My morning reads:

• Bartlett: 7 Reasons the Fed Should Raise Interest Rates (Fiscal Times)
• A Huge Break in the LIBOR Banking Investigation (Rolling Stone) see also Banker to the Bankers Knows the Numbers Are Lying (Bloomberg)
• Hulbert: Has a major bear market in gold begun? (Market Watch)
• John Paulson’s Very Bad Year (Businessweek) see also Paulson Forgoes Prognostication as Greatest Trade Sequel Flops (Bloomberg)
• When High-End Meets Hoi Polloi, It’s Usually Bad News (Barron’s)
• Overseas buyers seek shelter in U.S. real estate (Market Watch)
• The Myth That Entitlements Ruin Countries, Busted in 1 Little Graph (Atlantic)
• How Ronald Reagan Socialized Emergency Room Medicine in the United States (Eclecta Blog)
• Is Grover Norquist’s Steel Grip On The GOP Finally Slipping? (TPM)
• Your E-Book Is Reading You (WSJ) see also A Few Good Ideas for Products (Circuits)

What are you reading?

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U.S. Banks Face Different Sort of Debt Dilemma

Source: WSJ

Source: The Big Picture

My afternoon reading:

• Hedge or Bet? Parsing a Trade (WSJ)
• Q&A on Facebook’s IPO: What does it mean for you? (Washington Post)
• Is Dimon’s ‘Stupid’ Defense a Smart Move? (Yahoo Finance) see also Polishing the Dimon Principle (WSJ)
• Accidentally Released – and Incredibly Embarrassing – Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in ‘Naked Short Selling’ (Rolling Stone)
• Assessing the Representativeness of Public Opinion Surveys (People Press)
• Ronald Reagan on Marriage:  Love, Dad (Letters Of Note)
• Let The Honeymoon Begin: Romney’s Poll Numbers Perk Up (TPM)
• The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems (Jonathan Stray)
• Is Death Bad for You? (The Chronicle)
• Five Lessons From Music’s Most Feared Manager, Led Zeppelin’s Peter Grant (Businessweek)

What are you reading?

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Bank Investors Bail on Too-Big-to-Fail

Source: WSJ

Source: The Big Picture

My early morning reads:

• 7 Reasons I Don’t Mind Sitting in Cash (Joe Fahmy)
• The hedge funds that are profiting off JPMorgan’s bad trade (CNN Fortune) see also As One JPMorgan Trader Sold Risky Contracts, Another (WTF?!?) One Bought Them (DealBook)
• Currency Markets Rev Up (WSJ)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide To The ETF Galaxy (ETF Database)
• Fun! Greek Exit Caption Contest ! (Alphaville.com)
• OPEC, China and an Airline: Unlikely Allies for U.S. Drivers (WSJ)
• 5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity (Fast Company)
• Let The Honeymoon Begin: Romney’s Poll Numbers Perk Up (TPM)
• Advertising People Are Not Normal (Fast Co Create)
• Your data has a secret, but you — yes, you — can make it talk (Gigaom)

What are you reading?

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The German motor

Source:The Economist

Source: The Big Picture

My afternoon train reading:

• When Will Main Street Return to Wall Street? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Barron’s) versus Kass: Buy in May and Go Away (TheStreet)
• Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1% (WSJ)
• Bank Loan Bundling Investigated by Biden-Schneiderman (Bloomberg)
• Larry Summers vs. the long-termers (Washington Post)
• Occupy London Tour Shows Bankers Profiting Amid Poverty (Bloomberg)
• The Climate Fixers (New Yorker)
• Felix Salmon: The neutrino arbitrage (Reuters)
• Gay Marriage Shows Obama Dilemma in Battleground States  (Bloomberg) see also The Hunt For Bin Laden: What Exactly Did Obama Do? (TPM)
• Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era (Bloomberg)
• Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? (MIT Technology Review)

What are you reading?

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Give us austerity, but not yet

Source: Economist

Source: The Big Picture