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Tom Friedman of The New York Times was on Charlie Rose last night discussing his recent trip to China and developments in the Middle East. Here is a direct link.

Last night on Charlie Rose, I caught this segment with Bill Browder, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management. He describes a deeply disturbing portrait of corruption and injustice in Russia today that extends from the Russian mafia through the police and courts. Lest we forget why a fair and impartial judicial system are paramount in protecting individual rights. Here is a direct link.

These are all steps needed in order to cut back the excess of finance and move the banking harpies back into the box supporting, rather than dominating and imploding, the real economy.

William Cohan, author of “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World” and a Bloomberg View columnist, talks about Wall Street compensation and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Here is a direct link.