North America
Canada’s property boom – FT.com
Best Buy’s holiday sales disappoint – FT.com
This doesn’t mean that GDP growth was poor. It means that margins were bad in retail. “Best Buy saw almost 30 per cent wiped off its market capitalisation on Thursday after the US electronics retailer reported that heavy discounting by its rivals had cut in to holiday sales. “
Prisoners of Profit – The Huffington Post
Consumer prices post largest gain in six months
Fed’s Williams Questions Whether QE Should Remain in Toolkit – Real Time Economics – WSJ
Bernanke Says QE Works While Posing No Immediate Bubble Risk – Bloomberg
Campaign Finance: Companies Give Millions to Political Nonprofits | TIME.com
Bitcoin
Beware the mania for Bitcoin, the tulip of the 21st century – FT.com
Sacramento Kings NBA Team to Accept Bitcoin – WSJ.com
Canada Says Bitcoin Isn’t Legal Tender – Real Time Economics – WSJ
Markets
How to detect a market bubble | Gavyn Davies
Citigroup Earnings Miss as Bond-Trading Slump Slows Turnaround – Bloomberg
BBC News – Goldman Sachs sees big quarterly profits fall
Goldman Sachs plots a way round EU bonus cap | Business | The Guardian
Europe
High street sales jump 2.6% in unexpected Christmas surge | Business | theguardian.com
BBC News – How to break up banks
Debunking the Idea that “Structural Reforms” Reduce Unemployment | naked capitalism
Income gap poses biggest threat to global community, warns WEF | Business | The Guardian
Why has Europe’s economy done worse than the US? | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Asia/Australia
China Mobile iPhone Packages Not Cheap – Digits – WSJ
More See Worrying Signs for Australia Economic Growth – Real Time Economics – WSJ
Technology
Hackers And Spambots Are Going After Your Fridges and Smart TVs Now | TechCrunch
Meet The Malware That Took Down Target | TechCrunch
Looks Like Russians Were Behind the Target Hack
A Closer Look At The Target Malware Part II
Rebooting webOS: how LG rethought the smart TV | The Verge
Confirmed: Yahoo’s Editor-In-Chief Is Out | TechCrunch
Yahoo’s Comeback Is All Smoke and Mirrors
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $20M In Custom Apparel Platform Teespring | TechCrunch
Reuters deeply alarmed by competition in the cellphone industry : Columbia Journalism Review
50 Best Firefox Addons Of 2013
Apple’s iPhone now represents 42% of smartphones owned in the US – NPD
Google executives set to break ground on $82 million private air terminal next month
DoubleTwist’s new Android app records songs played on iTunes Radio (updated)
Hershey, 3D Systems to Develop Printable Foods – WSJ.com
How to Block on Twitter: Blocking in Fight Against Cyberstalking | TIME.com
Elsewhere
Can Having Sex Make You Smarter? — PsyBlog
Arnold Schwarzenegger having ballet lessons | Retronaut
When the NFL’s greatest QB rivalry was born, few cared. | SportsonEarth.com : Mike Tanier Article