What We Read Today 30 November 2012

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The top of our reading list is a discussion by Bill Shireman of “The Next Economy” …… and the last is an explanation of how we are dumbing down our children.

• The Next Economy (Bill Shireman, Colliers)

• State-run banks:  a movement driven by unusual politics (Marshall Swearingen, North Country News)  Hat tip to Public Banking Institute.

• Some of America’s richest people are about to get even richer thanks to the fiscal cliff (Matt Phillips, Quartz)

• 9 Greedy CEO’s Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare (Lynne Parramore, AlterNet)  Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.

• The challenges beyond the crisis (Jose Mauel Salazar-Xirinachs, International Labour Organization)

• 15 Things More Likely than Winning the Powerball Lottery (The Huffington Post)

• Beaten-down dividend bargains (Nilius Mattive, Money and Markets)

• Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Apparently Can’t Remember Anything (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Taibblog)  Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture.

• Fiscal Cliff Showing Many GOP Beliefs To Be Myths (Stab Cllander, Capital Gains and Games)

• How to make your children intelligent (Economic Logic) Hat tip to The Big Picture.

• Google’s Thrun:  ‘We’re really dumbing down our children’ (Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy) Hat tip to Lynn Wheeeler)