Global:
- IMF demands Cyprus debt haircut as precondition for aid Spiegel online
- Counterparties 2012: The year of bank fraud Felix Salmon
North America:
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- US Q3 GDP revised to +3.1% Reuters
- Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ gets push-back WSJ
- Fed’s $4 Trillion rescue helps hedge funds as savers hurt Bloomberg
- Weekly initial unemployment claims 361,000 CalculatedRisk
- Shiller: Housing hasn’t necessarily bottomed yet PragCap
Europe:
- Dutch unemployment reaches 7% in November Expatica
- Italian president indicates February 24 election date Yahoo!
- Greece faces ‘make or break’ year FT
- Rajoy drives Spanish revolution with low-cost manufacture Bloomberg
- Italian senate set for budget vote before Monti resigns Bloomberg or will he? Reuters
Asia:
- Video-investing in Chinese property BeyondBrics
- Beijing criticises US ‘political checks’ FT
- BOJ loosens with pledge to review inflation objectives Bloomberg
- Bowing to Abe, BOJ to review price goal WSJ
Local:
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- Whitehaven sale could tax Tinkler heavily AFR
- RBA admits to ‘string pushing’ AFR , alright I admit it, I re-wrote that title because mine was better.
- Chinese military power ‘shifting pacific balance’, says defence white paper The Oz
- Abbot accuses ABC of bias AFR
Deficit porn:
- No surplus – it’s the dumped pledge ABC
- No surplus – it’s the election AFR
- No surplus – it’s the promise The Oz
- No surplus – it’s the states too AFR
- No surplus – it’s credibility AFR
- No surplus – it’s defeat SMH
- No surplus – it’s markets who couldn’t care less AFR
- No surplus – it’s a big un-fillable hole SMH
- No surplus – it’s the right call SMH
- No surplus – it was the only thing to do Bartho
- No surplus – it’s the Constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and, uh … No, that’s it. It’s the vibe
Other:
- Russia: capital flight may not be as bad as it looks BeyondBrics
- Another pillar of mass media collapses SumZero