Econintersect: Every day our editors collect the most interesting things they find from around the internet and present a summary “reading list” which will include very brief summaries of why each item has gotten our attention. Suggestions from readers for “reading list” items are gratefully reviewed, although sometimes space limits the number accepted.
Today we continue our focus on the U.S. and global housing markets.
- China: From Making the World’s Stuff to Buying It (John Watling, The Financialist) Rebalancing in action?
- Wagering America on an untested monetary theory (Fabius Maximus) Fabius Maximus has contributed to Global Econiomic Intersection.
After years of quantitative easing, with the Fed starting to slow the third great wave, officials are breaking their facade of confidence to admit what many of us have long said. They do not know how QE works, or the effects of ending it.
- Stephen Hawking’s new theory offers black hole escape (Jacob Aron, New Scientist) In the general theory of relativity and in quantum mechanics physicists find conflicting descriptions of black holes. Physicists have been arguing about the nature of black holes within this context for decades. Stephen Hawking has published a new note which, while it doesn’t resolve the conflict, does provide an change in a position that he has held in debate. And when Hawking changes his mind it is an occassion of note. Click here for the complete note, “Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes“. Scientific American author Zeeya Merali writes that Stephen Hawking says: “There are no black holes“. Econintersect thinks that is an overstatement; Hawking says black holes may have properties different from traditional interpretations.
There are eleven articles on housing following.
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