Let the Fratricide Begin (WashPost, Dana Milbank)

"As Michael Moore threatens moderates, Democrats begin tearing each other apart over health care." (WashPost's straight news story here.)

'08 rise in NYC rich club (NY Post)

"The jump was part of a rapidly growing income gap across the country that saw middle- and low-income families get pinched more by the recession."

Mixed Data Reflect Fragility of Economic Recovery (WSJ)

Are We Poised for Another Great Bull Market? (Seeking Alpha, Babak)

Probably not. "At best, we are going through a cyclical bull market — otherwise known as a bear market rally."

Moral decay? Or deregulation? (NYT, Paul Krugman)

A big dose of fluoride squirted on David Brooks's "moral decay."

Cyber Gangs Hit Healthcare Providers (WashPost)

Yet another threat to health care that's even bigger than the Democrats' infighting: Thieves, believed to be based in Eastern Europe, defrauding U.S. nonprofits that serve the disabled, uninsured, and kids. Another health threat from overseas, but this one affecting people from overseas: "The 'keister bomb' is the newest terror threat."

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Hardly anything other than a swine flu pandemic could be as frightening as the graphic the Times ran the other day on whom Tim Geithner regularly met with when he was president of the New York Fed.

The graphic, accompanying a story that parsed Geithner's schedule from those days, is so heavy with Goldman Sachs characters that you have to wonder whether Geithner is any change at all from former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.

The polite way of putting it is this, from the Times story:

Not exactly polite, but more charitable than simply listing the people in the accompanying "Mr. Geithner's World" graphic:

• Robert Rubin: ex-exec at Citigroup, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions; Clinton adviser, key foe of Glass-Steagall.

• Stephen Friedman: retired chairman of Goldman Sachs, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions; current chair of a private-equity (leveraged buyout) firm.

• E. Gerald Corrigan: a managing director at Goldman, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions.

• Charles Prince: ex-CEO at Citigroup, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions.

• Joshua Steiner: co-founder of Quadrangle Group, the investment firm ensnared in the Hevesi kickback scandal and now banned from making new investments in N.Y. state and city pension funds. Quadrangle co-founder Steven Rattner is head of Obama's auto task force.

• Jeff Immelt: CEO of shaky GE, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions.

• Sandy Weill: Ex-CEO of Citigroup, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions; pushed for Geithner to become Citi's CEO.

• Jerry Speyer: Founding chairman of Tishman Speyer real-estate conglom, whose 2007 deal with Lehmann, backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, helped lead to Lehmann's demise.

• Lloyd Blankfein: Current CEO of Goldman, which has benefitted from Geithner's actions.

• Jamie Dimon: CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which bought WaMu and Bear Stearns last fall with the with the Fed's help and got bailout money that it now wants to use to buy toxic assets. Oh, and JPMorgan is now enmeshed in the Madoff scandal even more heavily than other banks. HedgeWeek reports:

David Kellerman, the acting CFO of Freddie Mac, has committed suicide, according to breaking reports.

Kellerman, who was only 41, was found dead at his home in suburban D.C. Few details are available at this second, but the AP says TV outlet WUSA says his wife told cops it was a suicide.

It's early days, but adding to the mystery at least right now is that Kellerman was named the acting chief financial officer only last September, when the government-sponsored mortgage lender was placed under conservatorship. So he wasn't one of the goniffs who brought Freddie to its knees.