PK

Great tweet from Paul Kedrosky:

"markets rose 360 points in 32 minutes moments ago. doing that all day would mean a 4,387-point gain, getting us to oh ... eight weeks ago."

Banking

This is shaping up to be another interesting weekend in finance.

Life

Fucking incredible: http://images.google.com/images?q=w+eugene+smith&q=source%3Alife

This is the kind of thing that gets me choked up. I have no idea why Time couldn't host the photos and get the metadata into Google, but I'm so happy to see these available for the public to browse.