10 Friday AM Reads

December 14, 2012 10:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reads:

• The Best 10 Economics Papers of 2012 (Andres Marroquin)
• A Fed Focused on the Value of Clarity (NYT) see also The Fed’s New, Squishy Inflation Target (Iacono Research)
• The Great Migration of the 21st Century (Rick Bookstaber)
• The mandate is willing but the tools are weak (The Economist) see also Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve Is Boring Again (The Daily Beast)
• The Future Of Mobile (Business Insider)
• Home Seizures Rise as Banks Adjust to Foreclosure Flow (Bloomberg) see also For-Sale Signs Sprout in Heartland (WSJ)
• High-Tech Factories Built to Be Engines of Innovation (NYT)
• Revenue Rises, Deficit Falls: Fiscal Cliff Gets Credit (NYT) see also As Fiscal Cliff Nears, Democrats Have Public Opinion on Their Side (Pew Research Center)
• 110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years (Popular Mechanics)
• When government does things better than private enterprise (LA Times)

What are you doing this weekend?

Big Bank Money-laundering Settlements

Source: The Economist

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