International Tension
- FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf – Currencies clash in the new age of beggar-my-neighbour
- Retaliation is Likely – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Anne Applebaum – China’s quiet power grab
- Plaza II is the wrong approach for global rebalancing | Vox
European Austerity
- BBC News – EU austerity drive country by country
- BBC News – Brussels braces for huge anti-austerity protest
- Spain Girds for First General Strike in 8 Years to Protest Cuts – Bloomberg
The Usual Fare
- Commodities: Gold Vaults to New High – WSJ.com
- FT.com – Junk buying fuels ‘yield chasing’ fears
- James K. Galbraith – The Future of the American Economy
- FT.com – Posen calls for QE to be resumed
- FT.com – Brazil: Great expectations
- Economist’s View: "The Great Income Shift"
- The Untold Story: How WaMu Execs Fought Government Seizure – Deal Journal – WSJ
- The Three Big Dangers For China’s Real Estate Sector – Forbes.com
- FT Alphaville » ‘D Day’ for Anglo Irish
- Confidence slips to lowest since February | Reuters
- Alpha-Beta Bifurcation and Emerging Markets_English_Caixin
Politics
- BBC News – Business worried about Miliband tax and wage calls
- Tea-Party Movement Gains Force – WSJ.com
- Anti-outsourcing bill fails in Senate
- FT.com – EU faces threat to migration principle
- Republicans Aim Low With Pledge to Undo Obama: Caroline Baum – Bloomberg
- Biden warned Obama during Afghan war review not to get ‘locked into Vietnam’
- WH messaging about its base – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
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