- Philly Fed factory activity at 4-1/2 year high | Reuters
- Democrats’ Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll – WSJ.com
- BBC News – Irish Republic out of recession as GDP grows
- BBC News – Citigroup shares sale planned by US government ‘halted’
- Why your boss is incompetent – life – 17 December 2009 – New Scientist
- Palin’s Favorable Up Slightly; Obama’s Holds Steady
- FT.com – John Gapper – How America let banks off the leash
- Howard Dean – Health-care bill wouldn’t bring real reform – washingtonpost.com
- Italian banks fear crunch from Basel II – Telegraph
- What’s Up with Citigroup? – James Kwak
- Don’t Worry About Greece – Simon Johnson
- Poll: Dissatisfaction could spell trouble for Democrats in 2010 — latimes.com
- Woods voted top athlete of decade by US editors – Golf – Yahoo! Sports
- Cheques are to be abolished – Telegraph