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Buiter: Europe’s Time is Running Out Fast
The U.S. Budget Supercommittee Game
Twitter Digest: 2011-11-16
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Buiter: Europe’s Time is Running Out Fast

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:37 PM PST

Citi’s Willem Buiter on Bloomberg TV today: Europe’s time is running out fast. [-]

The U.S. Budget Supercommittee Game

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:00 PM PST

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Twitter Digest: 2011-11-16

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:00 PM PST

So we've got that going for us: First Social Media ETF Goes Live http://t.co/RM6P6VoC #
I've seen this on the I-5 near Encinitas: How a tram travelling at light speed gets distorted due to relativity http://t.co/VcIPQ2Hx #
The nonsensical "government as household" budget metaphor, by Steven Landsburg in WSJ. He knows better. http://t.co/IHQUqwpq #
Apple iPhone effect big enough to tweak latest U.S. retail sales data http://t.co/LaUJlKtc #
Good analysis of Sony's design problems – http://t.co/dzxwMRaU #
Good story: From paintball games to media entrepreneur, Hootsuite – http://t.co/fwSi0uFO /via @bholly #
New @wnycradiolab: Patient zero — people and things that set events in motion. Good fun. http://t.co/B1AUQtzI #
Where has this happened before … RT @globebusiness: Canadians putting homes at risk with lines of credit http://t.co/jeOls8G7 #
[post] Buffett: Aged Companies 'r' Us http://t.co/cniYvzKN #
Leaving for Spain, Portugal, and London tomorrow, so you lovely people are on your own for a spell. #
Try not to break anything, etc. #
Payments in "secret farm bill" would balloon if commodity prices fall. Good thing prices are low. Wait. http://t.co/BjIygTR6 #
Microsoft shareholders grumble at annual meeting – http://t.co/k23bJS1W #
Dell guiding tonight rev growth to "low end" of 1-5% range. Mortuaries more of a growth business than are PCs. #
With his Paris weekend win, Roger Federer is on a twelve-match winning streak. Impressive for the old guy. #
Oil approaches $100 a barrel http://t.co/eEW7rEU7 #
Smil: The myth of the innovator hero – http://t.co/iIOwyFxA #
Smil: Obama's indefensible pipeline punt /cc @GregorMacdonald #
Somehow this Cloris Leachman moment came up in an email thread today – http://t.co/Ss24zkl2 #
The angry comments at obvious idea that startups are over-funded are most telling thing about this post – http://t.co/QFOpZ1lm #
While I'm on video clips that came up today, so did this classic one from Gumball Rally – http://t.co/dUESB9lh #
Sat in Thai restaurant today at lunch with a friend using my Bloomberg terminal. That's really geeky, isn't it? Just realizing. #
Kyle Bass is/was on BBC Hardtalk tonight talking Europeean debt. He was … being Kyle. http://t.co/tPcFpAYT #
Today in strange non-Bloomberg headlines: Broker launches UK terror model – http://t.co/4SEZaUSy #
Good analysis of winners and losers in the Keystone XL madness – http://t.co/fTl3g52x #
QotD: The problem is the boring people online — they're incred diff to get rid of, because they're often really nice. http://t.co/bYMcJ53i #
Good analysis: Saudi Oil Production Declining (Again) http://t.co/uP1n8ZuH #
Geology meets architecture meets finance: Bedrock Depth and the Formation of the Manhattan Skyline, 1890-1915 – http://t.co/gcT6Xh9I #
Today in copper prices: Would-be copper thief falls thru LA grocery market ceiling. Lands at cash register. http://t.co/lQBvFKEo #
I can't decide which part of Gingrich's absurd, hypocritical and deranged Freddie Mac behavior I like most. http://t.co/1ViwMQRP #
Bookstaber: Class Warfare and Revolution (Circa 1850) http://t.co/Hg5dEi4z #
Entertainingly bizarre: Star Trek-TNG crew watches Star Wars IV on the viewscreen – http://t.co/xYbMnXZg #
Ghost hotels: Booming China hotel market has translated into lowest occupancy rates in Asia – http://t.co/FkxNXHG3 #