- The Rise and Fall of Empires – Paul Kedrosky (cool visual)
- FT Alphaville – A Minskian roadmap to the next gold mania
- At Failed Banks, Post-Mortems Disclose Excessive, Yet Obvious, Risk – NYTimes.com
- Economic Perspectives from Kansas City: Should America Kowtow to China?
- FT.com – Fears of China property bubble
- The Ayn Rand revival | Jennifer Abel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- BBC News – Will Ferrell named ‘most overpaid film star’
- Obama’s Vietnam syndrome | The Japan Times Online
- FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Palin Calculus: A Rejoinder
- FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: 10 Reasons That Sarah Palin Could Win the Republican Nomination
- FT Alphaville – The return of capital controls, Indonesia edition
- Continuity You Can Believe In? (Voices for and against Obama’s econ policy.)
- oftwominds: The Fantasy of an Export-Led Recovery
- Paulson on Bank of America: Stock Could ‘Almost Double’ – MarketBeat – WSJ (He likes Citi too.)
- California faces a projected deficit of $21 billion — latimes.com
- The Financial Regulatory Chess Game, Arnold Kling | EconLog
Distraction of the Day: This cow thinks he is a dog