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The top of today’s reading list has Barry Ritholtz asking if the window is closing to fix infrastructure using low interest rates …….. and the last article is about how house flipping has returned to the U.S. housing market.
- Rising interest rates could mean the window to fix infrastructure on the cheap is closing (Barry Ritholtz, The Washington Post)
- IMF urges China to implement critical economic reforms (Simon Rabinovitch, Financial Times) Time is “running short” for rebalancing. And Kate Mackenzie (FT) says current data shows no rebalancing is happening. See also this from yesterday’s list.
- NSA warned to rein in surveillance as agency reveals even greater scope (Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian, 17 July 2013) Hat tip to Rob Carter.
- Move Over Economists; Time to Give Physicists a Turn (Michael J. Cassidy, MoneyBeat, The Wall Street Journal) See also recent GEI News article.
- The Stunning Image Of ‘The Lady In Red’ Will Endure Even After The Turkey Protests End (Michael Kelley, Business Insider) Turkey shows how to control dangerous mobs.
Click on picture for wider image of the danger being addressed by Turkish police.
- The Fringe Factor: The Perils of Sex Ed (Caitlin Dickson, The Daily Beast)
- New Glass-Steagall Is Needed to Protect Main Street From Wall Street: Ritholtz (Matt Nesto, Yahoo Finance) See also GEI News.
- Weekly Update: Existing Home Inventory is up 18.1% year-to-date on July 15th (Bill McBride, Calculated Risk)
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- Fair Play Measured in Slivers of a Second (James B. Stewart, The New York Times) See also GEI News.
- Flipping returns to the US housing market (Uncoventional Economist, Macro Business)
