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Good Reads from the Weekend

An Occasional Roundup of What’s Online from RGE’s Executive Editor:  

Economists seek for the post-crash holy grail

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303891804575576523458637864.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

In the counter-intuitive department: why corporate America needs Obama right now much more than he needs it

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/79573/obama-hold-big-business-chamber-of-commerce-tea-party

Leaving the euro? it’s doable, but not advisable

http://www.economist.com/node/17629757

Nice app from the gumshoes at ProPublica on exactly which banks received what (and still owe what) re: TARP funds.

http://projects.propublica.org/tables/treasury-facilities-loans

On Amazon’s decision to boot WikiLeaks off its servers

http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/why_amazon_caved_and_what_it_m.php?page=all

The cash continues to flow from MENA, especially the Gulf, to al-Qaida

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/world/middleeast/06wikileaks-financing.html?_r=1&hp

FP interviews with Shiller and El-Erian on the significance of the financial crisis

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/talking_to_the_smart_crowd

No Responses to “Good Reads from the Weekend”

GuestDecember 13th, 2010 at 10:26 am

is it as clear to everyone else as it is to us that, tada,’if politics is the art of the possible’,andthe MEDIA controls the message,we are the MEDIA, we control the message!which allows the politicians to do the right thing!good ideas take on a life of their own!as colon powell likes to say,’you can do many things as long as you don’t care who gets the credit’.happy holidays

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