For the commute home,
- The House is set to vote at 6pm New York time on the Republicans’ doomed bill.
- Obama should just ignore the debt ceiling.
- A real-time analysis of the US treasury’s cashflow.
- (Incidentally, Apple now has more cash than the US government.)
- Everyone is going crazy for the idea of a $1,000bn coin.
- A captioned picture version of the debt ceiling story.
- Kaufmann’s latest quarterly survey of economics bloggers.
- “Mucus is a vicious, thick substance” and other exam howlers.
- In Steinbeck’s footsteps.
- The IMF releases its staff report on Spain.
- More on the Lehman and Ernst & Young Repo 105 trial.
- A bit more on today’s disappointing US GDP report.
- Echoes of 1953.
- Further, weekend reading.