Wednesday 20th Nov

Will China and India Destroy the World?
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/will-china-and-india-destroy-the-world-.html}

Secular stagnation, bubbles & inequality
{http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2013/11/secular-stagnation-bubbles-inequality}

Chinese enter the bitcoin frenzy
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/11/chinese-enter-the-bitcoin-frenzy/}

Russian History in one GIF

Tuesday 19th

Actually, Economists Can Predict Financial Crises
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-15/actually-economists-can-predict-financial-crises.html}

Why No Bankers Go to Jail
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/why-no-bankers-go-to-jail.html}

Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity
{http://io9.com/viral-journalism-and-the-valley-of-ambiguity-1463178368}

A crypto crisis or a crypto triumph?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/18/1696832/a-crypto-crisis-or-a-crypto-triumph/}

The Economics of Rob Ford
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2013/11/the-economics-of-rob-ford.html#more}

18th November, Monday

Wall Street Isn’t Worth It
{http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/wall-street-isnt-worth-it/}

This Chart Destroys That Famous Myth About The Dollar Losing 90% Of Its Value
{http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-destroys-that-famous-myth-about-the-dollar-losing-90-of-its-value-2013-11} oh dear..

Stupid Things Finance People Say
{http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/14/stupid-things-finance-people-say.aspx}

Friday

ECB ready to print, Germany ready to scream
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026052/ecb-ready-to-print-germany-ready-to-scream/}

Quantitative easing, not as we know it
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/11/unconventional-monetary-policy}


Where To Find The Weirdest Stuff On The Internet
{http://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-subreddits-2013-11}

Thursday

2 reads

Recollecting the false messiah of peak oil
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/13/1693722/recollecting-the-false-messiah-of-peak-oil/}
"After we finished our bearish screed, the fund manager stood up, snickered and shot us a look of haughty derision. He then walked over to his bookshelf, took out a book and slid the book across the desk. The book was Matt Simmons’ Twilight in the Desert.
Then, while still maintaining that air of superiority, he told us that this (pointing to Mr. Simmons’ book) was the reason why we would never see oil below $100 a barrel again."

Books that Changed My Life
{http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/11/books-that-changed-my-life/}

Wednesday

10 Laws of Stock Market Bubbles
{http://www.thestreet.com/story/12104017/1/kass-10-laws-of-stock-market-bubbles.html}

Buy emerging mkts                                          
{http://www.indexuniverse.com/sections/etf-strategist-corner/20434-swedroe-questioning-emerging-markets.html}                
                                                             

the hundred best novels? as of 1898
{http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2013/10/not-the-hundred-best-novels.html}

Winklevosses: Bitcoin worth at least 100 times more
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/101190181}

Investing

Monday 11th

The Hong Kong dollar. Buy now at 1983 prices
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21588139-after-30-years-hong-kongs-peg-american-dollar-still-going-strong-buy-now}

November the 6th, Wednesday

Gold Miners Extremely Oversold
{http://theshortsideoflong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/gold-miners-extremely-oversold.html}

Why markets are holding their breath on China
{http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/11/5/china/why-markets-are-holding-their-breath-china}

Heading toward a Cliff, bubble chat
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/heading-toward-a-cliff/}

Bitcoin Is Broken
{http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/}

When will the people who called Bitcoin a bubble admit they were wrong?
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/05/when-will-the-people-who-called-bitcoin-a-bubble-admit-they-were-wrong/}

Tuesday 5th Nov

Dirty Money: Will Singapore Clean Up Its Act?
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-singapore-banking-sector-is-a-tax-haven-that-now-faces-reform-a-930998.html}

The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
{http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/07/the-lost-world-of-the-london-coffeehouse/}

Oaktree Buys Cheap Chinese Stocks as U.S. Fairly Valued

{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/oaktree-s-marks-buys-cheap-chinese-stocks-as-u-s-fairly-valued.html}

Thursday 31st

British journalists lock each other up and throw away the key

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-cohen/2013/10/british-journalists-lock-each-other-up-and-throw-away-the-key/

Steve Coogan: David Mitchell, press freedom is not being threatened
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/27/leveson-press-regulation-steve-coogan-david-mitchell}

I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling
{http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-challenged-hackers-to-investigate-me-and-what-they-found-out-is-chilling/}

Wednesday 30th

The Chinese Are In Love With Bitcoin And It's Driving The Digital Currency's Prices Into The Stratosphere
{http://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-and-bitcoin-2013-10}

There's no need to apologise for the sorry state of Britain. But I'm sorry
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/27/apologise-sorry-state-britain-harvard-david-mitchell?CMP=twt_gu}

David Cameron threatens injunction against the Guardian to stop further Snowden leak publications
{http://boingboing.net/2013/10/29/david-cameron-threatens-injunc.html}

Tuesday 29th Oct

This Isn’t Capitalism — It’s Growthism, and It’s Bad for Us
{http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/this-isnt-capitalism-its-growthism-and-its-bad-for-us/
}
China Killed Your Dog. Are You Next?
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-24/china-killed-your-dog-are-you-next-.html}

No global recovery yet
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025932/no-global-recovery-yet/}

9 Shocking Photos Of The Devastation Wrought By The St. Jude Storm
{http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/9-shocking-photos-of-the-devastation-wrought-by-the-st-jude}

Art Director Javier Pérez Turns Everyday Objects into Whimsical Illustrations
{http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/instagram-experiments-javier-perez/}

Friday 25th

Political Maniac, say it how it is..
{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BHujm3cpY}

yawn..Spike in China money rates raises cash-crunch fears
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f93f8cb0-3c5e-11e3-b85f-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2ijDK5pfj}

18 signs you’re reading bad criticism of economics
{http://chrisauld.com/2013/10/23/18-signs-youre-reading-bad-criticism-of-economics/}

Looking forward to the weekend

Thursday the 24th

Chinese Shares Look Attractive
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/10/23/chinese-shares-look-attractive/?mod=WSJBlog}

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
{http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53279/27-actors-who-got-their-starts-miami-vice}

Wednesday 23rd

Charting lesson, 'Bearish engulfing candle' yes that's a Black closing Marubozu
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/10/22/clips-from-tonights-fast-money-29/}

Time Stops
{http://www.thestockbandit.com/time-stops/}

Tuesday

American Debt, Chinese Anxiety, Elaborated
{http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/10/american_debt_c.html}

Academic Studies Show QE Doesn’t Work
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/academic-studies-show-qe-doesnt-work/}

THE ULTIMATE CHEAT SHEET FOR REINVENTING YOURSELF{http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/10/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-for-reinventing-yourself/}

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Michael Price abut Investing
{http://25iq.com/2013/10/20/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-michael-price-abut-investing/}

Farmland bubble? 10-year rise raises red flags
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/farmland-bubble-10-year-rise-raises-red-flags-2013-10-21}

The shale-gas boom won’t do much for climate change. But it will make us a bit richer.
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/21/the-shale-gas-boom-wont-do-much-for-climate-change-but-it-will-make-us-a-bit-richer/}

Fake Banksys Easily Outsell Real Banksys
{http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/fake-banksys-outsell-real-banksys.html}

Scratch-built, thoroughly documented, working 1/4 scale V8 engine
{http://boingboing.net/2013/10/21/scratch-built-thoroughly-docu.html#more-263194} &
{http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/f31/1-4-scale-v8-first-project-13548/}

Monday

You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential
{http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/07/you-can-increase-your-intelligence-5-ways-to-maximize-your-cognitive-potential/}

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE BEFORE SEEING HYPERINFLATION? ONE EXPERT’S ANSWER MAY FRIGHTEN YOU
{http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/02/how-long-do-we-have-before-seeing-hyperinflation-one-experts-answer-may-frighten-you/}

The secrets of shopping
{http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/magazine/fall-2013/secrets-of-shopping}

Friday 18th Oct

Trust funds for social tenants? The true cost of central London council housing
{http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2013/10/trust-funds-for-social-tenants-the-true-cost-of-central-london-council-housing-2.html}

The Nobel committee is muddled on the nature of economics
' It is like awarding the physics prize jointly to Ptolemy for his theory that the Earth is the centre of the universe, and to Copernicus for showing it is not.'
{http://www.johnkay.com/2013/10/16/the-nobel-committee-is-muddled-on-the-nature-of-economics}

What does China want with Britain's nuclear industry?
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/17/china-britain-nuclear-industry}

European energy fact of the day
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/10/european-energy-fact-of-the-day.html}

Wednesday 16th

9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Money

{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/china-invented-every-form-of-money/}

The sun is setting on dollar supremacy, and with it, American power

{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/10378666/The-sun-is-setting-on-dollar-supremacy-and-with-it-American-power.html}

The yield on Greek bonds have hit a eurozone crisis low

{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea038a9e-358d-11e3-b539-00144feab7de.html#axzz2hsgW4u31}

Friday