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)

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