Econintersect: Click Read more >> below graphic to see today’s list.
The top of today’s reading list is about the Social Security Trust Fund and S.S. solvency…….. and the last article presents five economic trends to be thankful for.
- The Social Security Trust Fund surplus was never going to be locked untouched in a vault (New Deal Democrat, Bonddad Blog) See also the update: Keeping the Social Security Trust Fund solvent forever is even easier than I thought
- Coal Seen as New Tobacco Sparking Investor Backlash: Commodities (Jesse Riseborough and Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg)
- Paul Ryan Should Get Behind This Plan To Give Everyone Free Money (Canny Vinik, Business Insider)
- Everything I was afraid to ask about Bitcoin but did (Rumplestatskin, Macro Business)
- Vanguard: Boomer Retiree Wave Won’t Crash Market (Gil Weinreich, ThinkAdvisor)
- Tax-Loss Harvesting: How to Avoid a Wash Sale (Donald Jay Korn, Financial Planning)
- House Prices and the One Armed Policymaker’s Dilemma (John Cassidy, The New Yorker)
- Silent assassins chase German savers (Oliver Marc Hartwich, Business Spectator) Negative real interest rates are a genuine savings killer.
- Q4:2013 US GDP Nowcast: +1.9% (James Picerno, EconoMonitor) James Picerno has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- Five economic trends to be thankful for (Neil Irwin, The Washington Post) Bill McBride at Calulated Risk puts some of them to music -errr graphs and number five (falling household debt) is below:
Click on graph for larger image at Calculated Risk.
