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The internet is full of rumor and opinion tonight.


I have no solid news of events.

The best I can do for Europe is the troika has taken a break of about a week.
The Greeks have not found the cuts the troika demands.

Saturday, September 22, 2012 Links 9/22/12 Forest fires: Burn out Nature Researchers create single-atom silicon-based quantum computer ExtremeTech Study: Athletes Perform Better Under Pressure When They Make a Fist With Their Left Hand Atlantic. Too bad I have to use my left hand for SHIFT/FN/CTRL/OPT/CMD then. QE3 will not fix America’s problems, warns Paul Volcker Telegraph Oil’s mystery fall confounds QE3 critics FT A Federal Reserve Dove Emerges in Michigan Speech Businessweek Chicago Fed Study Blasts the Lid Off of High Frequency Trading Economic Populist Puzzle of falling UK labour productivity Martin Wolf, FT Coal Era Beckons for Europe as Carbon Giveaway Finishes Bloomberg Open Source Politics: The Radical Promise of Germany’s Pirate Party Atlantic Greece grapples with shadow of Golden Dawn FT Why Greece’s Neo-Nazis Are So Popular Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider. Social services! Catalan official makes fresh warning to government over independence El Pais Property porn, as it’s known in the trade FT Alphaville. Handy chart. Will Japan do to us on gas what we did to it on ore? Macrobusiness Japan’s no-nuke pledge is already fraying at the edges Asahi Shimbun Nick Jr. Suspends Production On ‘The Almighty Muhammad’s Porkalicious Toon Jihad’ America’s Finest News Source Obama officials’ spin on Benghazi attack mirrors Bin Laden raid untruths Glenn Greenwald, Guardian Final US ‘surge’ troops withdraw from Afghanistan Guardian Defense hawk wants out of Afghanistan: ‘We’re killing kids who don’t need to die’   AP. Wait, wait. As opposed to? The Definition of a Quagmire Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker Afghanistan – now what? Threat Matrix Jon Stewart: Chaos On Bullshit Mountain Jesse’s Café Américain Highest income counties in 2011 WaPo. V(ers)A(illes). Some life expectancies are shrinking Marginal Revolution. Policy success for the 1%. The decline of collective bargaining and the erosion of middle class incomes in Michigan Economic Policy Institute Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic Times Troika report on Greece may come after U.S. vote Reuters (Doug Terpstra). How considerate of the Eurocrats to make sure there are no market rumbles prior to the election. The Scandal of Chevy Volt-Gate! future of transporation Nationwide Protests to “End the Fed” This Weekend George Washington Intangible Dividend of Antipoverty Effort: Happiness Times My Triumph over the Bankers LBR. “Free forever.” Investors raise $8 billion for REO John Prior, HousingWire Fusion centers’ lameness thus far trumps potential civil liberties threats Grits for Breakfast. NYPD aims to prevent iPhone theft, accepting signups for device registry at Apple stores The Verge. What could go wrong? Glenn Gould: a wilfully idiotic genius? Guardian (with sample) Why J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ Isn’t Just For Kids WSJ. I remain thankful for having read the original Tolkien hardcovers with the fold-out maps, and having been raised on the Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Kenneth Graham’s The Wind in the Willows, P.J. Travers’ Mary Poppins, A. A. Milne’s Pooh, and Lucretia Hale’s Peterkin Papers, all “in the original.” As it were. * * * Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/links-92212.html#VI3Pj0L20DCdf29B.99 Just thinking on electric cars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_leaf @ $36,020 it looks to be pricy but possible. The range is good enough at about a hundred miles.  Charge at both ends of a long commute.  Consider the used market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevy_Volt Get a Leaf.  The Volt is an hybrid.  Prius does that better.