Best links of the web: 12-10-03, nr 630

Date: Author: Category: Best of the Web, Daily Economics

Good morning. Now I finally know why I get this urge to put Harry Potter to trial???.

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?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-02/currency-debasement-social-collapse-4-case-studies

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Seasonality in Fed policy? The Fed appears to be more willing to act in the first month of the quarter???

http://libertystreeteconomics.typepad.com/.a/6a01348793456c970c0176173eb618970c-450wi

?????????????????? http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2012/10/is-us-monetary-policy-seasonal.html

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???EU draft urges contracts for euro states??? according to the FT

?????????????????? http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e1455dc4-0cb2-11e2-b175-00144feabdc0.html

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Very nice chart showing that the rally in High Yield has benefited almost all of the High Yield mutual funds, more so than in 2010

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?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-02/why-high-yield-market-wont-see-performance-chasing-rally

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Martin Wolf on the Robert Gordon study of unlimited productivity growth???

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?????????????????? http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/78e883fa-0bef-11e2-8032-00144feabdc0.html

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???but who needs growth anyway? Soo overrated???

?????????????????? http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1134249.ece

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An interesting study by the BIS quantifying the impact of BoJ interventions on US bond yields (amongst others). 1 billion USD in interventions had 1 basis point impact

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?????????????????? http://www.bis.org/publ/work389.pdf

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I would never have guessed that Brent has been the worst performing asset in September.

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?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-02/best-and-worst-performers-q3-and-september

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Another sign that the crisis is far from over: young adults living with parents in the US

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?????????????????? http://www.businessinsider.com/rosenberg-student-loan-bubble-housing-2012-10

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???but still, car sales were the strongest since 2008

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?????????????????? http://www.businessinsider.com/september-car-sales-strong-2012-10

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And, to top it off, a nice IMF working paper on the German economy

?????????????????? http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12239.pdf

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2 thoughts on “Best links of the web: 12-10-03, nr 630”

  1. Goodmorning Lukas Daalder,nice page today, especially the witchcraft shot. nowadays we expect that the witches are the ecb and the fed people.selling cars are the sweet for the people, the don’t sell them but lend them with years of free use (lend by the automakers themselves).growth is lucally going to an end, i call it for more then 25 years, why always growth, now we know the effect, you can lend free lunches for bankers.have a nice day,Cees

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