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Features of the Week

It's been a while since we compiled a Friday Features linkfest, but we've got some great posts and news items to share with you today. Set a spell and enjoy our "Features of the Week".

1. Wikileaks confirms what we already know: Saudi oil reserves are overstated. (Al Jazeera).

2. Egypt unrest: how Mubarak's end came. (BBC News).

3. Mubarak resigns, but will he hold on to his estimated $70 billion stash? (FP blog).

4. The Perils of Intervention and a humbler American foreign policy. (C4Liberty).

5. An interview with Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian. (Der Spiegel).

6. Inflation is so much worse than we're told: Chris Martenson. (Financial Sense).

7. Q&A: Michael Lewis on the politicians that sank Ireland. (Vanity Fair).

8. Shades of 2006? Exchange fever takes hold as LSE-TMX merger followed quickly by NYSE- Deutsche Borse deal. (FT.com)

9. G.C. Selden trading psychology: hunches and gut feelings. (Tischendorf Letter).

10. Howard Lindzon interviews red-hot blogger, James Altucher. (StockTwits TV).

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Have a great weekend.
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