Breakfast Briefing: Bullish Ratio, Census, IRS, Banking Sector

• IRS to Boost Oversight of Paid Tax Preparers - online.wsj
• Employment Week: Census and ISM - calculatedriskblog
• Eric Schmidt Seems Concerned Obama Is Screwing Up The Country - businessinsider
• Record Bullish Ratio - ritholtz
• Auto industry hopes for a better 2010 - Jan. 4, 2010 - money.cnn

• Banking Sector Remains (literally) Unchanged - ritholtz
• Move Your Money From Big Banks To Small Ones - consumerist
• Retirement planning second on list of coming decade's top industries - investmentnews
• Robert Rubin'ss absurd economic recommendations - creditwritedowns
• Oil Prices Push Above $81 per Barrel - calculatedriskblog

• Incapital's Ricketts gets creative with Cubs debt - investmentnews
• Attention, Wal-Mart Shoppers (and Shareholders) - fool
• Google Finally Beats Apple (AAPL, GOOG) - fool
• The Fed Still Doesn't Know How To Get Rid Of Excess Liquidity - ritholtz
• IRS Can Of Whoopass On Paid Tax Preparers - consumerist

• Discount broker slapped with triple damages in rare elder abuse award - investmentnews
• ISM Manufacturing Index shows Expansion in December - calculatedriskblog
• Effective Immediately... - zerohedge
• USDA Not So Sure Ammonia-Injected Beef Is Safe - consumerist
• Manufacturing Sector Continues to Expand - econompicdata

• Bankruptcies in 2009 Total 1.4 million, Up 32 Percent: Report - cnbc
• Cavuto: The Real Hangover Has Just Begun - foxbusiness
• Northrop Grumman to Move Headquarters to D.C. - foxbusiness
• Fewer M&A deals in 2009, but big gain in assets acquired - investmentnews
• Selling This Stock Cost Me a Fortune - fool