Global Markets
Should the Fed open a brokerage account? (Businessweek).
The Drezner-Bergsten interview on the international political economy (Foreign Policy).
Australian Markets
The Australian dollar and the commodities boom: “it looks to be in the throes of burning itself out.” (Market Anthropology).
Australians evade 2007-09 global financial crisis (but not 2011-12 Eurozone debt crisis). (Bloomberg).
Technology
Twitter systemic risk (The Atlantic Monthly; Wired).
Twitter mischief plagues Mexico’s election (Technology Review).
Politics
Should the United States lift a ban on domestic propaganda? (Reason).
Romney’s Bain pioneered outsourcing (Washington Post).
Policy
Test, learn, adapt: policymaking and randomised scientific trials (UK Cabinet Office).
Investment
The growing, for-profit detention industry (Mother Jones).
A history of Wall Street market research (Minyanville).
The scam Wall Street brokers learned from the Mafia (Rolling Stone).