Weekend Reads

July 16, 2011 7:02am by

Some interesting reads for your weekend pleasure:

• Return of the Gold Standard as world order unravels (Telegraph) see also Fed Official: It’s Time For Rates To Go Up (NPR)

• As a Watchdog Starves, Wall Street Is Tossed a Bone (NYT)

• Worried About Debt Limit? The Bond Market Isn’t (Bloomberg) see also Why Obama Has Already Won the Debt-Limit Fight (Bloomberg)

• Warning Signal? Dow Jones Transports Slumping (WSJ)

• Why Some Home Sellers Are More Delusional Than Others (Moneyland) see also Beginning of the end of the entire Housing crisis? (Market Watch)

• Dimon Says Mortgage Clash Swells as ‘Everybody Is Going to Sue’ (Businessweek)

• Murdoch’s (In-House) Legal Woes (Media Matters) see also Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch’s American media empire ‘could unravel’ (Telegraph) and US AG Holder Considers News Corp. Probe (Daily Beast)

• Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope (Businessweek)

• Why Netflix Raised Its Prices (NYT)

• How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal (Guardian)

What are you reading?

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