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Just For Fun
- Liverpool transfer news: Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina are set use secret escape clauses to quit club in January – with Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal ready to pounce – News – MirrorFootball.co.uk
- Is Samsung making Google’s Nexus Two? – Technology, Business – Independent.ie
- Photos: Fall Colors — National Geographic
- How to Be an Effective Liar – Lifehacker
- Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart
Europe
- Arrastão: Qual é a autonomia das marionetas?
- Irish borrowing costs at new high – Irish, Business – Independent.ie
- ECB bought Irish bonds, traders say – Irish, Business – Independent.ie
- The World from Berlin: Germany’s Jobs Miracle is ‘Wobbly’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
- Santander profits hit by loan provisions – European, Business – Independent.ie
- The Interview: Tom Parlon, CIF chief – Business, Frontpage – Independent.ie
- FT.com – German unemployment drops below 3m
- BBC News – UK retail sales growth slowed in October, says CBI
- ¿Quiere una rentabilidad del 6% anual los próximos 100 años? – Valor Añadido – Cotizalia.com
- Tyska krav splittrar EU-toppmöte – DN.se
- El BBVA critica que las cajas con ayudas compitan perdiendo dinero · ELPAÍS.com
- Sarkozy’s Perfect Storm: French Fury Goes Beyond Pensions – SPIEGEL ONLINE
The US
- Who’s In Charge Here? Not The G20 « The Baseline Scenario
- U.S. lawyer forms foreclosure resistance movement | Reuters
- ‘Savage’ Austerity Is in U.S.’s Future, Buiter Says: Tom Keene – BusinessWeek
- Yglesias » FA Hayek, Statist
- Irvine Co. sees end of apartment rent cuts – Lansner on Real Estate : The Orange County Register
- FT Alphaville » Chart du jour: stocks since 1871
- States With the Best, and Worst, Business Tax Climates – NYTimes.com
- Primer on Austrian Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Econbrowser: Negative real interest rates
- Canada-style deficit reduction, ’90s-style, won’t work in US: Wells Fargo | FP Posted | National Post
- Prop Trader Wanted for Promising New Career Path: Matthew Lynn – Bloomberg
- Foreclosure Lawyers Go to Gardner’s Farm for Edge on Lenders – Bloomberg
Emerging Markets
- FT.com / Markets – China is key to next rally in gold prices
- For Five Years and Beyond, Minsheng Matters_English_Caixin
- FT.com / Asia-Pacific – S Korea considers more capital controls
- The Food Crisis of 2010 – The Daily Reckoning
Credit Writedowns
- The Land of the Rising Dollar | Credit Writedowns
- Currency tension will continue despite Geithner’s diplomacy | Credit Writedowns
- German budget austerity requirements divide EU summit | Credit Writedowns
- US jobless claims fall to lowest in three months | Credit Writedowns
- BBVA complains about subsidy for loss-making Spanish Cajas | Credit Writedowns