Nieuws uit Nederlandse media:
- Fed gaat rentebeleid voorspellen (RTL-Z)
- Maatstaf fondsen niet erkend door DNB (FD)
- ML: "Goudmijnen!" (IEX)
- Homohater en scheppings-gelovige wint in Iowa (Welingelichte Kringen)
Roerend met Tissen oneens. Wellicht dat hij - l'art pour l'art - de geesten wilde prikkelen en wel heel erg 'out of the box' schrijft: 30% van uw vermogen inleveren om de staatsschuld in te leveren..
- Tissen: Vrijwillige bijdrage om schuldproblemen staat op te lossen (RTL-Z)
Geopolitiek:
- USS GERALD R. FORD: A Close Look At The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware Ever (Business Insider)
- Hu Tells Magazine West Is Trying to Divide China by Using Cultural Weapons (Bloomberg)
- Disturbing video that shows U.S. soldiers 'blowing up a dog in Iraq for fun' (Daily Mail)
Kaarten..
- The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See (Slate)
- Penis sizes worldwide: Yeah, there's a map for that (Global Post)
Nieuws uit buitenlandse media:
- The Decline in Bankruptcy Filings by Chapter (Credit Slips)
- 13 Of The Most Frequent Phobias Bankers Suffer From (Here is the City)
- The collateral crunch gets monetary (FT Alphaville)
- Must read: ECB's LTRO Won't Stop Collateral Contagion! (Gordon T. Long)
- German Central Bank Official - 'Britain Must Be Aware of its Importance in the EU' (Spiegel)
- Eurozone: Why does the crisis linger, deepen and spread? (Wall Street Pit)
- Would A Ponzi By Any Other Name Smell As Bad? (Peter Tchir; Zero Hedge)
- A tale of three countries: recovery after banking crises (Bruegel)
- Hungarians Protest Controversial New Constitution (Spiegel)
- The Coca-Cola kingdom - Does Coca Cola control 40% of Swaziland GDP? (Foreign Policy)
- Fed to Publish a Forecast of Rate Moves, Guiding Investors (New York Times)
- JPMorgan Chase Sued For $95 Million Over Allegedly Misrepresenting Mortgage Loans (Huffington Post)
Must read. Zeer scherpe observatie die ik volkomen deel. De ergste zonde voor media:
"As every media critic learns, the worst sin of our press is not its blatant biases, or crimes of commission, but rather the pervasive patterns of omission; what's left out!"
- The year's top story is not getting coverage (Al Jazeera)
In die categorie die stellingname van Charles Hugh Smith over de "onverkiezbaarheid" van Ron Paul die met 21% van de stemmen derde werd in Iowa na Romney en Santorum die elk 25% van de stemmen kregen.
- The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul "Unelectable" (Of two minds)
- Romney defeats Santorum by 8 votes in Iowa (CNN)
Tot slot.
Shot in the head by police, former U.S. Marine will continue to protest:
