Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet:

• Reliability of oil supply/demand forecasts challenged (O&G Journal)
• Securitization isn't going away, even if credit crisis has been a surprise in its severity (IDD)
• Denmark leads the list of the world's happiest countries (BusinessWeek)
• Here is hoping Nouriel Roubini is proven wrong (Bloomberg.com)
• UK banks face double property crash (Reuters)
• Tudor Jones' new quant fund turning in standout numbers (New York Post)
• Goldman says half the world's economy already in recession (Telegraph)
• Fascinating profile of bagless vacuum inventor James Dyson (Telegraph)

Cute quote from a French banker after the crisis of 1907 that I just ran across:

The U.S. is a great financial nuisance.

Coming after nasty U.S.-led financial crises in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893 and 1907, this was an understandable and widely-held view. But after going a big chunk of this century without such crises (arguably from 1941 to 1971), the U.S. is seemingly back to its old tricks: We have had U.S.-sparked banking/financial crises in 1988, 1998, 2000, and 2007/8. How long until someone says the same thing about the U.S. as financial nuisance today?