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Elephant rescued from ditch BBC
Altruism repays the best-connected individuals physics arXiv
On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired Wall Street Journal
Susan Boyle loses Britain’s Got Talent crown to Diversity dancers Times Online. Remember, Jennifer Hudson was a talent show loser too.
Drive-by Economics: The Meta Edition Paul Kedrosky
Guest Blog: Japan’s first trade deficit in 28 years Eiji Fujii, Econbrowser
Harvard datapoint of the day Felix Salmon. Wow, is Harvard going to have a fiscal crisis, in an upmarket version of what hit New York City in the 1970s?
Geithner Wields Little Leverage In China Talks Huffington Post
The CBMS market about to implode Economic Populist
Green Shoots in Escapism Michael Panzner
What Was THAT? (Friday Market Close) Karl Denninger
Troubled Bank Loans Hit a Record High Floyd Norris, New York Times
Harvard Business Students Take Dumb “Ethics” Pledge Clusterstock. The really stupid thing is when some HBS names were prominent in scandals in the 1980s, the school did a study and concluded ethics couldn’t be taught, you had them or not by the time you got to business school. So is a silly ritual pledge going to make an iota of difference?
The browning of America Willem Buiter
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