" (Salon.com)
Today in Give-and-Take- the good: Leading Economic Indicators Rise More than Expected (Bloomberg) and the bad: Weekly unemployment claims rise (Calculated Risk)
..AND a fantastic piece on incentives amongst traders (Adam Pasick-Reuters)