Weekend Reading

Rise and Fall of Apple (Stock)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/technology/after-apples-rise-a-bruising-fall.html

The Monetary Demand for Gold
 One Man’s Currency Is Another Man’s Bet

Rethinking Welfare State Sustainability – The Case of Denmark

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/europe/danes-rethink-a-welfare-state-ample-to-a-fault.html

The Underemployment Problem

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/business/part-time-work-becomes-full-time-wait-for-better-job.html

Schwarzman Scholars Program – A Chinese Rhodes Scholarship?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/asia/us-financier-backs-china-scholarship-program.html

Interesting Commentary on Debt and Globalization

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/instead-of-the-state-globalisation-has-withered-20130415-2hwap.html

China – Accuracy of Economic Data

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2013/el2013-08.pdf

Book Review – “Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries” by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21576372-how-get-india-moving-again-capitalist-manifesto

P Chidambaram – India’s Finance Minister – at Petersen Institute

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A Sharp Critique of Excess Credit Fuelled Business Cycles

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/is-the-federal-reserve-insane-.html

Greenspan on the Significance of Equity Markets