Readings 01/23/09
- Geithner warning on Yuan may renew U.S.-China tension (Bloomberg)
- “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money” (The Atlantic)
- Roubini and Albert Edwards think China is going to take S&P 500 much lower (Bloomberg)
- Pfizer in Talks to Buy Wyeth in $60b deal (WSJ)
- TSMC exec thinks global semi industry will shrink by a third this year (FT)
- Fab-tool, material markets plummet (EETimes)
- Harvard sale of private equity stymied by low market prices (Bloomberg)
- In Ironic Twist, U.S. Taxpayers Are Approaching Net Debt-Free Status (Zero Hedge)
- A look back at the economy, in presidential terms (St. Louis Fed)
- India's street vendors sales down 50 percent (FT)
- Britain reluctant to join crackdown on tax havens (SGuardian)
- Paying bonuses while Merrill Lynch burned (FT)
- At the tipping point: Inflation vs deflation (PHN)
- Interview With Michael Lewis (Atlantic Business)
- 'Boom and bust' theories are no guide to today's economic turbulence (Guardian/Skidelsky)
- The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Amazon)
- Sentence of the Day: Richard Simmons trumps open-heart surgery (Marginal Revolution)
- How to Bury Gold and Beat Metal Detectors (Bogleheads)
- Banks Die Too Fast for the Regulators (WSJ)
- Japan looks set for another possible lost decade (Bloomberg)
- Heavy-tailed distributions in fatal traffic accidents: role of human activities (arXiv)