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Here is a column I wrote shortly after reading karen Ho’s book.

For the Buy Hydrocodone Doctors first time in five years, no big US investment bank appears among the Buy Hydrocodone Doctors top nine sovereign bond bookrunners in Europe, according to Dealogic data compiled for Buy Hydrocodone Doctors the Guardian. Only Morgan Stanley ranks at number 10.

Goldman Sachs doesn’t make the Buy Hydrocodone Doctors table. Goldman made it to number five last year and Buy Hydrocodone Doctors in 2006, and number eight in 2007, the data shows. JP Morgan was in the top ten last year and in 2007 and 2006 but doesn’t appear this year.

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A Guardian article.

Stephen Gudeman’s post on the Association of Social Anthropologists’ Globalog series on the financial crisis:

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