Topic of the Day – Germany: austerity, social unrest, protectionism and gold bunkers
- Schwere Krawalle in Berlin: Zehntausende protestieren gegen Sparpaket | FTD.de
- Krisenanlage: Banken bauen Goldbunker | FTD.de
- FT Alphaville – Tracy Alloway – Germany’s rebalancing act
- Marginal Revolution: Getting tough with Germany?
The Usual Fare
- Everybody’s Business – The High Cost of Loyalty to Your Cellphone – NYTimes.com
- Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid – Washington Post
- FT.com – Belgium elections show rise in separatism
- Mortgages – Study Says Math Deficiencies Increase Foreclosure Risk – NYTimes.com
- State Wants to Borrow From Pension Fund, to Pay the Fund – NYTimes.com
- A Dash of Insight: Weighing the Week Ahead: Negativity Prevails
- The Cognitive Capture Dilemma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Fanatic Cook: Highest Rate Of Child Poverty In 20 Years
- FT Alphaville – Gwen Robinson – China overheating?
- The Golden Mean – Interview with John Hathaway – Barrons.com
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- Japan will mit Sparen beginnen (Wirtschaft, Aktuell, NZZ Online)
- Are CoCos from Cloud Cuckoo-Land? | vox
- Housing Bubble Down Under | Mises Economics Blog
- After Europe, does Keynesian economics make sense? – Fortune
- Matching Narrative to Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Employment, Interest, and Money: Second Dip?
- Frankreich will Defizit um 100 Milliarden Euro senken (Wirtschaft, Aktuell, NZZ Online)