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The top of our reading list is a discussion by Simon Johnson asserting that the best person to chair the SEC is prosecutor Neil Barofsky ...... and the last is an acerbic discussion of Japan's aging demographic.

Follow up:

• Mary Miller vs. Neil Barofsky For The S.E.C. (Simon Johnson, The Baseline Scenario)

• The Tax Canard (Roger Conrad, Investing Daily)

• Fighting Fiscal Phantoms (Paul Krugman, The New York Times)

• Our Enemy, The Payroll Tax (Ross Douthat, The New York Times)

• Everything You Know About Investing is Wrong (Barry Ritholtz, Economonitor) From The Big Picture.
  

• Who Killed the Twinkie (David Weidner, MarketWatch)

• Mellon vs. Geithner (Douglas French, The Daily Reckoning, 26 November 2012)

• The Association of German Public Banks (Bundesverband Öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands, VÖB)  Hat tip to Public Banking Institute.

• Japan's Population Now So Old That Sales Of Adult Diapers Exceed Those For Babies (Washington's Blog)