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        The Week’s Best Business Longreads: Business Beast’s Picks for Jan. 5, 2013

        Tom Wolfe returns to Wall Street and America’s banks are still entirely mysterious, even to the most sophisticated investors. The Daily Beast brings you the best in business and finance journalism for the week of January 5, 2013.

        Updated Jul. 12, 2017 1:55AM ET / Published Jan. 05, 2013 11:05AM ET 

        Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, via Getty

        What’s Inside America’s Banks?Frank Partnoy and Jessie Eisinger, The Atlantic A law professor and journalist go spelunking in the annual report of one of America’s most successful, conservative banks. What do they find? It’s nearly impossible to tell what risks banks have buried in their balance sheets.

        The Volcker WayAustan Goolsbee, Foreign AffairsThe former Obama administration chief economist writes that the legendary Federal Reserve chair is “one of the last remaining heroes of modern finance.”

        Basel Becomes Babel as Conflicting Rules Undermine SafetyYalman Onaran, Bloomberg NewsThe most recent set of global banking regulations, known as Basel II, is widely seen as one of the culprits for the financial crisis. So far, Basel III isn’t looking much better.

        The Great Canadian Maple Syrup HeistBrendan Borrell, Bloomberg Businessweek Québec dominates the world’s maple syrup market. It even has a “Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.” And 6 million pounds of it disappeared.

        Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal MultipliersOlivier Blanchard and Daniel Leigh, International Monetary Fund

        Warning: this is a long, technical research paper about macroeconomic forecasting. But it’s also an implicit admission by the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund that they’ve been getting it wrong for years.

        Eunuchs of the UniverseTom Wolfe, Newsweek

        America’s foremost chronicler of Wall Street excess returns to the world of finance to find the masters of the universe reduced to something less.

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