Morning Reading 01/12/09
- ‘Lifestyle’ diseases saddle poor countries (FT)
- Weathering the American Contagion (FEER)
- Gold vs the S&P 500: 1802-2002 (Google Books)
- Institutional trading, stock returns, and earnings announcements (JFE)
- The crisis in Ireland (Debonation)
- The Taiwan/South Korea air pocket thing (Setser)
- Some Cautionary Observations from Marc Faber (NC)
- Capitalism freezes in winter's discontent from China to Nigeria (Bloomberg)
- Failed states index 2008 (FFP)
- Half of Madoff loss borne by foreigners (FT)
- From 2002 to 2006 housing created 600-800k jobs, or 10% of total U.S. job growth (WP)
- Possibly the worst-timed governmental release in recent U.S. history (WhiteHouse)
