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December 3, 2008

Readings: Parking Meters, China, Oil, Media, etc.

Some quick links to items of interest:

• Chicago Scores $1.16B by leasing parking meters (Bond Buyer)
• The new media landscape, measured by traffic (Nick Denton)
• China Fears Restive Migrants As Jobs Disappear in Cities - (WSJ)
• UL Warns of Potentially Hazardous Holiday Decorative Outfits - (Marketwatch)
• Online Retail Stats: CyberMonday 2008 vs. 2007 (Rimm Kauffman)
• Musings on oil markets and increasing tanker transit speeds (InvestorVillage)
• Eye-opening photo series of Venice’s current record floods  (Boston.com)
• Interesting-looking new CleanTech conference (GigaOM)
• The trouble with being a public hedge fund (Breakingviews)
• Why the dash for retail deposits is no solution for banks (Breakingviews)
• Napa Valley 'Wine Shrine' in Chap. 11 (Bond Buyer)
• Struggling fund manager thinks Feds should buy more stocks. Gosh. (Bloomberg)

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