Some of the more interesting and important items for April 14th :

• The Real Housewives of Wall Street | Rolling Stone Politics – America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fighters, DEA agents, wheat subsidies and Medicare, plus pensions and bennies for that great untamed socialist menace called a unionized public-sector workforce that Republicans are always complaining about. According to popular legend, we're broke and in so much debt that 40 years from now our granddaughters will still be hooking on weekends to pay the medical bills of this year's retirees from the IRS, the SEC and the Department of Energy.
• PC shipments continue to slip in first quarter – MarketWatch – SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Personal computer shipments slipped in the first quarter of 2011, as the industry’s growth rate slowed following robust gains over the past year, according to industry reports released Wednesday.
• Senate Panel Says Goldman Misled Clients, Lawmakers on CDOs – Bloomberg – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) misled clients and Congress about the firm’s bets on securities tied to the housing market, the chairman of the U.S. Senate panel that investigated the causes of the financial crisis said.
• Apple Is Said to Ready Sale of White IPhone After 10-Month Wait – Bloomberg – Apple Inc. (AAPL) will start selling a white version of its iPhone 4 in the next few weeks, following a delay of 10 months, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
• Singapore Allows More Currency Gains as Growth Accelerates – Bloomberg – Singapore’s economy grew more than twice the pace economists estimated in the first quarter and the central bank said it would allow further gains in the currency in the third tightening of monetary policy in a year.
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