Assorted links

1. Download Free Banking in Britain, for free.  

2. The story of Culture11.

3. Felix Salmon and William Cohan, the guy who wrote the new Bear Stearns book, doing Bloggingheads.TV.

4. An Icelander, on Michael Lewis.

5. "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells lawmakers he wanted to sue
AIG to stop its bonus payments, but was told a lawsuit could end up
awarding the bonus recipients more in punitive damages." –story is here.

6. "A kind of CFTC-regulated Intrade."