Links 7th January

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Here’s a list of things Reynard read over the weekend.

Global:

  • US activity picks up, hopes for euro zone rise Reuters
  • Eygpt’s Mursi to meet IMF aide on $4.8bn loan request Reuters
  • What’s inside America’s banks The Atlantic

North America:

  • Re-branding the “trillion-dollar coin” Interfluiduty
  • Default ceiling: Bluffing into the nuts Calculated Risk
  • US approves billions in Superstorm sandy aid Al Jazeera
  • White house weighs new ‘grand bargain’ on taxes,spending Washington Post
  • America’s post-2014 Afganistan game plan The Diplomat
  • Fed Holds up $10 billion mortgage pact with banks, OCC WSJ
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Asia:
  • Giant Tuna sells for record $1.8mil in Japan France24
  • Journalists in China make rare stand against censors after changes to New Year editorial Washington Post
  • China ‘biggest’ nuclear plant construction resumes France24
  • China chills hit 28-year low, trapping ships in ice Reuters
  • China ex-housing official probed for corruption, Xinhua reports Bloomberg
  • India’s African “Safari” The Diplomat
  • Zinc hungry China asks Canada to back giant mine France24
  • North Korea’s new master plan Testosterone Pit
  • India takes aim at poverty with cash transfer program NYT
Europe:
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  • Europe’s crisis of values George Soros
  • Spain taps pension fund in borrowing spree WSJ
  • Switzerland and Britain are now at currency war Ambrose
  • Why the Irish deserve a helping hand to leave their bailout programme The Economist
  • Francoise Hollande remains intent on introducing punishing top income-tax The Economist
  • Air France in advanced talks to buy Alitalia Reuters
  • German Foreign Minister: Greece didn’t get a blank check and neither will Cyprus eFXNews
  • The Europe speech Cameron should give FT
  • Portugal does not need debt restructuring: IMF’s Lagarde Reuters
  • Triple-dip recession rises as UK service sector shrinks Telegraph UK
Local:
  • Growth expected to continue, but at a sedate pace BusinessDay
  • What the population boom means for housing TheOz
  • ‘Let it be’ as China takes stake in SA power grid AFR
  • Local carmakers on the skids AFR
  • Dividends an insight into Rinehart empire BusinessDay
  • Labor spins research to record high TheOZ

Other:

  • Bigger brains come at a cost Scientific America
  • Footage of massive solar flare WSJ
  • Can computers be funny ? NYT
  • 27 science fictions that became science facts in 2012 BuzzFeed
  • Microsoft says Google trying to undermine Windows Phone The Register , burglars suggest otherwise BI
  • Cerebral circuitry FT
  • Extra pounds mean lower chance of death WSJ