- Obama Gives Himself a B-Plus — Political Wire
- British Airways Cabin Crew to Stage Christmas Strike – Bloomberg.com
- Paul Krugman – Disaster and Denial – NYTimes.com (On deregulation and the inability to use facts to sway partisans because of ideology)
- Marshall Auerback: Obama’s New-Found Populism: All Hat, No Cattle
- Google to Start Selling Own Phone Without Wireless Partner by Next Year – WSJ.com
- FT.com – Eurozone industrial output falls
- FT.com – Top bankers destroy value, study claims
- FT.com – Austria nationalises troubled bank HGAA
- British Airways Pension Shortfall Widens to 3.7 Billion Pounds – Bloomberg.com
- Exxon Mobil moves into natural gas with XTO Energy buyout |Business |guardian.co.uk
Distraction of the Day: Deer with dangerously high Christmas spirit
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