Sunday Morning Links

• David Lazarus writes on a couple in Long Beach, California struggling with mortgage payments having their house sold right from under them, without their knowledge, until the new owner showed up at the door, telling them to get lost.  From LA Times
• Austan Goolsbee to take over Christina Romer's recently vacated position as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.  I see this as good news, Goolsbee strikes me as a decent fellow.  From Ed Henry of CNN
• SEC considering new rules for HFT (High Frequency Trading).  Judging from what we have seen from Mary Schapiro in the past---she will talk this to death, talk this to death some more, and then DO NOTHING.  From Jesse Westbrook of Bloomberg
• China knows no other way to show its supposed place on the world stage then by throwing its elbows around and spitting on other people's turf.  From CNN
• Hey Steve Jobs, don't look over your shoulder now.  From Mike Swift of the Los Angeles Times
• Meg Whitman openly telling lies to win election in California.  From Seema Mehta of Los Angeles Times
• Ok, I know we have featured Jessica Alba here a lot as our Female Vision of the Day, but damn it, I can't stop myself.  Here she is again at LAX Airport.  Use the turquoise arrows in the upper right to scroll through thirteen picks in the gallery. From wwtdd.com