Finance and Economy
- Euro Proving No Reserve Asset as Central Banks Shift – Bloomberg.com
- Building society lending slumped by 50% in 2009 | Money | guardian.co.uk
- Hussman Funds – Weekly Market Comment: Reported Earnings versus "Owner Earnings"
- Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs ‘expecting $100 million bonus’ – Times Online
- Oil demand has peaked in developed world: IEA
- Why Are We Still in a Recession? The Shape of the Crisis and "Too-Big-to-Fail" – Brad DeLong
- Econbrowser: Federal Debt: The Time Series
- RBA on housing: told you so | House prices | Interest rates
- Banks May Get Help to Escape Proposed Limits on Risk – NYTimes.com
- Pennsylvania Capital Should Weigh Bankruptcy, Controller Says – Bloomberg.com
- Michael Hudson: Mr. Obama’s Junk Economics: Democrats Relinquish the Populist Option to the Republicans
- Econbrowser: John Cochrane on the credit crisis
- Strategies – How Political Leanings Can Affect Investing – NYTimes.com
- 1929-32 Market Decline Has Almost Been Repeated — John Lounsbury
- Overseas Consumers to the Rescue – WSJ.com
- Deficit Hawk Orszag Plays Against Type – WSJ.com
- Drinking poison to quench thirst | China International Business
- Argentine Central Bank President Quits Over Reserves – Bloomberg.com
- Paul Craig Roberts: Rule by the Rich
- Populism – Simon Johnson – The Baseline Scenario
- bubbleinfo.com » HELOC Study
- Fannie, Freddie Get Tough With Banks – WSJ.com
- Job offers-to-seekers ratio averaged record low 0.47 in ’09 | The Japan Times Online
- Commodities Set for Biggest Drop in 13 Months on Demand Outlook – Bloomberg.com
- BBC News – Demand for credit back on the rise
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Today’s bread & circus feature: Jon Stewart – CNBC Financial Advice