Will the day come soon again when the economic news is more upbeat? Here’s hoping it does.
The Usual Fare
- Anticipating the End of a Weak Recovery | Credit Writedowns
- Does History Repeat, Rhyme or Just Have Coincidences? | John Lounsbury
- No British banks in top 10 of world’s safest financial institutions | Business | The Observer
- Shops are closing on the high street. And the north is hardest hit | Zoe Wood | Business | The Observer
- Tech Stocks’ Payout Problem – Barrons.com
- Tech Stocks Are at Their Lowest Valuations Since 1991 – Barrons.com
- Once-trendy Melrose Avenue shopping area losing its cachet – latimes.com
- Mortgage arrears as high as 45pc at subprime lender Start – Independent.ie
- Ueber Ideologie Oekonomie und die Apathie der amerikanischen Oeffentlichkeit – Artikel – chaostheorien.de
Politics
- A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists – NYTimes.com
- Nicholas Kristof – Is This America? – NYTimes.com
- Gingrich: Obama’s ‘Kenyan, anti-colonial’ worldview – The Corner – National Review Online
- The Hispanicisation of America: The law of large numbers | The Economist
- Maureen Dowd – When Peggy Left Barry – NYTimes.com
- Bob Herbert – Paying the Price – NYTimes.com
Just for Fun