News: 2013-11-13

Central banks

For Yellen, Fed’s Dual Mandate Guides Thinking – WSJ.com

Fed’s Lockhart Wants to See Higher Inflation Before Taper – Bloomberg

Fed’s Kocherlakota: Expectations of Fed Taper Are ‘Puzzling’ – Real Time Economics – WSJ

ekathimerini.com | ECB’s Asmussen, Nowotny see room to cut rates further

 

Markets

Ray Dalio, Hedge Fund Genius, Says Meditation Is Secret To His Success

London house prices rise 10pc amid bubble fears – Telegraph

Economist warns that Dublin property prices are being ‘talked up’ – Independent.ie

 

Economics

Aging Population Isn’t the Timebomb Many Make It Out to Be – Real Time Economics – WSJ

What Billionaire Ray Dalio Gets Wrong About Money – Businessweek

 

North America

Canada Lowers Deficit Outlook Before Surplus in 2015-16 – Bloomberg

Who’s Afraid of China?

What If China Dumps US Treasury Bonds? Paul Krugman inches toward MMT | New Economic Perspectives

U.S. to Be Top Oil Producer by 2015 on Shale, IEA Says – Bloomberg

Obama the Loner: The Trouble with the President’s Self-Reliant, Closed-Off Attitude | Vanity Fair

Why Obama is ‘spent’; why that’s bad for Hillary

National (US) Poll – November 12, 2013 – Obama Job Approval Drops To Lo | Quinnipiac University Connecticut

Congressional Approval Sinks to Record Low

Elizabeth Warren challenges Obama to break up ‘too-big-to-fail’ Wall St banks | World news | theguardian.com

Why it matters who regulates Wall Street | Heidi Moore | Comment is free | theguardian.com

 

Europe

EconoMonitor : EconoMonitor » Europe: The Failure of Internal Devaluation

ekathimerini.com | Greece posts primary budget surplus in Jan-Oct, in line with targets

ekathimerini.com | Greece and troika ‘miles apart’ on fiscal gap and measures, says EU official

UK jobless total falls by 48,000 and rate drops to 7.6%

Iceland’s capital controls | vox

 

Technology

‘We have on our hands a fully fledged bull market in technology’ – Telegraph

Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users | Ars Technica

Deutsche Telekom Pushes All German Internet Safe from Spying – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Apple OS X 10.9 Mavericks review | PC Pro

Motorola Plans Low-Cost Phone – Digits – WSJ

Hoping to avert “collision” with disaster, Microsoft retires SHA1 | Ars Technica

Did your Adobe password leak? Now you and 150m others can check | Technology | theguardian.com

Facebook requires some users to change password after Adobe hack | The Verge

The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA’s all-seeing machine | The Verge

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