30 11 12

Buy a House, Get a Visa: Coming Soon Everywhere?
{http://m.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2012/11/buy-house-get-visa-coming-soon-everywhere/3959/}

The monumental folly of rent-seeking
{http://www.johnkay.com/2012/11/21/the-monumental-folly-of-rent-seeking}

Cost of Pennies
{http://what-if.xkcd.com/22/}

Polar Ice Sheets Melt Faster
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323751104578149073844418936.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories}

29th November

 chief executive of Olam International, Sunny Verghese, told the BBC's Asia Business Report that his business is sound {http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20537072#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter}

Dead, Zig Ziglar: 10 Quotes That Can Change Your Life
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/11/28/zig-ziglar-10-quotes-that-can-change-your-life/}

The slow death of the stock-market investor, story of delining market volumes..
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/27/charts-of-the-day-equity-volume-edition/}

Review: Assholes: A Theory
{http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/23/assholes-a-theory/}

28 November

The World According to Xi Jinping
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/asia-watch/story/the-world-according-xi-jinping-20121128}

Pandemonium on China’s stock market
{http://www.danwei.com/pandemonium-on-chinas-stock-market/}

“The global economy is weakening again”
{http://oecdinsights.org/2012/11/27/the-global-economy-is-weakening-again/}

Hike The 2,000-Mile Trail That Most People Never Finish
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-appalachian-trail-2012-11}

NOV 27

Here is an incontrovertible fact, tech stock rallies explained
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/11/26/here-is-an-incontrovertible-fact/}

The decade of Xi Jinping
{http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2012/11/25/the-decade-of-xi-jinping/#axzz2DPtdjn00}

Poll Reveals Most and Least Emotional Countries in the World
{http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/13226/20121121/poll-reveals-emotional-countries-world.htm}

Bargain like a Somali
How to negotiate with pirates in the Horn of Africa
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21567077-how-negotiate-pirates-horn-africa-bargain-somali}

Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20501091}

Muddy Waters (finally) publishes report on Olam
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/27/1283253/muddy-waters-publishes-report-on-olam/}

Monday 26th November

The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks - Are banks and governments merely feeding each other's addictions?
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/tacit-bond-arrangement-between-governments-and-banks-endangers-system-a-868971.html}

Why Can't India Feed Its People?
{http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-21/why-cant-india-feed-its-people#p1}

Globalism goes backward
{http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/20/global-economy-backward/?iid=HP_River}

Disaster capitalism doesn’t work
{http://www.salon.com/2012/11/02/historian_jacob_remes_disasters_arent_natural/}

Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics
{http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/110196/hayek-friedman-and-the-illusions-conservative-economics#}

Should Europe Emulate the US?
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/international-finance/story/should-europe-emulate-the-us-20121126}

Who’s to blame for Dutch disease?
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2012/11/whos-to-blame-for-dutch-disease/}

22 November

With Autonomy, H-P Bought An Old-Fashioned Accounting Scandal. Here's How It Worked.
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/11/20/with-autonomy-h-p-bought-an-old-fashioned-accounting-scandal/}

Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says
{http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57505149/modern-wheat-a-perfect-chronic-poison-doctor-says/}

Top Nomura Economist Is Skeptical Of Fiscal Cliff Progress — And There's Good Reason To Take Him Seriously
{http://www.businessinsider.com/lewis-alexander-on-the-debt-ceiling-2012-11}

Other Things to Think About Besides the Fiscal Cliff
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/other-things-to-think-about-besides-the-fiscal-cliff/}

21st November

VIX still sleepy, but volatility in high-yield bonds going bonkers
{http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/11/20/vix-still-sleepy-but-volatility-in-high-yield-bonds-going-bonkers/}

Gold Adjusted for Inflation
Here’s a look at the price of gold adjusted for inflation. As strong as the yellow metal has been over the past 13 years, it’s still below its peak from 1980.

{http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2012/11/gold-adjusted-for-inflation-2.html}

Bubble

Is Catalonia backing away from independence?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/20/1268003/is-catalonia-backing-away-from-independence/}

Is Catalonia not backing away from independence?
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/catalonia-vote-future-spain}

5 hard truths progressives must face about Obama
{http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/5_hard_truths_progressives_must_face_about_obama/}

ooo, Mars Rover Scientists Say They're Sitting On A Discovery For The 'History Books'

{http://www.businessinsider.com/mars-rover-curiosity-major-discovery-2012-11}

A Record-Smashing Sailboat
{http://www.businessinsider.com/vesta-worlds-fastest-sailboat-2012-11}

Tuesday 20th November

Scotland’s debate lacks seriousness
http://www.johnkay.com/2012/10/31/scotland%E2%80%99s-debate-lacks-seriousness-2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Hamas links truce to end of Gaza border blockade
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57551575/hamas-links-truce-to-end-of-gaza-border-blockade/

How to Live Without Irony
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/
you also have to watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/131-years-of-global-warming-in-26-seconds

Of Parents, Puppies and Robots
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/of-parents-puppies-and-robots/

19th November

Learning to Love Volatility (Taleb)
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578120953311383448.html}

France blows up at Economist's 'ticking time-bomb' cover
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/16/economist-front-cover-france}

Iran denies supplying Fajr-5 rockets to Gaza militants: report
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/18/us-palestinians-israel-iran-idUSBRE8AH02H20121118}

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
{http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/}

16 November

ahh! so that is why - What is going on?
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/whats-going-on-2/}

Interdealer brokers. At the sharp end
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21566651-firms-connect-buyers-and-sellers-wholesale-markets-are-under?fsrc=rss%7Cfec}

How China Became Capitalist
{http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/how-china-became-capitalist}

Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
{http://priceonomics.com/toilets/#japanese}

15 November

 Latest note from Albert Edwards cheerful as ever... "Expect the
New Year to bring nothing but disappointment."
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/14/1261803/merry-christmas-and-a-recessionary-new-year/}

Multinationals Find Loopholes Galore in Europe
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/effort-to-close-multinationaltax-loopholes-gaining-steam-a-866989.html}


Thought about making things on the web
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/making_things

Bureaucrats Paid $250,000 Feed Outcry Over College Costs
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-14/bureaucrats-paid-250-000-feed-outcry-over-college-costs.html}

14th November

Is there a problem?
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/11/monetary-policy}

As one of the biggest political events of the decade slides into its second week, many correspondents who’ve flown in especially for the event are waking up to the realization that there’s absolutely nothing to report.
{http://chinadailyshow.com/hundreds-of-journalists-now-wandering-beijing-in-search-of-news/}

Joshua M Brown on politics
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/11/13/my-politics/}

Coffee is not dead – but it is losing its wild side
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/coffee-not-dead-wild-ethiopia

Amazon, Google and Starbucks are struggling to defend their tax avoidance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/amazon-google-starbucks-tax-avoidance

13 November

The Absolute Moron’s Guide to the Fiscal Cliff
{http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/absolute-morons-guide-to-the-fiscal-cliff.html}

 U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia’s by 2020
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-12/u-s-to-overtake-saudi-arabia-s-oil-production-by-2020-iea-says.html}

Seriously, Apple Is Doomed
{http://daringfireball.net/2012/11/seriously_apple_is_doomed}

More apple, A dramatic reading of Apple’s share price
{http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/12/a-dramatic-reading/}


Pari passu end games: the Argentina edition. (Heavy going)
{http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2012/11/pari-passu-endgames.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+creditslips%2Ffeed+%28Credit+Slips%29}

The Children Devour the Revolution
{http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/09/the_children_devour_the_revolution}

Monday 12th November

Challenges China’s New Leadership Faces
{http://chovanec.wordpress.com/}

What is driving Argentina's protest movement?
{http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/11/2012111061345785634.html}

A Simple Fiscal Fix That Would Make The US Immensely Safer Without Hurting A Single Citizen {http://www.businessinsider.com/get-rid-of-the-debt-ceiling-2012-11}

Gold is not an “Investment”
{http://pragcap.com/gold-is-not-an-investment}

Economics
{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics#Practice}

DIY Satellite Platforms
{http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/7419}

Friday 9th November

Page 5 a must read! {http://www.cityam.com/issue/2012-11-09}













Overview of what is going on with Chinese regime change.
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/08/1222141/bluffers-guide-to-chinas-regime-change/}

Some genius paired 50 Cent's In Da Club with a video put out by the Jehovah's Witnesses to encourage deaf people not to masturbate.
http://kottke.org/12/11/jehovahs-witnesses-to-the-deaf-no-masturbation-in-da-club

Thursday 8th of November

This Is the Worst Election for Wall Street in Decades
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/this-is-the-worst-election-for-wall-street-in-decades/264892/}

The FT in play
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/06/the-ft-in-play/}

Power-Mad Conservatives
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/power-mad-conservatives/}

The Best Burgers In 12 Cities Around The US
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-burgers-in-12-cities-around-the-us-2012-11}

French Banks Try an Import From the U.S.
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204349404578103062019217382.html?mod=dist_smartbrief}

7th Nov

Little of interest , all Obama

A gentle wind at the world's back
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/11/global-economy}

Today’s 6 most creative election front pages
{http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/194461/todays-6-most-creative-election-front-pages/#.UJlvZlASLTY.twitter}

Million-Dollar Traders Replaced With Machines Amid Cuts
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-06/million-dollar-traders-replaced-with-machines-credit-markets.html}

STOCKWATCH
{http://www.theonion.com/features/stockwatch/}

Nice Boat
http://www.zeit.de/reisen/2012-10/fs-yachten-segeln-2

6th Nov

The Change in America’s Debt by Presidential Term
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/the-change-in-americas-debt-by-presidential-term/}




Hard-hit by sanctions, Iran suspends 20-percent uranium enrichment
{http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/04/247475.html}


America Has Already Lost Tuesday's Election
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/commentary-total-capitalism-and-the-downfall-of-america-a-865437.html}

Corporate TEDucation
What a nonprofit events group can teach business
{http://www.economist.com/news/business/21565677-what-nonprofit-events-group-can-teach-business-corporate-teducation}

Was the green man, that pagan spirit of nature, in fact England’s secret symbol of resistance to Norman oppression? (No, but interesting history read)

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/paul-kingsnorth-green-man/

5th November

This was what NYC looked like from Sunday to Friday when a transformer in lower Manhattanexploded and rendered all below 39th street in the darkness……
{http://nymag.com/nymag/letters/hurricane-sandy-editors-letter-2012-11/?mid=facebook_nymag}

Chinese No Longer Bow to Autocratic Rule
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/challenge-for-new-leaders-chinese-no-longer-bow-to-autocratic-rule-a-864998.html}

It's Global Warming, Stupid
{http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/its-global-warming-stupid}