Thursday 28th March

China Regulator Tells Banks to Limit Holdings of Non-Traded Debt
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-27/china-regulator-tells-banks-to-limit-holdings-of-non-traded-debt.html}

The Best Way to Save Banking Is to Kill It
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-27/the-best-way-to-save-banking-is-to-kill-it.html}

Why Won't Cyprus Obey Krugman?
{http://econospeak.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/why-wont-cyprus-obey-krugman.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+espeak+(EconoSpeak)}

The Chinese Navy Has a Problem
{http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2013/03/27/the-chinese-navys-has-a-problem/}

A Golden Cross to Bear; Why miners have lagged the price of gold.
{http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=590321&part=2}

Why I'm leaving China - opinion
{http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/26/news/economy/china-business-pollution/index.html?iid=Lead}

Wednesday March 27

UK economic policy illogical, says Larry Summers
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21933720}

Most foreign investment in BRICs isn’t foreign at all—it’s tycoons using tax havens
{http://qz.com/66944/the-brics-biggest-investment-sources-are-tax-havens-which-mostly-shows-the-rich-stealing-from-the-poor/}

WORLD'S FIRST BITCOIN ATM IS ANNOUNCED - FIRST LOCATION: CYPRUS
{http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/3/25/worlds-first-bitcoin-atm-is-announced-first-location-cyprus.html}

How the Higgs Boson Might Spell Doom for the Universe
{http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-the-higgs-boson-might-spell-doom-for-the-universe}

Help to Buy scheme could drive up house prices, says OBR
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/mar/26/help-to-buy-house-prices-obr?CMP=twt_gu}

March 26, 2013

Japan breaks China's stranglehold on rare metals with sea-mud bonanza

{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9951299/Japan-breaks-Chinas-stranglehold-on-rare-metals-with-sea-mud-bonanza.html}

Remember: A Country Is Not a Company
{http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/remember_a_country_is_not_a_co.html}

Should Britain let go of London?

{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21934564}

Bitcoin bubble or new virtual currency?

{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/03/bitcoin-bubble-or-new-virtual-currency/}

&

What is a Digital Currency

{http://centregold.info/what-is-digital-currency}


Trade of the trick
How subtle cues like the letter ‘K’ or sunny days get us to spend more
{http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/trade_of_the_trick_U7gmvx2cuvrAn2SzhcZU1K}

The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense
{http://crispian-jago.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html}

Monday 25th March

Why Global Economies Face an Age of Deflation
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-20/why-global-economies-face-an-age-of-deflation.html}

The Low Volatility Story in Pictures
{http://vixandmore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-low-volatility-story-in-pictures.html}

The dangerous drift towards world war in Asia
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9950791/The-dangerous-drift-towards-world-war-in-Asia.html}

OECD sees endless China boom
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/03/oecd-sees-endless-china-boom-for-monday/}

How Beer Gave Us Civilization
{http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/how-beer-gave-us-civilization.html?_r=0}

The 12 Most Controversial Facts In Mathematics
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-controversial-math-problems-2013-3

Friday 22 March

Jim O'Neill on BRICS
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/departing-goldman-sachs-exec-still-sees-bright-future-for-bric-nations-a-890194.html}

The Next Wave Forget indexing. In the emerging markets, a more complicated global economy calls for a more sophisticated strategy. Here it is..
{http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704836204578354410146165172.html?mod=BOL_twm_ls#articleTabs_article%3D1}

Britain’s obsession with house prices will ruin us all
{http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/economics/uk/budget-2013-house-prices-obsession-will-ruin-us-all-63200#.UUsmE8Zh7iY.twitter}

Drilling into 3D printing: Gimmick, revolution or spooks' nightmare?
{http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/19/woudhuysen_on_3d_printing/}

Thursday, March 21

Cyprus

Cyprus scrambles to avert meltdown, EU threatens cutoff
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/us-cyprus-parliament-idUSBRE92G03I20130321?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=56943}

Cyprus, Taxes, and Russian Transfer Pricing
{http://econospeak.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cyprus-taxes-and-russian-transfer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+espeak+(EconoSpeak)}

A much better alternative for Cyprus
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/a-much-better-alternative-for-cyprus/}

UK Budget

 FT, Wolf..this is not good enough!
Budget 2013: Shrewd politics disguises brutal economics
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/240a9dca-90b8-11e2-a456-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O9cH3kMv}


Budget 2013: Five ways to fix our national joke
{http://timharford.com/2013/03/budget-2013-five-ways-to-fix-our-national-joke/}


Osborne Doubles Down on U.K.’s Bad Fiscal Bet
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-20/osborne-doubles-down-on-u-k-s-bad-fiscal-bet.html}

This housing boom will be perfect, says Osborne
{http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/this-housing-boom-will-be-perfect-says-osborne-2013032163413}

The 2013 Budget and UK Monetary Policy
{http://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-2013-budget-and-uk-monetary-policy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+MainlyMacro+(mainly+macro)}


and one from last month..but interesting

Secrets of the Rich
{http://www.monbiot.com/2013/02/18/secrets-of-the-rich/}

Wednesday 20th March

A Cypriot game of chicken
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/03/20/1431042/a-cypriot-game-of-chicken/}
&
Cyprus rescue breaks all the rules
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21827922}

Reflections On a Major Debacle
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/reflections-on-a-major-debacle/}

Free courses
{https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&cats=economics}

19th March, Tuesday

UK press-regulation defines "press" so broadly as to include tweeters, Facebook users, bloggers
{http://boingboing.net/2013/03/18/uk-press-regulation-defines.html}

Shanghai Composite: Downtrend continues on global woes
{http://emergingmoney.com/china/shanghai-composite-fxi-ewj-ewh-china/}

China Showing Symptoms of Financial Crisis: Report
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/100562024}

*And Cyprus....


Cyprus crisis will soon blow over
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cyprus-crisis-will-soon-blow-over-2013-03-18?dist=lcountdown}

Everything you need to know about the Cyprus bailout, in one FAQ
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-cyprus-bailout-in-one-faq-2/}

Cyprus races to rework savings tax after closing banks till Thursday - as it happened
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/18/eurozone-crisis-cyprus-bailout-savers-markets}

To Be Ireland or Iceland?—The Real Choice Before Cypriot Voters
{http://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime/?p=3352}

Cyprus: The next blunder
{http://www.voxeu.org/article/cyprus-next-blunder}

*Osborne Bashing & Cyprus

Finance Minister's Ignorant Comments About Cyprus Are Why The UK Economy Is Such A Disaster
{http://www.businessinsider.com/george-osbornes-comments-about-cyprus-2013-3}
&
Island Nightmare
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/island-nightmares/}

Monday 18th

Echoes of 1933: the Cyprus Heist
{http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/echoes-of-1933-cyprus-heist.html}

Why today’s Cyprus bailout could be the start of the next financial crisis
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/16/why-todays-cyprus-bailout-could-be-the-start-of-the-next-financial-crisis/}

Put a German Flag in Cyprus; Poker or Chicken? Cyprus Archbishop Says "Leave the Eurozone and Readopt the Cyprus Pound"
{http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com.au/#g4O5pKK6eWAsr6hL.99}


FT, The fallout: Cyprus edition
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/03/18/1426812/the-fallout-cyprus-edition/}

Cyprus Levy: Historical Precedents
{http://carolabinder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cyprus-levy-historical-precedents.html}

F*ckin’ Europe. Again.
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/03/17/fckin-europe-again/}

A U.S. Naval Blockade of China?
{http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2013/03/13/a-u-s-naval-blockade-of-china/}

15th March

The flaw at the heart of Keynesian economics
{http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=20017}

Will the sterling drama turn into a crisis?
{http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2013/03/14/will-the-sterling-drama-turn-into-a-crisis/}

A Tale of Two Londons
{http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/04/mysterious-residents-one-hyde-park-london}

Britain’s austerity is indefensible
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1670a3d2-880f-11e2-8e3c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2NQc3UkhI}

Paul Krugman Is Brilliant, but Is He Meta-Rational?
{http://theumlaut.com/2013/03/13/paul-krugman-is-brilliant-but-is-he-meta-rational/}

Sentiment Getting Frothy
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/sentiment-getting-frothy/}
&
Bullish Sentiment Surges by Most Since 2010
{http://pragcap.com/bullish-sentiment-surges-by-most-since-2010?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter}

Private equity crash could trigger next wave of financial crisis, Bank warns
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/14/private-equity-financial-crisis-bank-of-england}

Thursday March 14

Everyone's Got The Chinese 'Ghost Towns' Story All Wrong
{http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ghost-town-story-is-overblown-2013-3}

10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I STARTED TRADING
{http://bclund.com/2013/03/12/10-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-started-trading/}

Britain’s fiscal failure - Cameron v's Wolf
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/13/britains-fiscal-failure/}

Solving the puzzle of rising markets
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21773337}

13th March pick

How to Fix America's Wealth Inequality: Teach Americans to Be Cheap
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/how-to-fix-americas-wealth-inequality-teach-americans-to-be-cheap/273940/}

Japan cracks seabed 'ice gas' in dramatic leap for global energy
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9924836/Japan-cracks-seabed-ice-gas-in-dramatic-leap-for-global-energy.html}

George Osborne needs shock-and-awe tax cuts to avert a 1970s-style disaster
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9925533/George-Osborne-needs-shock-and-awe-tax-cuts-to-avert-a-1970s-style-disaster.html}

The Most Inevitable Headline of All Time
{http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/03/08/the-most-inevitable-headline-of-all-time.aspx}

The Price of Green Energy: Is Germany Killing the Environment to Save It?
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-renewable-energy-policy-takes-toll-on-nature-conservation-a-888094.html}

Tuesday 12th March

Spot China's "Hot Money" Time-Bomb
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-11/spot-chinas-hot-money-time-bomb}

Is the commodity sell-off overdone?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/03/11/1417812/is-the-commodity-sell-off-overdone/}

A short history of austerity: it almost never works
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/11/austerity-almost-never-works?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fcommentisfree%2Frss+%28Comment+is+free%29}

You Say You’re a Homeowner and Not a Renter? Think Again.
{http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2013/03/you-say-youre-a-homeowner-and-not-a-renter-think-again.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FRUQt+%28macroblog%29}

Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments
{http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512381/astrobiologists-find-ancient-fossils-in-fireball-fragments/}

Rigging the I.P.O. Game
{http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/nocera-rigging-the-ipo-game.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0}

The life cycle of the investment banker
{http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/curriculum-vitae.html}

11 Math Tricks That Will Make Your Life So Much Easier
{http://www.businessinsider.com/11-awesome-math-tricks-that-will-make-your-life-so-much-easier-2013-2#the-rule-of-72-1}

Monday 11th

Britain: a nation in decay
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/08/britain-economy-long-term-fix}

Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon
{http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre9270xw-us-higgs/}

Japan Earthquake, 2 Years Later: Before and After
{http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/japan-earthquake-2-years-later-before-and-after/100469/}

The Best Tweets for Your Money
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324662404578334890346873944.html?mod=googlenews_wsj}

Friday 8th March

Analyst: I Ain’t Afraid of No ‘Ghost Cities’
{http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/02/27/top-china-analyst-i-aint-afraid-of-no-ghost-cities/}

THE CURRENT STATE OF THE MACRO POLICY DEBATE
{http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/03/the-current-state-of-the-macro-policy-debate-musings-on-paul-krugman-vs-the-three-tweeters-of-brussels.html}

Why don’t economists understand money? (new video)
{http://www.positivemoney.org/2013/03/why-dont-economists-understand-money-new-video/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter}

Reviewed: The Locust and the Bee - Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future by Geoff Mulgan
{http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2013/02/reviewed-locust-and-bee-predators-and-creators-capitalisms-future-geoff-mulgan}

Gold miners have not been this oversold in a long time.
{http://theshortsideoflong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/gold-miners-in-crash-mode.html}

Olive Oil Shortage: Prices Soar As Effects Of Devastating Drought Hit Marketplaces
{http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/olive-oil-shortage_n_2819297.html}

Thursday 7th

The rise and fall of Andy Zaky (death of the apple fund)
{http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/04/apple-zaky-bullish-cross/}

US Stock market is shrinking
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/03/06/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-stock-market-is-shrinking/}

Secret world of the internet
{http://www.businessinsider.com/tor-silk-road-deep-web-2013-3#well-let-this-one-speak-for-itself-3}

6th

Why It’s Smart to Be Reckless on Wall Street
{http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/02/27/why-its-smart-to-be-reckless-on-wall-street/}

China Game ON – What Did You Expect?
{http://emergingmoney.com/china/china-game-on-what-did-you-expect/}

Pound’s World-Worst Drop Seen Growing in Pimco Math
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-05/pound-s-world-worst-drop-seen-growing-in-pimco-math-currencies.html}

Australian miners fired for 'Harlem Shake', Up to 4,000 videos of Harlem Shake variations are uploaded on to the internet daily.
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/04/harlem-shake-australian-miners}

5th

No end in sight to stand-off in Guangdong village over land deal

{http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1173798/no-end-sight-stand-guangdong-village-over-land-deal}

Brave Ireland is the poster-child of EMU cruelty and folly

{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9906230/Brave-Ireland-is-the-poster-child-of-EMU-cruelty-and-folly.html}

Greater Vancouver housing sales plunge 29%

{http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/greater-vancouver-housing-sales-plunge-29/article9261759/}

Why CEO shock at ‘cash for access’ is overstated

{http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2013/03/why-ceo-shock-at-cash-for-access-is-overstated/}

&

FSA crackdown on cash for CEO access

{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/084a4bdc-84db-11e2-891d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2MeDT4ohw}

Monday 4th March

Good video on China's property bubble
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/03/60-minutes-does-chinas-property-bubble/}

Greece reclassified to 'emerging market' from developed
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9904969/Greece-reclassified-to-emerging-market-from-developed.html}

List on lists, 10 amazing scientific facts about lists
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2013/feb/28/10-science-facts-about-lists}

More Bambi
{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la-WBCSVSt0&feature=youtube_gdata_player}

Friday 1st March

Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video
{http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video/w}

DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels
{http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/diy-weapons-of-the-syrian-rebels/100461/}

STREET ARTISTS PAINTS DAVID BECKHAM EATING PIES
{http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/300901/Street-artists-paints-David-Beckham-eating-pies/}

The false-alarmists behind this shrinking population panic
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/26/false-alarm-shrinking-population-panic}

'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/marijuana-cannon-us-border-seized-mexico?CMP=twt_gu}

World from Berlin: 'Europe Can't Afford an Ungovernable Italy'
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/german-press-urges-italian-politicians-to-think-of-euro-zone-a-885889.html}

China: Carlyle accuses Buffett adviser of fraud
{http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/02/27/china-carlyle-accuses-buffett-adviser-of-fraud/#axzz2MBwwEXwV}