My afternoon cruise reading:
• My Investing Checklist (Above The Market)
• European Banks Bolster Capital With Shunned Bonds (Bloomberg) but see Searching for Calm in Bond Markets (NYT)
• Consumers Unlikely to Rekindle the Recovery (WSJ)
• 6 Ways the Big Banks Are Getting Back-Door Bailouts and Making Big Money From Taxpayers (AlterNet)
• A Mortgage Rate Beginning With a 3 (NYT)
• Chief Justice Roberts comes into his own and saves the Court while preventing a constitutional debacle (Scotus Blog) see also John Roberts’s art of war (Economist)
• Texas GOP’s 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching Of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’ (TPM)
• Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost (CNet)
• Time To Apply The First Law Of Robotics To Our Smartphones (Forbes)
• With Total Viewers Sliding To 7 Year Lows, Is CNBC Fading Into Obscurity? (ZeroHedge)
What are you reading, landlubber?
Prices of Raw Goods Plunge on Slowdown
Source: WSJ
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