Interesting Picks

MacroMan is critical of the sticky price hypothesis.

Arnold Kling on some saving and economic identities.

Bill Easterly looks at the development institutions implications of the Uruguay-Ghana game.

Yves Smith summarizes and discusses Martin Wolf's latest Wednesday column. BTW, there is an interesting piece from the guy I first learned International Macro. from as well.

What economists can teach World Cup coaches.

FT's Beyond Brics takes on the latest Turkish inflation figure. It is really tragi-comic that theist short analysis is better than anything I've seen in the Turkish media.

Felix Salmon on CMA Datavisions's latest sovereign risk report. I have the complete report, so email me if you are interested.

The google way of measuring sentiment.

Speaking of indicators, yet another one on jobs.

If you are into international equities for the long haul, I might have found the perfect site for you.

Interesting piece on why there are no Chinese football stars. Intriguing argument, but why are there so many Brazilian stars? Besides, if you don't have much mobility options, football would be one of the few real chances of the poor in the developing world for prosperity.

As Mark Tahoma notes, it is difficult to believe this was written over 70 years ago- could have as well been written yesterday.

As I always say, it matters a great deal which interest rate you are talking about.

Goldman Sachs is worried about the US economy.