The US
- Fed Won’t Join Bank Supreme Court Appeal on Loan Disclosures – Bloomberg
- FT Alphaville » Long Room » No longer in suspense on the HAMP second lien program
- FT Alphaville » Smithers vs Wolf
- Are Bloggers Breeding Negativity? – CNBC.com
- Roubini: States Are Doomed – CNBC
- FT Alphaville » The AIG Wars
- Mitch McConnell: The Hell With The Economy | Capital Gains and Games
- BankUnited to file for IPO this week: sources| Reuters
- What’s really behind that $1.3 trillion deficit? – Justin Fox
- Die wunderbare Welt der Wirtschaft!: Wow! Goldman Sachs erhöht Schätzung für QE II auf 2 Billionen!
- EconomPic: On the Value of High Yield
- Why Has America’s Economic Recovery Stalled? – Project Syndicate
- Treasury Sells Bonds With a Negative Yield – NYTimes.com
- Economics: Should the government encourage mortgage principal write-downs? | The Economist
- More Democracy, More Incarceration – Reason Magazine
- Steven Rattner and the rescue of General Motors : The New Yorker
- How Sarah Palin Could End Up As President in 2012 — New York Magazine
Europe
- Greece Likely to Default Within Three Years, El-Erian Says – Bloomberg
- Third quarter GDP: what the economists say | Business | guardian.co.uk
- Anglo offer on subordinated debt ‘tantamount to default’ – Irish, Business – Independent.ie
- BBC News – Savers ‘losing £12bn in interest’
Emerging Markets
- A Step Away from the Wrong Direction – Morgan Stanley – Global Economic Forum
- Sizzling: Thai SET hits 14-year high | beyondbrics | FT.com
- Mexico: don’t leave us out of the currency war | beyondbrics | FT.com
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