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Wall Street's Refusal to Learn » Steve Pearlstein: You have to wonder what else has to go wrong, how much more wealth will need to be destroyed, before the people on Wall Street get the message that it's no longer business as usual. The latest outrage, of course, is over the $400 million in retention bonuses promised to those financial geniuses at AIG's Financial Products unit last year, months before the insurance giant was essentially taken over by the government in a bailout that already has required an injection of $170 billion in taxpayer money. — Washington Post

New Earmark Rules, Same Problems » For all of President Obama's promises of reform, a close look at just three of the more than 9,000 earmarks packed into the $410 billion spending bill that he signed last week shows just how hard it will be to clamp down on lawmakers' pet projects. — New York Times

Feds Target Madoff's Sons » Federal prosecutors yesterday for the first time staked claim to tens of millions of dollars lent by swindler Bernard Madoff to his two sons - and also now are targeting his wife's investments in real-estate ventures with owners of the Mets. Meanwhile, Florida property records show how Ruth Madoff obtained a homestead exemption on the couple's Palm Beach mansion in the months before her husband's arrest. — New York Post, Palm Beach Post

Vets Denounce Obama Billing Plan » An Obama administration proposal to bill veterans' private insurance companies for treatment of combat-related injuries has prompted veterans groups to condemn the idea as unethical and powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill to promise their opposition. — Washington Post

Uproar Over Silenced Drug Study » The industry-sponsored "Study 15" was a long-term trial of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The common wisdom in psychiatric circles was that newer drugs were far better than older drugs, but Study 15's results suggested otherwise. As a result, newly unearthed documents show, Study 15 suffered the same fate as many industry-sponsored trials that yield data drugmakers don't like: It got buried. — Washington Post

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