What I'm reading these days - 3rd Week of September

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:
☆☆☆ One-Size-Fits-All Monetary Policy: Europe and the U.S.
QE would be right for Europe, too
What can Ireland learn from Iceland?
Europe risks going the way of Japan
☆☆ German Parties Offer Rival Interpretations of Euro Ruling
☆☆ We’ll settle this internal devaluation question quicker than we thought
☆☆☆ The euro’s paradox
☆☆☆ Deposit Flight From Europe Banks Eroding Common Currency

France
Tax 'traitors' widen divisions in belt-tightening France

Greece
Coke Hellenic: “Seeking to better leverage”
Euro or No, Economics of Everyday Greek Life Is Eroding
Benefiting from Greece’s brain drain
☆☆☆☆ A Greek Exit From The Euro Is Now 'More Manageable And Hence More Likely'

Slovenia
Slovenia Encounters Debt Trouble and May Need Bailout

Spain
Theory of Spain’s political class
Come on Mr Rajoy, make that call
Spanish auction: damned if you do/ don’t


On the US Economy:
Tax Cuts for Wealthy Linked to Income Inequality
Bernanke on the Brink
Effects of QE3
Debunking the “It’s China’s Fault That American Worker Real Wages are Falling” Myth
☆☆☆ The Real Meaning of the 1-Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
The Short Run is Short
Thresholds in the economic effects of oil prices
☆☆☆☆ Retail Investors "Just Say No" To Bernanke's Artificial Wealth Effect


World Economy and Economics in general:
Citigroup Puts the Fun Back in Taking Huge Losses
The law that explains the folly of bank regulation
The big problem with small risks
☆☆☆ Paul Krugman's Baltic Problem
World Hunger: The Problem Left Behind
☆☆☆☆ A parable of one-way free trade
Currency wars redux
Esma, and Wesley Crusher, on financial sector pay
Do bailed-out banks remain bad, while good banks behave better?
Too much stuff: the deadweight loss from overconsumption
Beyond happiness

UK
RIP (old) RPI and hello a happier Chancellor

Russia
Russia reveals shiny state secret: It's awash in diamonds

China
Hayek on the standing committee
☆☆☆ Rehypothecated "Ghost" Steel Pledged as Assets in China, Nowhere to be Found; Did it Ever Exist?
China’s money outflow continued in August
Commodity encumbrance and Joseph’s storage play
☆☆☆☆ Another Bearish China Signal? Expats Starting to Decamp
☆☆☆☆ China's shifting demographics and their impact

Japan
The BoJ’s feud-driven asset purchase extension
A currency war campaign plan for the BoJ


Politics:
Libya's Downward Spiral
☆ Immigration and voting for the extreme right

China-Japan
Anti-Japan protests reignite across China on occupation anniversary
Beijing hints at bond attack on Japan
Chinese General: Prepare for Combat
Japanese Automakers Bracing for Bashing in China Protests

Arab Revolts
Well, no, I'm not putting anything here, I'm way too polarized on the issue. I will just note that, according to the Koran, the paragon of virtue, Mohammed:

- married a first cousin, who had been previously the wife of his (adopted) son (Zaynab)

- married a jewish girl (Safiyya, 17 years old)

- married a 7 years old kid, consummating the marriage when she was 9 or 10, while he was 54 (Aisha )

Just saying.


Miscellania:
How the Aeroscraft Will Work
Scientists make monkeys smarter using brain implants. Could you be next?
It’s not what you know, but who you know: The role of connections in academic promotions
Printing Evolves: An Inkjet for Living Tissue
Why letting oil guys play with radioactive isotopes might be a bad idea
☆☆☆ 'Warp drive' may be more feasible than thought, scientists say
Angela Merkel's austerity postergirl, the thrifty Swabian housewife
TV Couples Destroy Our Real-Life Relationships
Enormous Roman Mosaic Found Under Farmer's Field
Can a Google autocomplete function be libelous?

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

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:
☆☆☆ Too central a banker?
☆☆☆☆ The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It
☆☆☆ Why early sovereign default could save the euro
☆☆☆☆ German domino theory and book-cooking
Why Germany doesn’t want to kick Greece out of the euro
☆ The first sovereign debt crisis in the EU
Eurozone building blocks are falling into place
A Setback for Germany's Euroskeptics

Greece
Jobless Greeks Resolved to Work Clean Toilets in Sweden
Inspectors Reject Some Cuts by Greece
Primary Greek tax evaders are the professional classes
Greek Islands for Sale

Italy
Move by E.C.B. Puts Pressure on Monti Government

Spain
Giving your right arm for 600,000 euros
☆ A parallel euro-verse
Placements privadas, in Spain

Portugal
Portugal having a better time of it…
The poster child of austerity is lost


On the US Economy:
☆☆☆ August payrolls 96,000 and unemployment rate declines to 8.1 per cent
☆☆☆☆ Fed Watch: Another Jobs Disappointment
We spend $750 billion on unnecessary health care. 
Economists have underestimated the severity of structural shift in US employment dynamics
☆☆☆ Gordon: Is US Economic Growth Over?
Moody’s update on US rating, threatens downgrade
Why Men Fail
Behind the Decline in Incomes
☆☆☆☆ QE3 arrives
☆☆ The Fed will buy over half of all new agency MBS
Job creation: Where are the startups?


World Economy and Economics in general:
☆☆☆☆ New Rules
The necessity of a college education
The Repricing of Oil
☆☆☆ As Low Rates Depress Savers, Governments Reap Benefits
☆ Myths of ancient China
When the US sneezes at the edge of a fiscal cliff, the rest of the world should worry
The Trading Game: A Simple, Easy to Run In-Class Experiment
Is that robot going to steal your job?
Paul Krugman's Baltic Problem

China
China stimulates, sort of
Chinese steel mills hope this stimulus thing is for real
☆☆ In China, Silvercorp critic caught in campaign by police
How technology is killing the Asian growth miracle
Can Asia avoid the middle-income trap?
☆☆☆ Are Chinese Banks Hiding “The Mother of All Debt Bombs”?
Shadow Bankers Vanishing Leave China Victims Seeing Scams
Chinese corporate risk looks pretty significant


Politics:
☆☆ Separatism Threatens the Future of Spain
China VP Xi’s Absence From Public Fuels Speculation
Dutch apparently decide they do like Europe after all

USA
☆☆☆☆ Inside story of US envoy's assassination
U.S. rebuts British report on Libya
State Department sets up 24-hour monitoring team for embassy crisis
White House details ‘destructive’ spending cut
Black Flag of Islam Flies Over American Embassy in Tunisia

Israel-Iran
In the streets Iran's currency trades at 52% discount to the official exchange rate
European Lenders Keep Ties to Iran


Miscellania:
☆☆ The Distribution of Summer Temperatures,1950-2011
The Serious Eats Guide to Sandwiches
How to protect New York from disaster
Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth
Europeans Dress Better Than Americans: Fact
☆☆☆☆ Maximize Your Chances of Picking a Satisfying Partner
Treatment With Fungi Makes a Modern Violin Sound Like a Stradivarius
☆☆ Americans are world's worst tourists, says new survey
☆☆ The Rudest (And Friendliest) Nations For Travelers

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

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:
German Economy Minister Supports Weidmann in Bond Buy Opposition
☆☆☆ Eurozone PMIs: from still bad to worse
☆☆☆☆ Eurozone lending rate divergence grows (page 17 in particular)
☆☆☆☆ Financial fragmentation in many parts
☆☆☆☆ Euroisation and de-euroisation in one handy chart
☆☆☆ The Eurozone's giant sucking sound
The European Central Bank's Ongoing Power Grab
☆☆☆ Financial fragmentation across the Eurozone can not be ended by extending ECB credit to periphery governments
☆☆☆☆ OMT!
☆☆☆ Seniority, the SMP, and the OMT
Financial markets cheer the death of the Bundesbank

France
Hollande Business Policies Faulted By French Executives
Number of French unemployed passes 3 million

Greece
☆☆ U.S. Companies Brace for an Exit From the Euro by Greece
☆☆☆ Germans write off Greece, says poll
Greek tax evasion, mapped and crunched

Portugal
☆☆ Portugal's biggest risk is Spain
The ECB’s possible Portugese gambit

Spain
Bankia, el banco malo
Spanish PM calls for eurobonds within a few years
Spain’s funding costs post a Draghi-ing
☆☆ The Contrast Between Italy And Spain's Capital Outflow Is Striking
Draghi, Spanish banks, and revisiting the collateral issue


On the US Economy:
American Character Is at Stake
75% of Homeless Youth Use at Least One Social Network
☆☆ Bernanke, the speech (and that market functioning issue)
☆☆☆ Time to resurrect the ‘missing variable’?
Student loan delinquencies soar
Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds
Grading Obama's Economics
Grading Robert Samuelson's Grading of Obama
☆☆ Quick Data Notes
☆☆☆☆ Income & The Middle Class
Don’t Make Banks Too Small to Succeed


World Economy and Economics in general:
Online universities blossom in Asia
Home workers or home shirkers?
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
☆☆ Why you won’t find hyperinflation in democracies
☆☆ Is banking losing its appeal?
☆☆☆ We can't grow ourselves out of debt, no matter what the Federal Reserve does
☆☆☆☆ Labor Day 2012: The Future Of Work
Sentences to ponder
In authoritarian North Korea, hints of reform
☆☆☆☆ Jim Reid’s journey into the unknown
☆☆ The curious case of William White
Experts Issue a Warning as Food Prices Shoot Up

China
Chinese Housing: A Reply
China's steel traders expose banks' bad debts
China’s rail cargo volume
Darker Chinese clouds
☆☆☆ China Said To Plan Boosting Export-Tax Rebates On Some Goods
☆☆☆ China’s overinvestment: the problem of having too much

Other countries
Thousands stranded by Lufthansa cabin crew strike
Aviva sacks more than 1,300 workers by mistake


Politics:
Adverse selection in political discourse
☆☆☆ Islamists installed in Egypt state institutions

USA
☆☆☆☆ Barack Obama and the limitations of probabilistic decision making
First Black President Can’t Help Blacks Stem Wealth Drop

Israel-Iran
☆☆☆☆ Alarming parallels between current Middle East tensions and events leading up to WWI
☆☆☆ U.S. Scales Back Military Exercise with Israel, Affecting Potential Iran Strike
Netanyahu urges international "red lines" to stop Iran
Iran may be successfully smuggling oil, avoiding customs


Miscellania:
☆☆☆☆ Law Enforcement and the Police
Harvard Says 125 Students May Have Cheated on a Final Exam
Harvard Students in Cheating Scandal Say Collaboration Was Accepted
☆☆☆ Liberal education
IBM Envisions Watson As Supercharged Siri For Businesses
☆ Driverless cars promise to reduce road accidents, ease congestion and revolutionise transport
☆ Self-Driving Cars Approved By California Legislature
Yes, I was hacked. Hard.
Potluck for the Eyeballs: Amazon’s Streaming Service
☆☆ Muslims From Abroad Are Thriving in Catholic Colleges
☆☆☆ Liberal education
☆☆☆ Can You Die From A Nightmare?