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The top of today’s reading list discusses the production (mining) cost of silver …….. and the last article is about Sheila Barr’s claim that Dodd-Frank ends taxpayer bailouts.
- What It Really Costs To Mine Silver: The First Quarter Pan American Silver Edition (Hebba Investments, Seeking Alpha) Hat tip to John O’Donnell. Is the cost of producing silver now higher than the spot price?
- Greece: A reality check (Nick Malkoutzis, ekathimerini)
- 19 Lottery Winners Who Blew It All (Mandi Woodruff and Michael Kelley, Business Insider)
- A thousand days of austerity (Joaquin Estafania, El Pais) Spain still sinking.
- No More Mouse: Meet the Future of Computer’s Oldest Sidekick (Keith Wagstaff, Tech Page One)
- Fact-Checking Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: 10 Mistakes, False Statements, and Oversimplifications (Noah Charney, The Daily Beast) Unfortunately, the triviality of most of Charney’s observations far excceeds the import of most of what he cites.
- Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming ‘not as likely’ (Matt McGrath, BBC News) Hat tip to Russell Huntley. See fifth item yesterday.
- The Smith/Klein/Kalecki Theory of Austerity (Paul Krugman, The New York Times) Hat tip to Izabella Kaminska.
- Oregon’s Radical Health Overhaul Blazes New Trail (Ezra Klein, Bloomberg View)
- Sheila Bair: Dodd-Frank really did end taxpayer bailouts (Mike Konczal, The Washington Post) Mike Konczal contributes to Global Economic Intersection.
