Afternoon Reading 01/08/09

• Banks offer 30-yr mortgages below 5% (Bloomberg)
• Social Security isn’t a ponzi scheme — maybe (Beat the Press)
• The Cost of Fearing Strangers (Freakonomics)
• Whew, Goldman’s "sudoku model" says Treasury bond market not a bubble (Bloomberg)
• Citigroup sued over "malicious" research note (Bloomberg)
• Citigroup has a full oil tanker offshore in northern Scotland, as do others (Bloomberg)
• Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected (Space.com)
• Domestic uprising underway in U.S. — at Chuck E. Cheese (PennLive)
• What Are the Chances of a Depression? Higher than you think (538)
• Calculate how long it takes to recover from various financial losses (NYT)

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