Links: 2009-02-03

Twitter, Communication, and My Intermittent Inner Luddite – naked capitalism (Yves Smith doesn’t like the always on culture. Neither do I. I use all the new media but I have similar misgivings about them)

Fin24.com – SA house prices still falling

FT.com – China to go on European spending spree

Dublin ‘worst value’ in Europe for property investment – Independent.ie

Let banks fail, says Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz – Telegraph

Protectionism: The ‘Crack Cocaine’ of Economics Is On The Rise – The Ticker (usnews.com)

RBA lops rates by 1% to 3.25%; Reserve Bank of Australia; interest rates

Emily Yoffe – Tom Daschle on the Gold Standard – washingtonpost.com

BBC NEWS | Business | EU attacks ‘Buy American’ clause

financial newsJoseph Stiglitz