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The top of today’s reading list has Frank Holmes making the case for gold …….. and the last article is about fourth graders doing crowdsourcing using Kickstarter.
- In Gold We Trust (Frank Holmes, Advisor Perspectives) Frank Holmes has contributed to Global Economic Intersection. See also current article by John N. Katz.
- Inspecting A Country’s Debt (Investopedia)
- First Mini-Supernovas Discovered (Charles Q. Choi and Space.com, Scientific American)
- UPDATE 2-Lehman plans to distribute $14.2 bln to creditors (Reuters, 27 March 2013) This will bring recovery up to 15 % with an estimate that it will eventually be 20%. This has been a 4 1/2 year process so far and not finished. Makes Cyprus look pretty good with 20% to 60% recovery expected and in much less time.
- BRICS nations fail to launch new bank (Al Jeazeere, 27 March 2013) A few days ago we had a reading list article that was optimistic this would happen.
- Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet (John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times, 26 March 2013)
- Banking as a Criminal Enterprise: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Shah Gilani, Wall Street Insights & Indictments, 28 March 2013) Shah Gilani is a Global Economic Intersection contributor.
- Who is going to service exchanges? (John Lamb, Employee Benefit Adviser) Could Obamacare success hinge on customer service?
- Altering of 401(k) tax incentives alarms retirement industry (Danielle Andrus, benefitspro)
- Crowdfunding success for 4th-grader solar-powered classroom bid (Paul Ridden, gizmag) Article includes short video of children explaining their project funded through Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site used by Global Economic Intersection contributors to raise money to fund the Sundance award winning documentary movie Inequality for All (Robert Reich) and to get software development funding for the Minsky financial system modeling program (Steve Keen).
