Finance and Economy
- Wall Street Makes It Hard to Earn Legal Living: Alice Schroeder – Bloomberg.com
- FT Alphaville – FDIC saves securitisation
- BBC NEWS – Russian economy growing strongly
- Henry Kaufman: The Real Threat to Fed Independence – WSJ.com
- Origins of the Federal Reserve – Murray N. Rothbard – Mises Institute (controversial but interesting)
- Richard Russell: Six reasons to invest in gold – Prieur du Plessis
- EconomPic: Just One Super-Secular Mean Reversion? (The 1970s was an aberration in rates)
- Paul Krugman – Free to Lose – NYTimes.com (It’s the automatic stabilizers in Germany.)
- FTD.de | Staatshilfe oder nicht?: Chaostage bei General Motors (With the FDP now in power instead of the SPD, GM is meeting a less-union friendly regime in Germany. Econ Minister Bruederle says point blank at about 6:30 here that no state aid is coming https://bit.ly/4csztT GM has misplayed its hand.)
- La eurozona sale de la recesion al crecer un 04 en el tercer trimestre (Spain is the only larger Eurozone economy not to show growth in Q3)
- Bush Warns of ‘Temptation’ to Abandon Free-Market System in Wake of Recession – FOXNews.com (no comment)
- Ten most troubled states in the U.S. – CNN Money
Politics
- More in U.S. Say Health Coverage Is Not Gov’t. Responsibility (it’s amazing how much the tide has turned here)
- FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Time for Dems to Panic?
- Obama’s Betrayals « Patrick J. Buchanan (more on civil liberties and war)
- U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits – NYTimes.com (Is this a smear job? Let’s see how it unfolds.)
- Lieberman Going Rogue (Again) – Swampland – TIME.com
Other
- Earthquakes Actually Aftershocks Of 19th Century Quakes; Repercussions Of 1811 And 1812 New Madrid Quakes Continue To Be Felt
- Jim Jubak – Has Apple blown its big chance? – MSN Money