Bitcoin under pressure
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590766-virtual-currency-it-mathematically-elegant-increasingly-popular-and-highly

29th November

How To Talk To Your Family About The Taper Over Thanksgiving

{http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-talk-to-your-parents-about-the-taper-over-thanksgiving-2013-11}

Want To Buy Gold @ $1,150 Today?

{http://theshortsideoflong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/want-to-buy-gold-1150-today.html}

Pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond resorts to melting own gold

{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25132104}

27th Nov

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF HOW MONEY MOVES AROUND THE BANKING SYSTEM
{http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/}

Want to get rich? Read fiction
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-get-rich-read-fiction-2013-11-22?pagenumber=1}

Über-warehouses for the ultra-rich
{http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21590353-ever-more-wealth-being-parked-fancy-storage-facilities-some-customers-they-are}

China-Japan rearmament is Keynesian stimulus, if it doesn't go horribly wrong
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026105/china-japan-rearmament-is-keynesian-stimulus-if-it-doesnt-go-horribly-wrong/}

All That Glitters, lots on gold..
{http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/11/gold-secretive-trading-business}

Security expert builds fully operational GUN from items that can all be purchased in the airport terminal AFTER you go through security
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513362/Man-builds-homemade-gun-items-purchased-airport-terminal-AFTER-security.html}


Fed Seeing Productivity Slowing as Breaking With Economic Trend
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues are suffering through their own form of cognitive dissonance

{http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-11-26/fed-seeing-productivity-slowing-as-breaking-with-economic-trend}

Tuesday 26th

A China Triangle: Bitcoin, Baidu And Beijing (a currency to avoid Iranian trade sanctions?)
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/11/24/a-china-triangle-bitcoin-baidu-and-beijing/}

China Developers Deny CCTV Report on Unpaid Land Taxes
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-25/china-developers-owe-3-8-trillion-yuan-in-land-taxes-cctv-says.html}

Information asymmetry, crypto currency edition, FT Alphaville decided to take the plunge this weekend and buy some dreaded Bitcoins
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/25/1702992/information-asymmetry-crypto-currency-edition/}

In Bitcoin’s Orbit: Rival Virtual Currencies Vie for Acceptance
{http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/in-bitcoins-orbit-rival-virtual-currencies-vie-for-acceptance/}

Monday

When are markets “rational”?
{http://blog.mpettis.com/2013/11/when-are-markets-rational/}

'The Renminbi Is Failing the Chinese People'
{http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/the_renminbi_is_failing_the_Chinese_people}

Shadow Banking: What It Is, How it Broke, and How to Fix It
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/07/shadow-banking-what-it-is-how-it-broke-and-how-to-fix-it/21038/}

SantaCon is more naughty than nice NYPD says, warning bar owners about onslaught
{http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/santacon-naughty-nice-nypd-article-1.1524774#ixzz2lPn2olZE}

What makes men laugh?
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10452042/What-makes-men-laugh.html}

Bitcoin Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Moneyhttp://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/bitcoin-survival-guide/

Friday, 22nd Nov

Claims about France
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/claims-about-france.html}

Why assassins don’t prefer Bitcoin
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/22/1700922/guest-post-why-assassins-dont-prefer-bitcoin/}

Mario Draghi hits at ‘nationalistic’ attacks of ECB rate cut
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1891c476-52b6-11e3-8586-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2lMv0OThm}

The World's Most Powerful Computer Network Is Being Wasted on Bitcoin
{http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-powerful-computer-network-is-being-was-504503726}



Everything I asked about Bitcoin
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/11/everything-i-was-afraid-to-ask-about-bitcoin-but-did/}

21st November

Near Zero: ECB Interest Rate Cuts Hit Savings Hard
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/germans-worried-as-low-ecb-interest-rates-hit-savings-a-934240.html}

China, and the soaring price of Bitcoin
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/china-and-the-soaring-price-of-bitcoin.html}


watch the world's currencies flow into BTC in realtime
{http://fiatleak.com/}

Mapping Bitcoin
{http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/mapping-bitcoin/?_r=1}

Bitcoin Price and Chart
{http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/widget/chart/}

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}