Some reads to get your Friday morning started:
• A Marshall plan with ‘haircuts’ (Guardian) see also Greece to default as eurozone agrees €159bn bailout (Telegraph)
• Buttonwood: Swiss gold (Economist)
• Goldman Model Planted Seeds of Distress (Bloomberg) see also Wall Street Takes Aim At New Transparency Rule For Executive Pay (TPM)
• Democrats Balk at Possible Debt-Limit Deal as Deadline Looms (Businessweek)• Bank Foreclosure Deal Held Up Over Liability (Bloomberg) see also Are Unsellable Homes Holding Back Job Growth? (Economix)
• Real long term interest rates and recessions (The Bonddad Blog) see also Ailing U.S. Economy Seeks Jobs Doc (Bloomberg)
• Apple May Bid for Hulu Online Video Service (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Posts a 30% Increase in Profit, but Sales of Windows Are Weak (NYT)
• Google+ Pulls In 20 Million in 3 Weeks (WSJ) see also How to Hide From Annoying People on Google+ (NYT)
• Barack Obama: The Democrats’ Richard Nixon? (The Fiscal Times)
• Facing Bribery Inquiry, News Corp. Lawyers Up With Former Federal Prosecutors (Pro Publica)
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