A number of the following posts are fairly controversial and I present them not so much because I agree, but rather because the ideas presented or the news is worthy of your attention. I highly recommend the Willem Buiter piece at the end. I will address it in greater detail at a later date.
Regulators probed Madoff eight times over 16 years: report – Reuters
Franken to be declared Senate victor in Minnesota – Reuters
Denmark’s resilient mortgage market: A slice of Danish – Economist
Re-training America’s workers: The people puzzle – Economist
Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse – Barry Ritholtz
Bad — and Good – News for China Power Utilities – Barrons
Unemployment insurance: A safety net in need of repair
Central banks and financial crises: Lessons from recent Latin American history
Rethinking urbanisation – VoxEU
Economists behaving badly – Paul Krugman
China Drills in East China Sea, Breaching Gas Pact, Sankei Says – Bloomberg
China’s demise much exaggerated – Telegraph
Can the US economy afford a Keynesian stimulus? – Willem Buiter