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Happy holiday season MB readers. It’s lite posting for the next few weeks but, as usual, feel free to throw in your own links and comments if you have anything interesting to share.
Global/Macro
- Weird is Normal – Francis Coppola, Piera
- Getting qualitative with monetary policy – Alphaville
- What the Fed has been buying – Reserve of Atlanta , a nice chart displaying how loans create reserves. And the flip-side here
- How history should judge Ben Bernanke. – Wonkblog
- What tool(s) will the Fed use when rates are no longer at the zero bound? – Econbrowser
- Into the Bitcoin mines – Dealbook
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Australia & New Zealand
- Why Australian manufacturing is dying – GoldstockForex
- ACT Government loses second appeal in landmark stamp duty case – ABC
- Australian Venture Capital – Can We Escape From Past Failures? – Ian Maxwell
- Disability pension ‘under review’ – TheOz
- Has Australia run out of luck? – The AFR
Europe
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- Once Again, Irish Youth Are Leaving For A Better Life Overseas – NPR
- Irish Try to Eradicate Ghosts of a Housing Crash – NYT
- Britain, the EU and a parallel universe – BBC
Asia
- The PBOC’s rough playground – The Economist
- PBOC fails to calm jittery money markets – South China Morning Post
- Khodorkovsky gives press-conference in Berlin – The Voice of Russia
- Shinzo Abe agrees increased budget spending for Japan – FT
- Chinese Predictions for Cyberspace in 2014 – The Diplomat
- South Korean students wracked with stress – Aljazeera
- Early end-life plan for elderly in aging Japan – AP
- Coming Election Widens Rift in Thailand’s Political Crisis – NYT
- Warnings on hidden costs of Hong Kong’s credit card craze – South China Morning Post
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Americas
- Senate Votes Preliminary OK for Yellen to Lead Fed – Time
- Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion – Bloomberg
- The big steepener unwind – SoberLook
- Cuban president warns local entrepreneurs – Aljazeera
- Schedule for week ahead – Calculated Risk
Other/Interesting
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- A Solar Boom So Successful, It’s Been Halted – Scientific America. Hawaiian rentiers leading the way there, and some solar facts
- Outlook 2014: Russian growth model runs out of steam – business new europe
- Greame Swann retires from international and first class cricket – Guardian
- Chart of recent bank consolidations from Bloomberg – Twitter via SoberLook
- Feline-friendly cafe to offer different strokes for cat-lovin’ folks – The Age , surely this is “Peak Melbourne”
- Watch Out for the H10N8 Avian Flu – The Diplomat
- Government sends plane to step up monitoring of whaling fleets – ABC
- During Religious Season, Nonbelievers Assert Right to Celebrate – NYT
- Twin U.S. studies unlock mystery of how HIV causes AIDS – Reuters
- Chromecast in 2014: an open SDK, big international plans and maybe even new devices – GigaOM