links for 2011-08-23
Japan likely to have its 7th PM in 5 years by next week - The Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government has grown deeply unpopular due to its perceived mishandling of the devastating tsunami and…
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Stephen Roach: Consumers need debt jubilee
The over-indebted American consumer will be hard pressed to simultaneously reduce debt and maintain levels of consumption that support economic growth. On CNBC today, Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley says, we need a debt jubilee for…
links for 2011-08-22
Motorola’s Value to Google Found in 18 Patents - Bloomberg
Among Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.’s more than 17,000 patents, a group of 18 may prove most useful in Google Inc.’s effort to fend off…
links for 2011-08-21
Sorry for the duplication. I am just switching the source automated links posting feature.
China Construction Bank Posts Record $14.5 Billion Profit on Credit Demand
China Construction Bank Corp., the…
Links 08/21/2011
In Defence of PIGS – Telegraph Blogs Readers have asked for a quick verdict on the Merkel-Sarkozy deal. I have nothing to say. There was no deal. It was a vacuous restatement of clauses that already…
Jon Stewart on Warren Buffett and the Class Warfare meme
Jon Stewart has noticed that Fox News is selling viewers on the view that ‘socialists’ like Warren Buffet and Barack Obama are engaged in class warfare. He presents an amusing view; take a look.
Links 08/20/2011
Bond markets signal 'Japanese' slump for US and Europe - Telegraph
Why Obama faces an uphill run for reelection - The Washington Post
Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button Declared Illegal In Germany…
Brazil has more monetary policy space in the event of global crisis
Frederick Searby says that Brazil has the opposite problem of the developed economies in that it is dealing with overheating and inflation while the developed economies have a serious deflationary undertow. His view is that if there is a…
Who said this: Obama or Hoover?
This is a brief follow-up to my post yesterday proclaiming that this is looking more like Hoover every day. Credit Writedowns reader Greg came across the statement below. Who said it, Herbert Hoover or Barack Obama?
Links 08/19/2011
Schuldenkrise: Griechenlands Wirtschaft schrumpft weiter - Konjunktur - Politik - Handelsblatt tags: Greece economy…