Friday the 7th of September

China optimism served on a plate
{http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-02/don-t-bet-on-the-end-of-china-s-growth-miracle}

ECB Head Draghi Backs Up Pledge to Save Euro
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/ecb-president-draghi-announces-unlimited-bond-buying-program-a-854374.html}

A guide to ordering tacos
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/a-guide-to-ordering-tacos/2012/09/06/26b9cb18-eca8-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_story.html}

Thursday 6th September

The gold standard and economic growth
{http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/09/the_gold_standa_1.html}

Mario Draghi to unveil ECB plan to save the euro
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/06/eurozone-crisis-mario-draghi-ecb-euro}

How high-frequency journalism is like high-frequency trading
{http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/187525/how-high-frequency-journalism-is-like-high-frequency-trading/}

Is That All There Is? The Remarkably Small Costs of Quantitative Easing
{http://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime/?p=3094}

Quality of life in China
{http://understandingsociety.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/quality-of-life-in-china.html}

Quite amazing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19493510

Wednesday 5th of September

US Candidates Unabashed in Stretching the Truth (Spiegel.de)
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-campaign-of-lies-us-candidates-unabashed-in-truth-stretching-a-853925.html}

Teenage angst
The implications of China’s slowdown (The Economist)
{http://www.economist.com/node/21560890}

How bad is China’s cash crunch? (FT)
{http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/08/31/how-bad-is-chinas-cash-crunch/#axzz25ZdY1Ghy}

Fool’s gold standard (Marketwatch WSJ)
Commentary: Can the gold standard bring back balance to trade?
{http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=19F56BEC-F385-11E1-9007-002128049AD6}

Tuesday 4th September

China’s Growing Economic Crisis
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-30/don-t-look-to-china-for-economic-growth.html}

Eastwooding
{http://gawker.com/5939531/obama-joins-in-as-internet-skewers-clint-eastwoods-surreal-rnc-speech}


Naomi Wolf: Sweden’s Other Rape Suspects
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/story/naomi-wolf-sweden%E2%80%99s-other-rape-suspects-20120903}

Britain’s Paul Ryan
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/britains-paul-ryan/}


We can't grow ourselves out of debt, no matter what the Federal Reserve does
Let's replace our fixation on growth with a steady-state economy focusing on lower consumption, leisure and ecological health
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/03/debt-federal-reserve-fixation-on-growth}

Democracies and debt
Voters are now facing a harsh truth
{http://www.economist.com/node/21561932}

Why Dictatorships Build Stuff that Crumbles
{http://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/why-dictatorships-build-stuff-that-crumbles/}


Which Country Has the Best Government?
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/good-governance-series-which-goverment-is-best-a-845170.html}

Friday Aug 31

Fear-of-China Syndrome  PAUL KRUGMAN
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/fear-of-china-syndrome/}

[China myths] The rapid march towards urbanisation
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/08/30/1127791/the-rapid-march-towards-urbanisation/}

World food prices jumped 10 percent in July: World Bank
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/30/us-worldbank-food-prices-idUSBRE87T18P20120830}

Get the Popcorn Ready for 9/17 – Occupy’s Next ‘Day of Chaos’
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/08/29/get-the-popcorn-ready-for-917-occupys-next-day-of-chaos/}

Bubbles and buildings: time to be afraid
{http://blogs.ft.com/ft-long-short/2012/08/30/bubbles-and-buildings-time-to-be-afraid/#axzz252W5vYAT}

Romney Running Mate Ryan
More Dangerous than Sarah Palin
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/paul-ryan-represents-the-conservative-wing-of-a-conservative-party-a-853015.html}

Thursday 30th August

Money is always and everywhere a hot potato
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/08/money-is-always-and-everywhere-a-hot-potato.html#more}

China is Okay
{http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-is-okay-by-stephen-s--roach}

China in Revolt. The Chinese working class plays a Janus-like role in the political imaginary of neoliberalism
{http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/china-in-revolt/}

The Hottest Meme In The Global Economy: Everyone Is Slamming Australia
{http://www.businessinsider.com/australian-economic-slowdown-2012-8}

Russia’s Corrupt Crackdown on Corruption
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/russia-s-corrupt-crackdown-on-corruption.html}

Wednesday 29th

Alexander Stille: The Heirs of Inequality
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/story/alexander-stille-the-heirs-inequality-20120829}

China’s bad-debt nightmare
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/08/28/1134361/chinas-bad-debt-nightmare/}

World War II Bomb Detonated in Heart of Munich
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bomb-from-world-war-ii-detonated-in-munich-a-852669.html}

Tuesday 28th August

What’s driving gold higher of late?
{http://soberlook.com/2012/08/big-inflows-into-gold-etps-generates.html}

QE3: Shut up, you have no idea.
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/08/27/qe3-shut-up-you-have-no-idea/}

The Sharapova Effect
{http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/27/the-sharapova-effect/}

REVEALED: Here Are The Odds That You'll Win A Toy Playing The "Claw" Arcade Game
{http://www.businessinsider.com/revealed-here-are-the-odds-that-youll-win-a-toy-playing-the-claw-arcade-game-2012-8}

Monday 27th. Back.

China launches 'triangle debt' probe
{http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-08/25/content_15705327.htm}

What China Could Be Building
{http://marginalrevolution.com/}

What's the price of corn in your meat? Less than you think.
{http://greedgreengrains.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/whats-price-of-corn-in-your-meat-less.html}

'Global Warming Has a Fairly Simple and Cheap Technical Solution'
{http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/08/global-warming-has-a-fairly-simple-and-cheap-technical-solution.html}

Derviş & Solana: Europe’s 4% Solution
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/story/dervi%C5%9F-solana-europe%E2%80%99s-4-solution-20120827}

What Caused the Crisis?
{http://alephblog.com/2012/08/22/what-caused-the-crisis/?}

Sell US, buy China
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-sp-is-at-new-highs-shanghai-is-at-new-lows--jeff-gundlach-explains-whats-going-on-2012-8}

Merkel Vows to Help Greeks Stay in Euro Zone
{http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/business/global/german-chancellor-pledges-support-for-greece.html}

Ron Paul Just Made The Last Speech Of His Political Career
{http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-rally-republican-national-convention-2012-8}

Apple decisively wins Samsung trial: what it means
{http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/3266571/apple-decisively-wins-samsung-trial-what-it-means}

Monday the 20th

**More from the Web**

What US Candidates Need to Know About China
{http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/what-us-candidates-need-to-know-about-china/#comments}

Who gained the most from the euro?
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/sentences-to-inflame.html}

Where did all the volume go? The decline of “real money” trading
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/08/17/1123821/the-decline-of-real-money-trading/}

The Panic Over Fukushima
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444772404577589270444059332.html}

Why Is the Price of Gold Falling?
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-is-the-price-of-gold-falling/261273/}

Eat squirrel
{http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/why-eating-squirrels-makes-sense/Content?oid=7215952&showFullText=true}

16 AUG

NASSIM TALEB WARNS: Stay Out Of The Investment Industry
{http://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-taleb-investment-industry-2012-8}

Has the Chinese economy averted a hard landing already?
{http://emergingmoney.com/china/chinese-economy-growth-fxi-hao-spy/}

Zero Solution to plugging US debt
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/08/15/zero-solutions/}

China H2 Trade Outlook Severe, Inward Investment Slows
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/48684394}

China's Thirst For Coal Could Soon Land It In A Water Shortage
{http://www.businessinsider.com/greenpeace-report-on-chinese-coal-production-2012-8}

Here's the Robot that Foxconn Will Use to Build Their Million-strong "Robot Kingdom" {http://climateerinvest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/heres-robot-that-foxconn-will-use-to.html}

Spanish mayor robs supermarkets
{http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0815/breaking14.html?via=mr}

The Health of the Oceans in a Single Number {http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/08/the-health-of-the-oceans-in-a-si.html}

Lifeboats kill more people than they save
{http://www.microkhan.com/2012/08/15/deathboats/}

Wednesday 15th August

Beijing Firm That Guarantees 3 Billion Yuan Worth Of Loans Is On The Verge Of Collapse
{http://www.businessinsider.com/zhongdan-bankruptcy-raises-risk-of-chinese-financial-crisis-2012-8}

Drinking at work
The boredom of boozeless business
{http://www.economist.com/node/21560265?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_boredom_of_boozeless_business}

World shipping crisis threatens German dominance as Greeks win long game. The irony of prudent Greeks cleaning up after a reckless debt spree by the Germans is lost on nobody.
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/9473476/World-shipping-crisis-threatens-German-dominance-as-Greeks-win-long-game.html}


China's ghost towns and phantom malls
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19049254}
& The Miss World 2012 Competition Is Being Held In China's Most Famous Ghost City {http://www.businessinsider.com/ordos-photo-miss-world-2012-2012-8}

14th August

London's Lesson for Romney and Ryan: Government Works - New Yorker
{http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/08/the-real-lesson-of-the-olympics-government-can-work.html}

Forget Paul Ryan's Budget: His Scariest Idea Is About the Federal Reserve
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/forget-paul-ryans-budget-his-scariest-idea-is-about-the-federal-reserve/261066/}

The Vixen Index; additional signs that the economy is not in the greatest position
{http://www.investmentpostcards.com/2012/08/09/laugh-out-loud-the-vixen-index/#ixzz23InO1HsQ}

Shutting down China's IPO machine and other government actions to stem declines
{http://soberlook.com/2012/08/shutting-down-chinas-ipo-machine-and.html}

Mashable Weekend Recap: 73 Stories You Might Have Missed
{http://mashable.com/2012/08/13/mashable-weekend-recap-73-stories-you-might-have-missed/}

Historical Echoes: Zola’s L’Argent: A Portrait of a Corrupt Financial World, in 1891 {http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2012/08/historical-echoes-zolas-largent-a-portrait-of-a-corrupt-financial-world.html}

Investors Prepare for Euro Collapse {http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/investors-preparing-for-collapse-of-the-euro-a-849747.html}

Paying Yourself First
{http://www.roguetraderette.com/2012/08/12/paying-yourself-first-in-life/}

13th August

Fears of global economic slowdown weigh on emerging markets
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics-blog/2012/aug/12/fears-global-economic-slowdown-markets}

Outlook for eurozone strugglers darkens
{http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/11/57608}

How long can Japanese bond prices defy gravity?
{http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/08/how_long_can_ja.html}

Germany Considers Holding EU Referendum
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/germany-considers-holding-eu-referendum-a-849441.html}

Friday the 10th

With Rates Low, Banks Increase Mortgage Profit
{http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/with-rate-twist-banks-increase-mortgage-profit/?smid=tw-share}

19 incredible Apple secrets revealed in court
{http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2012/08/09/apple-trial.fortune/index.html}

"The Beijing Conference": See How China Quietly Took Over Africa
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/beijing-conference-see-how-china-quietly-took-over-africa}

UPDATE 2-Potential grows for food crisis as prices surge-UN
{http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/09/food-fao-idINL6E8J951T20120809}

Thursday's the Day to Go All the Way for Civic Duty in Singapor
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567052477900124.html?mod=WSJ_Ahed_LEADTop}

Thursday 9th August

The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/27/ruins-of-empire-pankaj-mishra}

BoP until you drop
For the first time since 1998 more money leaves China than enters it
{http://www.economist.com/node/21559949}

Bonds for $105 Million to Cost School Over $1 Billion
{http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-06/payments-on-105-million-school-bond-will-top-1-billion}

THE TOP TEN TRADING MOVIES……YEAH, DON’T THINK SO!
{http://bclund.com/2012/08/07/the-top-ten-trading-movies/}

Wednesday 8th

Rice Hoard Offers World Respite As Food Costs Surge: Commodities
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/rice-hoard-offers-world-respite-as-food-costs-surge-commodities.html}

Gross to Investors: Stay Away From Europe
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/48541875/Gross_to_Investors_Stay_Away_From_Europe}

Negative interest rates spell final defeat for beleaguered savers
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9456634/Negative-interest-rates-spell-final-defeat-for-beleaguered-savers.html}

Knight Capital: The Ideal Way To Screw Up On Wall Street
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/08/06/knight-capital-the-ideal-way-to-screw-up-on-wall-street/}

Monday 6th August

Indonesian market reflects a growing economy
With GDP of $1.1 trillion, Indonesia is the 15th-largest economy in the world. This growth is tracked by the Jakarta Composite Index, the benchmark equity index for the Indonesian market.
{http://emergingmoney.com/stocks/indonesian-market-tlk-iit-eido-idx-idxj/}

China slams US over South China Sea criticism
Senior US diplomat told US criticism of new military base in South China Sea was not conducive to regional peace.
{http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/20128555939327304.html}

Iran's leadership is now openly admitting that the nation is facing an economic crisis. Of course the cause according to them is a "temporary" form of economic "soft war" waged by the US.
{http://soberlook.com/2012/08/irans-economic-crisis-escalates.html}

Money for nothing
Companies are taking advantage of cheap borrowing
{http://www.economist.com/node/21559966}

Pussy Riot: will Vladimir Putin regret taking on Russia's cool women punks?
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/29/pussy-riot-protest-vladimir-putin-russia?}

5 WAYS YOU CAN COMBAT HIGH FREQUENCY AND ALGORITHMIC TRADING
{http://bclund.com/2012/08/02/5-ways-to-combat-high-frequency-and-algorithmic-trading/}

Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
{http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/30/157606305/four-signs-your-awesome-investment-may-actually-be-a-ponzi-scheme}

Secret Beach

A good walk down from Hartland Quay, but think would be great in a good swell.

+50° 59' 11.44", -4° 31' 45.74" (50.986511, -4.529373)

Robert Shiller: Bubbles Without Markets Have Been Much More Devastating
{http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-shiller-bubbles-without-financial-markets-2012-7}

The Republicans In The House Just Bought Into Ron Paul's Money Conspiracy Theory
{http://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-houseron-pauls-money-conspiracy-theory-2012-7}

‘Shocking’ Dip in Britain’s Output Reflects European Stress
PARIS — The economies of Europe continue to weaken, with Britain reporting on Wednesday that its second recession in three years had deepened and several other reports showing business conditions were deteriorating in Germany.
{http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/business/global/signs-of-deepening-downturn-multiply-in-europe.html?_r=1}

Coal Price, ore's not well
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2012/07/ores-not-well/}

Can a real central bank save Europe?
{http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2012/07/19/can-a-real-central-bank-save-europe/}

The euro has to be about to die in order for them to actually save it.
A Rapid Fall in the Euro is Needed to Save the Eurozone
{http://www.robertsinn.com/2012/07/25/a-rapid-fall-in-the-euro-is-needed-to-save-the-eurozone/}