Interesting Items 12/16

US Economic and Financial Issues:

Summers on Secular Stagnation

Krugman on Inequality

  

Share Buybacks - US Companies Buy Back Shares Instead of Boosting Investment

Crovitz on US Patent System

Global Politics:

Profile of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/shinzo-abe-japan-pm

The Most Interesting Politician in Latin America – Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica

Gurucharan Das - India - A Still Sleeping Giant
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579234490660743838