What I'm reading these days - 5th Week of August

Random articles I've found interesting over the last week or so, posted in each section from the oldest to the newest. Mostly for my own reminder, but if you feel like commenting, I'm always up for an interesting discussion in the comments! I've added a star system to signify the articles I found more interesting than the average interesting needed to get on the page and/or articles I very much agree with.

On the Euro Crisis:
☆ Eurozone needs a German sovereign wealth fund
☆☆☆☆ Judgment Day for the Eurozone
ECB's bond purchases should start with Portugal
Troika ties hands to mast, waits for Greece
Waiting, and positioning, for the eurozone crisis reboot
☆☆☆☆ Charting sovereign bond holdings across the eurozone
☆☆☆ Balkanisierung
☆ Crisis-Hit Countries May Have Turned the Corner
Converging competitiveness and balance sheet recessions
☆☆ Time for eurozone to reach for the gold reserves?

Greece
PM faces tough talks with coalition partners
Greece Makes Late Push on Cuts

Spain
For Spain's Jobless, Time Equals Money
☆ Catalonia heightens Spanish debt fears

Related - Other European countries
Foreigners grab lion’s share of UK takeovers
☆☆☆ As Dutch zeal for Europe wanes, election brings risks
☆☆☆ Austerity goes to the polls, Dutch edition
☆☆☆☆ German economy converging with the Eurozone's
Portugal and a second bailout


On the US Economy:
Insurers face big agriculture losses
☆☆☆ Why No Prosecutions
Our Dis-Integrated Economy
A look at U.S. income growth
College Becoming the New Caste System
McCulley and Rosenberg: This Indicator Could be Pointing to Recession
New Real Estate Train Wreck Coming: Securitized Rentals
☆☆☆☆ Ahhhh! No robots!


World Economy and Economics in general:
China
What China Could Be Building
☆☆☆☆ The Real Risk of the Chinese Economy
☆☆ Finance is in need of a technological revolution
☆☆☆ Shipyards struggle to stay above water
[China myths] The ever-increasing hunger for steel
☆☆ China in Revolt

Japan
Japan Cuts Economic Assessment As BNP Says Contraction Looms

Other
☆☆ Don’t judge a book by its cover price
Julius Baer confirms theft of client data
The energy-water nexus, 2012 edition
A Youthful Populace Helps Make the Philippines an Economic Bright Spot in Asia
☆☆ Is Australia… in the same boat as Europe?
☆☆☆ Poor In India Starve As Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion Of Food
☆☆☆☆ Behind the New View of Globalization
☆☆ The Complete 'Ranked' World Calendar Of Events To The End Of The Year
Bubbles and buildings: time to be afraid
☆ Okun's Law is doing fine


Politics:
Gold: The Republican Death Wish
☆☆☆ What if it’s a status quo election?
Economists for Romney
☆☆ Christie Goes Big
☆☆☆ Unleashing the Campaign Contributions of Corporations
☆☆ Our Corrupted Elections: For Sale to Highest Bidder
☆☆☆☆ How Radical Islam Infiltrates Kosovo


Miscellania:
☆☆ How Facebook design tricks people into trading away privacy
☆☆☆☆ Made ‘Giant Leap’ as First Man to Step on Moon
Keep in mind as you put together your Neil Armstrong packages tonight…
The path dependence of astronaut walks
The Ten Most Dangerous Things Business Schools Teach MBAs
☆☆ Hey! You! Get off of my cloud…
Five shades of grey on Apple-Samsung
The coming disruption in education
The world’s longest bus seats 256 people
☆☆☆ Virtual Worlds dying – but slowly
☆☆ Google, Apple CEOs in secret patent talks
☆☆ Apple's Crown Jewel: Valuing the iPhone Franchise

What I'm reading these days - 2nd Week of August

Random articles I've found interesting over the last week or so, posted in each section from the oldest to the newest. Mostly for my own reminder, but if you feel like commenting, I'm always up for an interesting discussion in the comments! I've added a star system to signify the articles I found more interesting than the average interesting needed to get on the page and/or articles I very much agree with.

On the Euro Crisis:
☆☆☆☆ Wall St banks prepare for euro break-up
Watching the ECB play chess
Europe's Consumers Tighten Their Belts
Paper: The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
☆☆☆☆ Ultravox populi, vox debita
☆☆ To what degree is the ECB flying blind?
☆☆☆ Ironische Bundesbank lessons
Is the ECB Risking Insolvency? Does it Matter?
How to kill a bank, Denmark edition

Greece
Greeks Can No Longer Afford Paying Expensive Bribes
On Greece and spilt milk

Spain
The corporate deposit flight from Spain
Madrid Hints at a Possible Bailout

Italy
Economic crisis tests Italian family, Church opens doors
Debt-ridden Italy sells off its castles

Related - Other European countries
Norges Bank’s curious dilemma
Indigestion for ‘les Riches’ in a Plan for Higher Taxes
☆☆☆☆ German Exports Fell In June As Crisis Curbed Euro-Area Demand

On the US Economy:
July Employment Report: 163,000 Jobs, 8.3% Unemployment
Why Washington Accepts Mass Unemployment
The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Workforce
☆☆ Generation Squeezed
☆☆ Robert Samuelson's Generation Squeezed is Victimized by the One Percent, Not their Parents
☆☆ A Slowdown in Growth, an Increase in Income Inequality
The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State
☆☆☆☆ Collision Course: Why Democrats Must Back Entitlement Reform
The troubled trade deal with South Korea
Fed Watch: US Baseline
☆ Cash is king for US multinationals
☆☆☆ David Rosenberg: The Coming Negative Export Shock
☆☆☆☆ Real Wages Much Lower Than They Were Four Decades Ago
Yes, College Is Worth It — With Some Caveats


World Economy and Economics in general:
China
☆ The New Chinese Millionaires
☆☆☆☆ For the first time since 1998 more money leaves China than enters it
Sell Swiss watches
The sound of falling Chinese USD reserves…
☆☆☆ China's answer to subprime bets: the "Golden Elephant"
Chinese banks’ Weapons of Mass Ponzi
China’s doubling-down continues, via local governments
Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas

Japan
What happened to Japan?
The Japanese tragedy, causes and consequences
☆☆☆ A survival skill in shrinking Japan: Learn English

Other
☆☆☆ Capitalism no longer exists: it's communism for the rich
The danger of repo
☆☆☆☆ Chart of the day, HFT edition
The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?
☆ The Aussie dollar – from South Pacific peso to Southern franc
Brazil facts
Golden deposit troubles in Poland
☆☆☆☆ Why investors should avoid hedge funds
No More Growth Miracles
Inside the Surprisingly Lucrative World of Cardboard Theft
Reflections on the crisis soundtrack of our lives
☆ The biggest overproduction for any quarter since 1998
The Bankruptcy Of The World's Oldest Shipper Signals Rough Waters Ahead For The Battered Industry


Politics:
Israeli PM says time running out to stop Iran's nuclear programme
Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels
Iran's birth control policy sent birthrate tumbling
Thursday's the Day to Go All the Way for Civic Duty in Singapore
☆☆☆☆ StanChart, Iran, and a Swift allegation
China’s Political Paralysis
☆☆☆☆ "The Beijing Conference": See How China Quietly Took Over Africa
☆☆☆☆ Admitting to Bias


Miscellania:
☆☆ The Credit Illusion
Facing Hard Time? Hire a Replacement
☆☆☆ Olympic medal predictions
Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Home Wi-Fi
Roll up for the financial crisis tour
Must-Read Hansen: ‘Climate Change Is Here — And Worse Than We Thought’
☆☆ Dear Mark Zuckerberg
☆☆ Facebook’s Faustian bargain
Conscientious consumption and culture war
Chemotherapy can backfire and boost cancer growth: study
☆☆ The intelligent textbook that helps students learn
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers

What I'm reading these days - 1st Week of August

Random articles I've found interesting over the last week or so, posted in each section from the oldest to the newest. Mostly for my own reminder, but if you feel like commenting, I'm always up for an interesting discussion in the comments! I've added a star system to signify the articles I found more interesting than the average interesting needed to get on the page and/or articles I very much agree with.

On the Euro Crisis:
Why the Olympics might let Draghi stay at the beach
The structure of EU debt and bonus pop quiz!
What Draghi Didn’t Do
☆ Here Bee Draghi
Winning over Buba
The Euromess Continues
Dos and Don’ts for the European Central Bank
☆☆☆ The collapse in trust in the EU and its institutions
More on Draghi’s “The ECB is All In” Bluff
Fed Watch: Quick Euro Update
Joblessness in Euro Zone Reaches Record High
This Isn’t The Draghi You’re Looking For
☆☆ Draghi: “Over the coming weeks, we will design the appropriate modalities for such policy measures”
☆☆☆ There be Draghis
☆☆☆ Was Draghi really a disaster?
☆☆ Second Policy Failure of the Week

Greece
☆ 23 crucial days for Greece
A painful Greek symbol
☆☆ For Greece there is an alternative to austerity – as Argentina proved

Italy
Regional debt in Italy is not like regional debt in Spain

Related - Other European countries
☆ The SNB eats euro cake
☆ The changing ingredients of that Swiss cake
UK GDP revision du jour


On the US Economy:
The Hobbled Recovery


Economy and Economics in general:
Dani Rodrik redoes his convergence result with better data
☆ Bail-ins, an exit consent challenge
Exit consents, UK law, and common sense
☆☆☆ Long-Term Unemployment: Anatomy of the Scourge
When simplicity is a real asset
Markets in everything, Indonesian traffic jockeys
☆☆☆☆ The strong yen robs from youth, but there is not much awareness here yet of generational inequalities
☆☆☆ The problem of Japan’s household savings
☆☆ When are insurers systemically important?
☆☆☆☆ The Great Factor-Price Equalization
☆☆☆ Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment
The Meaning of China’s Economic Slowdown
☆☆☆ How to Cut Skilled-Labor Costs
When large-scale complex IT systems break
☆☆☆ A hard day’s Knight


Politics:
Wall Street Already Betting On Who Wins in November
☆☆☆ Al-Qaida turns tide for rebels in battle for eastern Syria
Islamists in North Mali Stone Couple to Death
☆ Egypt official: leader's letter to israel is fake
Mercosur embraces Chavez despite protests from business
Hacking Herman
☆ Shirin Aliabadi and the Iranian Girls

Miscellania:
☆☆ Deadly ebola outbreak in Ugandan capital
☆ Three PowerPoint tips you really need to know
Which Records Get Shattered?
How to Boost Your Medal Count in Seven Easy Steps
Chilli used by Indian army in weaponry is hot property for poor farmers
☆ A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away
☆☆☆ What is Deliberate Practice
Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano
More Germans leave their estates to Israel