News Links 12/30/2011

• The Ongoing MF Global DISASTER – MarketTicker Forums

  tags: brokers bankruptcy

• What has the ECB done in the crisis? The role of TARGET balances | Martin Wolf’s Exchange | Economic commentary from the Financial Times – FT.com

  tags: ecb crisis liquidity banks

• Gonzalo Lira: A Run On The Global Banking System—How Close Are We?

  tags: bank-run

• U.S. Manufacturing Gains Jobs as Wages Retreat – NYTimes.com

  tags: jobs wages manufacturing

• Soros Sees Gold Prices on Brink of Bear Market – Bloomberg

  tags: gold investing soros

• Verizon Wireless Adds $2 ‘Convenience’ Fee To Make Your Life More Inconvenient – The Consumerist

  tags: mobile

• Spain’s economy worsening, says central bank – Telegraph

  tags: spain economy

• Matt Stoller: Why Ron Paul Challenges Liberals « naked capitalism

  tags: ron-paul politics

• Thatcher Cabinet Discussed Jailing U.K. Reporters Over 1981 Riot Coverage – Bloomberg

  tags: freedom britain history media protest

• Macro and Other Market Musings: The Market Monetarist, MMT, and Austrian Lovefest

  tags: monetarism economics

• Ron Paul slams Barack Obama on drone strikes – James Hohmann – POLITICO.com

  tags: ron-paul freedom military obama

• HOW TO: Move Your Domain Name Account

  tags: internet dns

• Apple Seen Hurting Shareholders With Jobs’s Thermonuclear Patent War: Tech – Bloomberg

  tags: apple google android mobile

• Here’s the Sexual Harassment Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD

  tags: technology executives

• Fachkräfte: Österreich wirbt um hochqualifizierte Super-Migranten – Nachrichten Wirtschaft – WELT ONLINE

  tags: austria immigration jobs

• Sozialer Abstieg: Jeder vierte Arbeitslose rutscht direkt in Hartz IV – Nachrichten Wirtschaft – WELT ONLINE

  tags: poverty germany jobs

• Le Crédit Mutuel se renforce en Belgique en achetant Citibank Belgium – lesoir.be

  tags: citigroup belgium mergers banks

• BBC News – Japan’s Nikkei at lowest year-end level since 1982

  tags: japan stocks

• HSBC China PMI Contracts for Second Successive Month | Global Macro Monitor

  tags: china manufacturing data economy

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