Felix Salmon

Microlender Accion USA Avoids ‘Antipoverty’ Pitch — American Banker

Online Robbery: Hackers Steal $50,000. Bank Says ‘Tough Luck’ — MoneyWatch

Economists’ Hubris — SSRN

Many Happy Returns: Remittances and their Impact — Immigration Policy

The mother of all bank re-securitisations — Alphaville

The Big Lie About the ‘Life of the Mind’ — Chronicle

The advantage to sailing the open sea: “there’s so much less to bump into” — Smiling Footprints

Comments are the new “to be sure” graf — Gawker

The Tobin Tax gets the Richard Curtis rebranding treatment — Guardian

Iceland hires the one and only Lee Buchheit, of CGSH — AmLaw

Vote for the Dynamite Prize in Economics, for the economists who contributed most to the Global Financial Collapse — RWER