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The top of today’s reading list has advice from billionaires for 2013 college grads …….. and the last article describes how public-private partnerships are schemes to extract private profits from the public.
- Billionaire Advice For 2013 College Grads: Oprah, Melinda Gates, Steve Case And More (Brian Solomon, Forbes)
- What’s Wrong With Jamie Dimon Is What’s Wrong With America (Richard Eskow, Truth-out.org)
- Central Banks’ Central Bank Warns About Rehypothecation Threats (Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge)
- Like a Wasting Disease, Neoliberals, Libertarians & the Right are Eating Away Society’s “Connective Tissue” – Part 1 (Michael Hoexter, New Economic Perspectives) Michael Hoexter has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- Like a Wasting Disease, Neoliberals, Libertarians & the Right are Eating Away Society’s “Connective Tissue” – Part 2 (Michael Hoexter, New Economic Perspectives)
- Austerity is a moral issue (Nicholas Wapshott, Reuters) Don’t miss the comments either.
- U.S. stands out as a rich country where a growing minority say they can’t afford food (Bruce Stokes, Pew Research Center) Hat tip to The Big Picture. See a related article on the problems of the poor at GEI News.
- The Cat in the Tree and Further Observations: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy George Akerlof, IMF Direct) Hat tip to Menzie Chinn, Econbrowser.
- No cause for relief—austerity will indeed drag hard on the economy in 2013 and 2014 (Josh Bivins, Working Economics, Economic Policy Institute)
- Highway Robbery (Darwin Bondgraham, Dollars & Sense) Hat tip to The Big Picture.
