Elsewhere on Wednesday,
- Great inflation rates in history.
- Stocks shout ‘recovery’, what do other markets say?
- Annals of Icelandic overspending, Kaupthinking edition.
- Blame the lawyers for bank bonuses.
- An alternative Big Mac index.
- “Why does unemployment increase faster than it goes down?”
- Toxic debt deja vu.
- The £15,000-a-month KPMG wife.
- The Jackson Hole archive.
- The real reasons for China’s real estate boom.
- The volatile Baltic Dry.
- Further, further reading.
Bernanke Bonus,
- Dear Ben… Love Mom.
- Roubini on the reappointment of Bernanke.
- Bernanke is the world’s most dangerous man.
- Bernanke’s next tasks.
- “He’s kind of like a student who doesn’t do so hot in the midterm but does very well in the final.”
- Six bad calls by Bernanke, a slideshow.
- Let us chat about Bernanke.