Topic of the Day: The Federal Reserve
The Usual Fare
- US is not AAA in new Chinese-made ratings — Shanghai Daily
- BBC News – Santander buys SEB’s German banking operations
- Wirtschaftskrise: Im angeschlagenen Spanien schwindet die Hoffnung – WELT ONLINE
- Tremble, Banks, Tremble | The New Republic
- Essay – Hayek – The Back Story – NYTimes.com
- BP in talks with Apache on Prudhoe Bay assets: report | Reuters
- Crisis Awaits World’s Banks as Trillions Come Due – NYTimes.com
- FT.com – G20 looks to Beijing to drive global growth
- FT.com – Wolfgang Münchau – Even eurozone optimists are not optimistic
- Deutschland über alles does not mean a trickledown recovery in EMU – Telegraph
- PIIGS may yet fly, but not while they’re trapped in this rickety eurozone – Telegraph
- Little ‘appetite’ for new stimulus, Obama adviser says – CNN.com
- World Cup final: Holland v Spain – as it happened | Scott Murray | Football | guardian.co.uk
- Paul the ‘psychic’ octopus wins again in World Cup final | Football | The Guardian
- Calculated Risk: How Large is the Outstanding Value of Sovereign Bonds?
- Arid Australia Turns to Desalination, at a Cost – NYTimes.com
- Lacking All Conviction – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
- FT.com – US stimulus shifts to infrastructure spending
- Econbrowser: Who’s buying all that debt?
- Baltic Dry Index: 14-Monats-Tief
- Bronte Capital: Bank of America comes clean – well sort of …
- Trending Toward Deflation – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
- FT.com / Books – Why the west faces a harsher future