My afternoon train reading:
• Why the Fed Wants Higher Prices (Barron’s)
• Hedge Funds Bought Gold in Biggest Rally Since 2011 (Bloomberg) but see Gold is a popping bubble, too (Marketwatch)
• What Should We Expect For Long Run Risk Premiums? (Capital Spectator)
• China's GDP and the investment factor (FT Alphaville)
• Private-Equity Buyouts Shortchange Shareholders (MoneyBeat)
• Cohan: Free Fab! Then Go After Fuld and Cayne and O’Neal. (Bloomberg)
• What does it even mean to “believe” something? (Noahpinion) see also Information wants to be expensive (Reuters)
• Why 'Made in the U.S.A.' is still a viable model for some local manufacturers (Washington Post)
• Seeing Apple in Microsoft’s reorganization (Fortune)
• Fine Print: master inventory of canned responses for online dispute resolution. (@pourmecoffee)
What are you reading?
Emerging-Market Rout Offers Bargains 
Source: WSJ
• MPs force Greek statistics chief to defend role, exemptions (Ekathimerini)
• Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (Verso)
• Who Are Some Famous Gay Athletes? (ChaCha)
• Blackstone Raises $5 Billion Rental Bet With Lending Arm (Bloomberg)
• Politics come first in gay-marriage finale (Daily Journal)
• Diesel’s Difference Engine Born again (Economist)
• Lessons Learned From Well-Behaved Investors (Bucks) see also Why gold crashes as global turmoil continues (Fortune)
• A Smarter Dividend Strategy (WSJ)
• Is There a Better Way to Build Indexes? (WSJ)
• 10 mindblowingly futuristic technologies that will appear by the 2030s (io9)
• With warming seas, lobsters become an abundant bargain (Boston Globe)
• The 10 best things government has done for us (MarketWatch)
• Where Are They Now: George Gilder (WSJ) see also The Madness of King George (Wired)
• A New Tool Aims to Help Facebook Users Dig Deep (NYT)
• Do the inflationistas really believe what they say? (Noahpinion) see also Charlatans, Cranks & Economists on Inflation (The Atlantic)
• The need for less speed (Tim Harford)
• Why optimism is your worst investing enemy (MarketWatch)
• Praying for an Immaculate Rotation (Barron’s)
• Audi to Zappa See Trade Talks as Chance to Cut Rules (Bloomberg)
• A Smarter Dividend Strategy (WSJ)
• Short Looks Beautiful to Bond Investors (WSJ)
• Is There a Better Way to Build Indexes? (WSJ)
What are you reading?
• Watch actors perform their very own death-defying stunts (io9)
• An Economic Primer for Spies (Economix)
• The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.) (NYT)
• Three Great Interviews (A Dash of Insight)
• Should You Abandon Smaller Clients? (Financial Planning)
• Transport is Mostly a Real Estate Problem (Urbanization Project)
• Update: Four Charts to Track Timing for QE3 Tapering (Calculated Risk)
• Eurozone crisis over? Not by a long, long way (Telegraph)
• The world's new largest building is four times the size of Vatican City (Alt Wire)
• Anglo Attitudes (Book Forum)
• Waiting for the Dough (Open Letters Monthly)
• Every Breath You Take (City Journal)
• Hints surface that NSA building massive, pervasive surveillance capability (McClatchy)
• The Difference Between Science And Engineering (Farnam Street)
• Being a sandpiper (aeon)
• How Science Helped Write the Declaration of Independence (Nautilus)
• America’s founders would be horrified at this United States of Surveillance (theguardian)
• Revealed: the Rupert Murdoch tape (Channel 4)
• Clear Eyes, Full Plates, Can’t Puke (GQ)
• How long copyright terms make art disappear (Boing Boing)
• How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability Rules Help Resurrect Old Songs) (Social Science Research Network)
• William Shakespeare’s Star Wars (Quirk Books)
• A Long History of Untruthiness by U.S. Intelligence (Bloomberg)
• The Case for Swearing Off Stocks (WSJ)
• Goldman Sachs to Microsoft's Support for Gays Pressures States (Bloomberg)
• An Open Letter To The Idiot Nation (Stonekettle Station)
• Some banks don't record deed in foreclosure, neglect property (TribLive)
• Why Woody Allen Won’t Stop Working (Fast Company)
• Cuomo aide turns Wall Street hammer (Politico)
• CNBC Quarterly Ratings Fall To Lowest Level Since 1994 (Value Walk)
• Performance of China’s Hong Kong Shares Has Been a Long-Term Letdown (WSJ)
• The Broker Who Saved America (The Reformed Broker)
• Gold, and Why So Many Investors Fall for Bubbles (Motley Fool)
• 12 Amazing Staircases Around the World (The World Geography)
• 'I wish we had one more year:' States are struggling to launch Obamacare on time (Wonkblog)
• Cockatoos ‘pick’ puzzle box locks (EurekAlert)
• Addressing (unintended) disrespect in your professional community. (Scientific American)
• Get Ready for the Next China (Yale Global)
• The New Economics of Part-Time Employment (Economix)
What are you reading?
• The Classic Index Design of Weighting Stocks by Market Value Was Beaten by 13 Alternatives in One Study http://on.wsj.com/16TOjNv (WSJ)
• How The Tea Party Spoiled A GOP Governor's Plot To Appear Competent (National Memo)
• How to Have a Year that Matters (Harvard Business Review)
• Something Old, Something New (Wired)
• Goodbye, Miami (Rolling Stone)
• The NYU Scandal Has the Same Cast of Characters as NYSE-Grasso-Gate (Wall Street on Parade)
• China Signals More Inaction on Credit (WSJ)
• Emerging Markets Are on Their Own (WSJ)
• Weekend Confidential: Daniel Ek (WSJ)
• An unwind in the great Chinese over-invoicing carry-trade? (FT Alphaville) see also China’s threatening financial crisis: Where Will It End? (Barron’s)
• Ben Bernanke’s Rotten Week (Barron’s)
• As Prisons Squeeze Budgets, GOP Rethinks Crime Focus (WSJ)
• The Collapse of Science, Not Housing, Ended the American Dream (Huffington Post)
• There's a Reason for Deposit Insurance (NYT)
• Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick (Museum of the City of New York)
• The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks (MIT Technology Review)
• World's Biggest Pension Fund Doubts 2% Inflation for Japan (Bloomberg)
• Today's ranking of the world's richest people (Bloomberg)
• Et Tu, Bernanke? (NYT)
• Two Economies in Turmoil, for Different Reasons (NYT)
• The Problem With Too Many Millionaires (NYT)
• I Saw the Secret Trade Deal (Alan Grayson’s Emails)
• Distracted walking: injuries soar for pedestrians on phones (Eureka Alert)
• On Everything (Seeking Wisdom)
• Papering Over App Store Problems (stratechery)
• Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (Wired)
• Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System, Wants It At Supercharging Stations By Year's End (TEch Crunch)
• Finance people are from Mars, and economics people are from Venus (Wonkblog)
• Career Hit A Roadblock? Fox News Has A Job For You (Talking Points Memo)
• Meet America's Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw (AlterNet)
• Demographers Discover The Fundamental Law Governing the Growth of Cities (MIT Technology Review)
• How Immigration Reform Would Help the Economy (Economix)
• Big Ben theory not working (New York Post)
• Pension Fund Takes Neighborly Advice (WSJ)
• Why it's more important for CNBC's Jim Cramer to be loud than right (MarketWatch)
• Data You Can Believe In (NYT)
• Independently funded studies on the safety of GM food (boing-boing) see also Guide to GENERA (Biology Fortified, Inc.)
• More evidence the iPhone 4 is Apple's key to emerging markets (Gigaom)
• How to Make a Vesper: Design (Vesper)
• How Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and other business chiefs hold ruthlessly effective meetings (Quartz)
• Super Sugar Keeps Naked Mole Rats Cancer-Free (Wired)
• Evil in a Haystack (Foreign Policy)
• Young self-described 'conservatives' underestimate their liberalism (Psypost)
• Markets Are Confused And Stupid, And Apparently People Don’t Know How To Read (Business Insider)
• From Ike to "The Matrix": Welcome to the American dystopia (Salon)
• Exposing the Social Security solvency hype (MarketWatch)
• Warm Oceans Major Cause of Ice Loss in Antarctica (USNews)
REIT Outlook Positive Despite Recent Fall
Source: WSJ
Tracking Risk Isn’t So Easy
Source: WSJ
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• Josh Brown on having an edge in investing: Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others (TRB)
• Finance people are from Mars, and economics people are from Venus (Wonkblog)
• Top five regrets of the dying (theguardian)
• How to Have a Year that Matters (Harvard Business Review)
• Finance blogger wisdom: a post-Bogle world (Abnormal Returns)
• How to Handle Collectibles as Client Assets (Advisor One)
• Asia's richest man is betting $1.26 billion on the trash crisis (Quartz)
• Sushi Aid in $1 Trillion U.S. Farm Bill Irks Watchdogs (Bloomberg)
• Congress is wildly unpopular. Should anyone actually care? (Wonkblog)
• Apple has become a design follower instead of a leader — and it may be just fine with that (Gigaom)
• How Consistency Leads to Overconfidence (priceonomics)
• Read This and Blush: Naughty Medieval French Tales (Daily Beast)
• FINRA posts $10.5 million profit on higher fees (Reuters)• This column will change your life: why Rolf Dobelli isn’t thinking clearly (theguardian)
• Is Anything Stopping a Truly Massive Build-Out of Desert Solar Power? (Scientific American)
• Around the world in 20 gaffes (Telegraph)
• Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie (Supply-Side Liberal)
• What is “neoclassical” economics? (Noahpinion)
• How to Be a Better Boss (Scientific American)
• From Fox News to Rush: Secrets of the right's lie machine (Salon)
• The world's new largest building is four times the size of Vatican City (Quartz)
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Tokyo Shares Get a Second Look Some Investors See Recent Decline in Stocks as a Buying Opportunity; ‘Japan Is Now Undervalued’
Source: WSJ
• What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare (NYT)
• Instead Of Fiscal Cliff, Call It “Cliffgate” 2014 (Capital Gains and Games)
• The hidden threat to your portfolio (MarketWatch)
• Seeking Exposé, Students End Up in Handcuffs (NYT)
• Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides. (Slide Share)
• Possible vs Probable (Alpha Capture)
• Riskier Junk-Loan Demand Soaring Like It's 2007 (Bloomberg)
• Study: 95% of People Don’t Wash Their Hands ‘Correctly’ (Atlantic)
• What's more important: a college degree or being born rich? (Matt Bruenig)
• Lines Blur in U.S.-Europe Debate on Austerity (NYT)
• World’s Oldest Person Dies—How Can You Live to 100? (National Geographic)
• Going Dark, and Putting Blindfolds on Investors (NYT)
• The Monkey Theory of Human Investing (Forbes)
• Jumbo Rates Lower Than Conforming Rates (The Basis Point)
• Winners and Losers in the Coming Super-Network War (Barron’s)
• Farrell: 11 dark trends killing Millennials' dreams (MarketWatch)
• Can Bernanke Avoid a Meltdown in the Bond Market? (Bloomberg)
• The deep, dark secret of SEO (pandodaily)
• Man on the Run (And Magazine)
• When Shareholders Get Snubbed (Motley Fool)
• SkyMall’s SkyFall (priceonomics)
• Been There, Done That (Furbo)
• Why Netflix is producing original content (Reuters)
• U.S. Set for Smallest Deficit in 5 Years (Real Time Economics)
• Advice for Graduate Students (Dave Giles)
• The Bond Market Vigilantes Are Still Not in the Same Hemisphere As We Are (Brad DeLong)
• Foreign Investors Not Responsible for Nikkei Decline (Marc to Market)
• We Will Never See Hyperinflation (Financial Sense)
• Have We Hit Peak HFT? (Tabb Forum)
• Inflation at 53-Year Low Belies U.S. Demand Vigor (Bloomberg) see also The Biggest Economic Mystery of 2013: What’s Up With Inflation? (Atlantic)
• Overhaul Efforts in Washington Reflect Few Lessons of Housing Crisis (DealBook)
• A Workout for Your Brain, on Your Smartphone (NYT)
• What If the ‘Redcoat NSA’ Had Access to Paul Revere’s Metadata? (Businessweek)
• How Hedge Funds Transfer Wealth From Investors To Managers (Forbes) see also As a group, hedge fund performance 'shockingly bad' (The Royal Gazette Online)
• America's Wealth-Making Machine Is Upside Down (Fiscal Times)
• In Japan, a Growth Strategy With Echoes of the Past (NYT)
• The Fake News Has a Fake Host for Three Months (NYT)
• How Much Is Adorable Worth To You? Is It 116bps A Year? (Dealbreaker)
• The Downside of Entrepreneurial Success (WSJ)
• Next Debt-Ceiling Histrionics Could Do Real Harm (Bloomberg)
• Gut Bacteria’s Belch May Play A Role In Heart Disease (npr)
• Superman’s Jewish Roots on Display at 75th Anniversary Exhibit (DNAinfo)
• Why? (Seeking Wisdom)
• Future Shlock Meet the two-world hypothesis and its havoc (New Republic)
• Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica, by T J Clark, review (Telegraph)
• The Gentleman Naturalist (Dublin Review of Books)
• Number of the Week: 140% Increase in Food Stamp Use Since 1990 (Real Time Economics)
• Obama says GOP obstruction of nominations is 'unprecedented.' What if he's right? (The Plum Line)
• Wonkbook: The immigration bill is moving right (Wonkblog)
• What Barry Said (The Bonndad Blog)
• NYT Gives Damning-With-Faintest-Praise-Possible Profile of Glenn Greenwald After Surveillance Scoops (naked capitalism)
• Did Hipster Tech Really Save the Obama Campaign? (Wired)
• For a Fiscal Conservative, Spending at Home Passes the Test (Roll Call)
The Shiller P/E (CAPE ratio)
Source: MarketWatch
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Downside of Entrepreneurial Success
Source: WSJ
• Scalia Gives Obamacare a Big Boost (Bloomberg)
Whats up?
Beware the ‘Great Rotation’
Source: WSJ
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• Obama says GOP obstruction of nominations is 'unprecedented.' What if he's right? (The Plum Line)
• Wonkbook: The immigration bill is moving right (Wonkblog)
• Inside Tracks (The New Yorker)
• The Art of Reading: How to Read A Book (Farnam Street)
• Disruptions: The Echo Chamber of Silicon Valley (Bits)
• The Nature of Explanation (Farnam Street)
• For Twitter, the Challenge Is to Keep It All Simple (WSJ)
• The 100% Stock Solution (WSJ)
• Late Stock Drop Belies Strong May (WSJ)
• What Are You Afraid Of? (WSJ)
• The Curious Case of the Unflappable Euro (WSJ)
• The Right to Evade Regulation How corporations hijacked the First Amendment (New Republic)
• College in Sweden is free but students still have a ton of debt. How can that be? (Quartz)
• How to test Weinstein’s provocative theory of everything (New Scientist)
• After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff's data, we've concluded that high debt does not slow growth (Quartz)
• The New ABCs of Mutual Funds (WSJ)
• New Bells and Whistles for 401(k) Plans (WSJ)
• Why TV Has Resisted Disruption (Stratechery)
• In the weeds (asymco)
• 4 Economic Predictions Prove Doomsayers Wrong (Fiscal Times)
• Wonkbook: Americans haven't rebuilt 91 percent of their wealth. They've rebuilt less than 45 percent. (Wonkblog)
• The Republican Riddle: What the States Know That the Feds Don't (Trading 8s)
• Bernanke Economy in Fed Centennial Poised for GDP Growth (Bloomberg)
• All Your Skype Are Belong To Us (Financial Cryptography)
The Verdict Is In: Hedge Funds Aren’t Worth the Money
Source: WSJ
• Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor's desk (arstechnica)
• The most feared man on Wall St. (New York Post)
• Why Didn’t the SEC Catch Madoff? It Might Have Been Policy Not To (Taibblog)
• Six Charts That Prove The Tax Code Was Written For The Rich (Business Insider)
• Machines for Life (Pitch Fork)
• Walking Your Octopus (iTunes)
• 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Beer (Discover)
• Use your personal smartphone for work email? Your company might take it (The Redtape Chronicles)
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• The Art of Designing Luxury Model Apartments (WSJ)
• Radical Predictions That Fell Flat (Yahoo Finance)
• Wall Street Turns to 'Boot Camps' to Bring New Workers Up to Speed (Dealbook)
• The Cord-Cutting Fantasy (stratechery)
• Fed Stance Spells Woe for Emerging-Market Currencies (WSJ)
• Swoon in Bonds Puts Eye on Fed (WSJ)
• Venetian Finds (WSJ)
• What is wrong (and right) in economics? (Dani Rodrik)
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• Economy Not Nearly Good Enough To Take Credit For Everyone Getting Knocked Up Circa Sandy (Dealbreaker)
Is Economy Doing Better Than GDP Suggests? (Real Time Economics)
• Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay? (Harvard Business Review)
• Government Potholes on Road to Recovery (Real Time Economics)
• Choosing the Next Head of the Federal Reserve (Economix)
• An answer to a lunar mystery: Why is the moon's gravity so uneven? (MIT news)
• Oil & Trains (excerpt) (Dr.Ed’s Blog)
• Cradle Turns Smartphone Into Handheld Biosensor; 'Performs as Accurately as a Large $50,000 Spectrophotometer in the Laboratory' (Cryptogon)
• RIAA Makes Drastic Employee Cuts as Revenue Plummets (Torrent Freak)
• Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it (The Conversation)
• For The Republicans To Re-Emerge, Horatio Alger Must Die (Forbes)
• Why Some Countries Are Dominated By The 1%, While Others Are Not (Business Insider)
but see Debating Helicopter Money (while the lunatics continue to run the asylum) (mainly macro)
• Bob Dole's Delinquent Children (American Conservative)
• 45 yEARS Ago: The Beatles Begin Recording ‘The White Album’ (Ultimate Classic Rock)
• Microsoft ‘U-turn’ sees Start button back on Windows 8 (BBC)
• An Auction? Most EBay Users Don’t Have Time for That (Businessweek)
• This Is How the NRA Ends A bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived (New Republic)
• Good old days: What can the modern world learn from older societies? (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
• Creative companies: What are the 10 secrets of innovative offices? (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
• We're Winning the War on Poverty (Slate)
• Why the Shareholder Rescue Never Comes (ProPublica)
• Do falling tax rates explain the rising incomes of the top 1%? (Miles Corak)
• China Failure to Grow With $1 Trillion Is Warning to Li (Bloomberg)
• Apple CEO Says Game Changers In Development Boost Lineup (Bloomberg)
• C.E.O.'s Don't Need to Earn Less. They Need to Sweat More. (NYT)
• Flawed System Suits the Shareholders Just Fine (Dealbook)
• Bartlett: Getting to Tax Reform (Economix)
• Today's GOP is fundamentally unserious about governing (The Plum Line)
• Surprise! When the rich get richer, taxes go lower (Wonkblog)
• Promiscuous media (Reuters)
• China Credit-Bubble Call Pits Fitch's Chu Against S&P (Bloomberg)• Obamacare Unveiled as California, New York Lead U.S. (Bloomberg)
• Apple CEO Says Game Changers in Development to Boost Lineup (Bloomberg)
• WonkWatch: Accurate and Inaccurate Ways of Portraying the Debt-and-Growth Association (Brad DeLong)
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• Accounting Fraud Targeted (WSJ)
• Paint Bombs (New Yorker)
• Naming Names in the Dodd Frank Mess (The American Prospect)
• Bogus IRS scandal actually a Supreme Court scandal (Politics in the Zeros)
• Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick (Quartz)
• How a Big-Bank Failure Could Unfold (Economix)
• Almost all states seeing big drop in teen birth rates (CBSNews)
• Netflix Declares War on Nickelodeon (Fiscal Times)
• Watch out. The mortgage securities market is at it again. (Fortune)
• Debt Without Drowning (Project Syndicate)
• Pessimism and priorities in advanced economies (FT Alphaville)
• How to Enjoy Your Decision (Scientific American)
• Discovered: The Molecule Responsible for Itchiness (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Defining My Dyslexia (NYT)
• The Debt-Ratio Distraction (Project Syndicate)
• Mike Epps Hot Rods and Luxury Cars (GQ)
• Farm Subsidy Recipient Backs Food Stamp Cuts (NYT)
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• How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law (npr)
• The Biggest Bubble of Them All (Minyanville)
• A weeks profits! Big whoop! Nasdaq fined $10 million by SEC for Facebook IPO (MarketWatch)
Five Reasons it's Wrong to Steal Other People's Content (Positively Peggy)
• Confusion to the Skeptics (Barron’s)
• Swindles and Spam, Lurking in Your Search Results (NYT)
• Shocking Before And After Pictures Of How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth (Business Insider)
• Tech Industry After 2007 Loss Drafts Own Rules for Visas (Bloomberg)
• It's all been for nothing – that is, if we ignore the millions of jobs lost etc (Bill Mitchell)
• Bootstrapping the Industrial Age (The Technium)
• Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard (Justin Ruckman)
• The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment (Science Blogs)
• The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): The History of a Failed Revolutionary Idea in Finance? (Social Science Research Network)
• The Bush Tax-Cut Failure (Economix)
• We Tracked Down Our Biggest Troll…and Kind of Liked Him (Mother Jones)
• The too-smart city (Boston Globe)
• A New Era for Do-It-Yourself Investing (WSJ)
• How to kill the European repo market in 10 easy steps (FT Alphaville)
• Saying More than “When the Storm is Long Past the Ocean is Flat” (Brad DeLong)
• Buffett Ignores Gross's New Normal, Pities Bond Investors (Bloomberg)
• New 'Game of Thrones' battlefield is America (MarketWatch)
• Pete Peterson's austerity front group, Fix the Debt: more shenanigans revealed! (Washington Monthly)
• Awesome energy innovations, courtesy of Uncle Sam (MarketWatch)
• Rand Paul will never be president (Salon)
• Upgrade or Die (The New Yorker)
• Save your kids from financial disaster (MarketWatch)
• Creative Dad Takes Most Adorable Kids Photos Ever (Twisted Sifter)
• The Chutzpah Caucus (NYT) see also France Declares Austerity Over as Germany Offers Wiggle Room (Bloomberg)
• How MailChimp learned to treat data like orange juice and rethink email in the process (Gigaom)
• The Idled Young Americans (NYT)
• Robin Thicke ‘Blurred Lines’ (Dirty Version) (Vimeo)
• Apple Misses iPhone Customers as Global Carriers Balk (Bloomberg)
• Buffett Offers a Sketch of Berkshire’s Next Era (WSJ)
• 15 of the Most Fascinating Looking Fungi in the World (Twisted Sifter)
• Of Acorns and Oaks (Mutual Fund Observer)
• George Osborne's Fear of Ghosts (NYT) see also George Osborne to tell IMF that austerity U-turn would do damage (theguardian)
• Mario Gabelli, the $750 Million Man (DealBook)
• In Brown-Vitter Bill, a Banking Overhaul With Possible Teeth (DealBook) see also Jeffrey Sachs: Banking Abuses 'Can't Get More in Your Face' (MoneyBeat)
• U.S. Spending Cuts Seen as Key in Slowing Growth (NYT)
• The Science of Serendipity in the Workplace (WSJ)
• Is This the Most Hated Bull Market Ever? (WSJ)
• Medicaid Access Increases Use of Care, Study Finds (NYT)
• Rise of the conservative revolutionaries (Salon) see also Republicans Not Happy the Tea Party Ain't Goin' Away (Dvorak Uncensored)
• Bush v. Gore doubts voiced by Justice O’Connor for first time (Christian Science Monitor)
• Your Money: 401(k) fees make or break returns (USA Today) see also BrightScope Releases Top 25 Tech Cos With Best 401k Plans (WSJ)
• Eugene Scalia, Antonin Scalia’s Son, Described As ‘An Absolute Bulldog’ On Dodd-Frank (Huffington Post)
• Why high corporate profits aren't so bad (Reuters)
• Building a Smarter Portfolio (Financial Planning)
• Senate Shows Unanimous Support For Ending Too-Big-To-Fail Subsidy (Huffington Post) see also Brown, Vitter Unveil Legislation That Would End "Too Big To Fail" Policies (Sherrod Brown)
• Big Banks are Victims of Their Own Success (ProPublica)
• The Case Against Cronies: Libertarians Must Stand Up to Corporate Greed (Atlantic)
• Watch Out USA: Mexico Has its Own Asia Pivot Plan (The Diplomat)
• The hole the mutual fund industry has dug for itself (Financial Post)
• Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing (Daring Fireball)
• Without Excusing Obamanomics, Bushonomics Was a Dismal Failure (Real Clear Markets)
• Best Of The Ed Balls Meme (BuzzFeed)
• Show Yourself the Money (GQ)
• Bucket Portfolio Maintenance: There’s More Than One Way to Get It Done (Morningstar)
• Down Payment Rules Are at Heart of Mortgage Debate (DealBook) and see U.S. Mortgage Rates Fall With 15-Year at Lowest on Record (Bloomberg)
• Is There Evidence of a Supernova in the Fossils of Ancient Bacteria? (Scientific American)
• The Treasury's Mistaken View on Too Big to Fail (Economix)
• High-mass pulsar binary provides best test of general relativity (arstechnica)
• Remains of a supernova fall to Earth (arstechnica)
• Current reading: 398.36 ppm (The Keeling Curve)
• Wall Street vs. Its Employees’ Privacy (WSJ)
• Scientists in Antarctica Find Invading Neutrinos from Another Galaxy! (Slate)
• How does China censor the internet? (Economist)
see also Self-Driving Cars by 2020? Sort Of, Cadillac Says (WSJ)
• When Our Kids Own America (npr)
• From Lehman to Cyprus (Economix) see also In Cyprus, Europe Sets a New Standard for Stupidity (Bloomberg)
• Shadow Economy Shows Joblessness Less Than Meets U.S. Eye (Bloomberg)
• How would you like to invest in immortality? (Fortune)
• 50 words that will improve your writing (Bad Language)
• The Touch-Screen Generation (The Atlantic) see also J.D. Power: average smartphone satisfaction is up, fights are fierce for second place (engadget)
• Delong: Shrugging off Atlas’s theory of the moocher class (Democracy)
• The Politics of the 14th Amendment and the Debt Limit (Economix)
• World from Berlin: ‘Last Euro-Crisis Taboo Broken’ (Spiegel)
• California Nonpartisan Districting Ousts Life Incumbents (Bloomberg)
• GOP: We've been lying all along (Salon)
• Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work (Gigaom)
• Google keyword advertising is waste of money, says eBay report (theguardian)
• Inside a Warier Fed, Watch the New Guy (WSJ)
• Law Schools and Other Shameless Schemes (WSJ)
• Why Conservatives Want to Break Up the Banks, Too (New Republic)
• Investors Embrace Climate Change, Chase Hotter Profits (Bloomberg)
• Deciphering Dynamic Asset Allocation: Lessons From Perold and Sharpe (CCSA)
• To Reassure Investors, Fed Stresses It Will Not End Stimulus (NYT)
• Number of Cases Filed by SEC Slows (WSJ)
• Sowing the wind (Coppola Comment)
• How Hank Paulson’s Office Colluded With JPMorgan And Subverted Efforts To Rescue Lehman (OpEdNews)
• Bitcoin Combines Ph.D-Level Computer Science With Sub-Kindergarten-Level Monetary Understanding (Forbes)
• Wall Street power player: We're incentivized to cheat (Salon)
• How Netflix Built the New Couch Potato (Atlantic Wire)
• Empires of the Sun (WSJ)
• The Most Life-Changing Hot Dog in America Is… (Esquire)
• Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze (ICIJ)
• Do Americans still not get Reaganomics? (Salon)
• The Psychology of Language: Why Are Some Words More Persuasive Than Others? (lifehacker)
• 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) (TED)
• The IMF is flunking the financial crisis (Telegraph)
• Gold Gaining as Physical Demand Said to Be 'Extraordinary' (Bloomberg) see also The case for owning gold has collapsed (MarketWatch)
• Sorting the Real Sandy Photos From the Fakes (Atlantic)
• Why Do People Hate Their Jobs? (The Altucher Confidential)
• Why ‘financial literacy’ is a bunch of hooey – and why the banks promote it (theguardian)
• For the Love of God, Just Call It a Filibuster (Atlantic)
• The Forecast is Beautiful: Introducing The Yahoo! Weather App for iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch (Flickr)
• 50 Time Saving Tips for Small Businesses (Small Business Trends)
• Austerity Is Based on Fear and Greed, Not Theory (Real Time Economics)
• Hatzius: Dealers Say No End to QE in '13; 2016 Rate Rise (Bloomberg)
• Unified Theory of the Stock Market (FinancialPhysics)
• Stormy Days for China's Solar Industry (The Diplomat)
• Fed Officials Back Higher Capital (WSJ)
• A Falling Unemployment Rate Is Always Good (Bloomberg)
• 50 Experts on Parties, Management, Zombies, Self-Improvement, and More (Businessweek)
• Debating Apple’s Stock as It Hovers Near $400 (Barron’s)
• The Bull Market’s Last Stand? (Barron’s)
• Gold ETF Selling Would Dump More Bullion on Market After Crash (ETF Trends)
• No House Party for Bank of America (WSJ)
• Abolish the Senate; don't just reform it (MarketWatch)
• Senate Vote 97 – Defeats Manchin-Toomey Background Checks Proposal (NYT)
• The Myth that Insulating Boards Serves Long-Term Value (SSRN)
• Strength in the Face of Evil (One Foot Tsunami)
• When Swindlers Worked the 'Big Con' on Stock Investors (Echoes)
• Exiting unconventional policy will be unconventional (FT Alphaville)
• Victims of Foreclosure Abuses Face Another Woe: Bounced Checks (DealBook)
• Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Built “Time Machine” (National Geographic)
• You play like you practice (37signals)
• Everybody, Get Ready for the Smallest U.S. Investment Budget in Recorded History (Atlantic)
• How Much Do 5,000 Twitter Followers Cost? (priceonomics)
• Congress repeals STOCK Act reporting requirements for senior execs (Federal News Radio)
• Why Republicans Suddenly Became Afraid Of Their Own Budget Shadow (Talking Points Memo)
• Sticking to a plan in the face of emotional volatility (Abnormal Returns)
• The Top 10 Private Equity Loopholes (DealBook)
• We Have Seen Gold Prices Act Like This Before (Alhambra Partners) see also Why the Price of Gold is Plummeting: Six Theories (New Yorker)
• The Wealthy Keep the Tax Man Guessing (NYT)
• Most likely market-bust scenario (MSN Money) see also Dow 36,000, just around the corner (again) (Columbia Journalism Review)
• The Conspiracy to Make Wingnuts Paranoid and Stupid, Starring Rick Santelli (No More Mister Nice Blog)
• Overcoming Your Clients' Emotional Volatility (AdvisorOne)
• The Great Debt Delusion: How Math Keeps Proving Austerity Wrong (Atlantic)
• Empirical Methods and Progress in Macroeconomics (Economist’s View)
• Obama Signs Law Gutting Insider Trading Regulations For Congress (Firedoglake)
• The GOP's fiscal farce (Washington Post)
• 'Trickle-down consumption': How rising inequality can leave everyone worse off (Wonkblog)
• The Tailwinds Pushing the U.S. Dollar Higher (of two minds)
• Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are all trying to turn into the same uber-company (Quartz)
• Former Senator to Run Wall St. Lobby Group (DealBook)
• You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think (Scientific American)
• How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right (The Shape of Everything)
• Investigation Into Oil Industry Price Rigging Mirrors LIBOR Scandal (Update Post)
• Plight of the Navigators (WSJ)
• Junk Stocks Spur Broadest Equity Advance Since 1995 (Bloomberg)
• Vitamins That Cost Pennies a Day Seen Delaying Dementia (Bloomberg)
• The weirdest centipede ever (Why Evolution is True) see also Mozambique Diary: Alipes (The Smaller Majority)
• The Economic Nature of the Resource Curse: Evidence (Why Nations Fail)
• Euro Crisis Mires Continent in Longest Slump Since War (WSJ)
• World's Biggest Volatility Jump Spurs Fund Outflow (Bloomberg)
• Everyone in the Chase Pool…Remember This Moment (Howard Lindzon)
• Argument with Myself (London Review of Books)
• Signs of new housing bubble in several areas (Fortune)
• Rajat Gupta's Lust for Zeros (NYT)
• Be a Smart Investment News Consumer (Learn Bonds)
• Gold Bears Revived as Rout Resumes After Coin Rush (Bloomberg)
• How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise? (Gizmodo)
• Telecom's Big Players Hold Back the Future (NYT)
• Climate change may be baring Mount Everest (Los Angeles Times)
• Asset Allocation for Muppets with a 401(k) (25iq)
• Extreme Outcomes (Morningstar)
• Surprise! Inflation is too low almost everywhere on earth (Wonkblog)
• Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry? (Harvard Business Review)
• ‘What about Marx?’ (Economist’s View)
• Mr.Indispensable (Epicurean Dealmaker)
• The New Barbecue (WSJ)
• The Dollar is Poised for an Upward Explosion (WSJ)
• The Real I.R.S. Scandal (NYT)
• Soros Joins Gold-Stake Cuts Before Bear Market Drop (Bloomberg)
• Bull-Market Behavior Flares as Stocks Melt Up (Yahoo Finance)
• Gold: Be cautious when getting caught in the rush (Desert News)
• Longer Odds for Short-Selling Success (WSJ)
• Accounting Change Could Boost Companies’ Debt (WSJ)
• Why is Science Behind a Paywall? (priceonomics)
• Why Google’s new music service might actually work (CNNMoney)
• Soros Joins Gold-Stake Cuts Before Bear Market Drop (Bloomberg)
• There’s That Word Again (Alhambra Investment Partners)
• Why Did the U.S. Financial Sector Grow? (Conversable Economist)
• The Myth of a Perfect Orderly Liquidation Authority for Big Banks (Economix) see also Big Banks Get Break in Rules to Limit Risks (DealBook)
• As of today, every major mobile competitor… also makes apps for iOS (iMore) see also The register reinvented (Square Up)
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• 13 Benghazis That Occurred on Bush’s Watch Without a Peep from Fox News (HuffPo)
• When Computer Games May Keep the Brain Nimble (WSJ)
• Here’s The Real Reason People Bash Bernanke And Keynes When They’re On Stage At Conferences (Business Insider)
• What the Central Bank Giveth, Only the Central Bank Taketh Away (Barnejek)
• Fed in 2008 Showed Panic of 1907 Was Excessive (Bloomberg)
• Is the Fed Afraid to Regulate the Big Banks? (Bloomberg)
• Fed in 2008 Showed Panic of 1907 Was Excessive (Bloomberg)
• Rating Firms Steer Clear of an Overhaul (WSJ)
• Unreliable Sources: How the News Media Help the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• AT LAST: A Secure, Key-Free Way To Unlock Your Front Door Has Been Invented (Business Insider)
• What Happened to the Internet Productivity Miracle? (New Yorker)
• Science fiction novels for economists (Noahpinion)
• Message to a Graduate (Explore)
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• Double coverage: How The Boston Globe used its dual sites to cover the marathon bombing (Nieman Journalism Lab)
• To hedge inflation, property trusts are the new gold (Reuters)
• The Scientific 7-Minute Workout (NYT)
• The news media is even worse than you think (MarketWatch)
• Recovery in Germany Is Faster Than Elsewhere (NYT)
• Why Ben Bernanke Still Worries About Wall Street (Businessweek)
• No Lehman Moments as Biggest Banks Deemed Too Big to Fail (Bloomberg)
• Cool Portable Bicycle Concept (Reflections of Me)
• Is the Fed Blowing Bubbles? (Slate)
• Thoughts on the future of finance blogging (FT Alphaville) see also Finance blogging is not for the faint of heart (Abnormal Returns)
• Big Banks Push Back Against Tighter Rules (WSJ)
• Watch Manhattan's Boundaries Expand Over 250 Years (Gizmodo)
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No Lehman Moments as Biggest Banks Deemed Too Big to Fail
Source: Bloomberg
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