What We Read Today 02 December 2012

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The top of our reading list is a discussion about why the fundamentals of recent economic growth are not fine …… and the last is a study of 30 years of tax change.

• Fundamentals of Recent Economic Growth Are Not Fine (Niraj Chokshi, National Journal)

• A new age of biosurveillance is upon us (Gregory Goth, Government Health IT) Hat tip to Roger Erickson and to Open Health News.

• What Does it Mean for Fiscal Policy to be “Sustainable”?  MMT and Other Perspectives (Ed Dolan, Fabius Maximus)

• Busting CEOs on Insider Trading Is the Tough Job (Eliot Spitzer, The Daily Beast)

• Will Homebuilders Continue To Outperform? (Investopedia) Econintersect has been recommonding this sector for the past two years.

• 50 years of trading:  Larry Williams looks back (Darrell Jobman, Futures magazine)

• My Case for Jumping Off the Fiscal Cliff (Shah Gilani, Wall Street Insights & Indictments)

• Congress looks at doing away with the $1 bill (Kevin Freking, AP, MSN Money)

• Popular Delusions:  The bull case for safe havens (John Mauldin and Dylan Grice, Mauldin Economics Outside the Box and Societe Generale)

• How the Tax Burden Has Changed (Mike Bostock, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times) Hat tip to Flowing Data.