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Naked Capitalism

Michael Olenick: Consumer Reports Joins Obama in Telling Obamacare Big Lies
Rob Parenteau: How to Exit Austerity, Without Exiting the Euro

Calculated Risk

Sunday Night Futures: Taper Talk and "Small Ball" Budget Agreement
Graphs: Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education, Construction Employment and Diffusion Indexes

Paul Krugman

Badge of Seriousness Watch
Lucius Live (Personal)

Eyes on Trade

WTO’s Legitimacy So Diminished that Simply Agreeing on Anything Is Touted as Success
Members of Congress: Fast Tracking the TPP is a Non-Starter

Trade Reform

Do We Need Fast Track/Trade Promotion Authority?
Chinese Quality Buildings… Tipping Over

Atlanta Fed's Macroblog

Is (Risk) Sharing Always a Virtue?

Zero Hedge

South Korea Unveils It's Own Air Defense Zone, Overlapping China's And Japan's
On The Taper Timing, It's The WSJ vs The NYT

Economy in Crisis

The Disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership and Unconstitutional Fast Track Authority
Toxic, Dangerous Food Imports Continue To Flood U.S. Markets

The Baseline Scenario

No You Can’t

Manufacture This

Kickstarting a manufacturing renaissance
December 6, 2013: The #AAMeter, it moves (in the right direction)!

Beat The Press

Will the South Walk Away from Obamacare?
Patent Monopolies Lead to Corruption: #43,261

FT Alphaville

Further reading
The road to liberalistation is paved with certificates of deposit

Econbrowser

Current economic conditions
The Output Gap: Cumulative Losses, 2013Q3

EPI

Lies, Damn Lies, and Retirement Savings
What To Watch On Jobs Day: Even Without Furloughed Workers, Government Employment is Still Too Low

The Big Picture

East Asian Kerfuffle
Governments Admit They Carry Out False Flag Terror

Angry Bear

Krugman is honest & Noah Smith is insightful
2013 Trustees Report:

Steve Keen's Debtwatch

Don’t Do the Math
Critiquing Secular Stagnation–without the irony

iMFdirect

Korea: Keeping It Dynamic
Cambodia: Moving Beyond The Frontier

CBO

S. 1611, Federal Data Center Consolidation Act of 2013
Medicare's Payment to Physicians

BEA

Personal Income and Outlays, October 2013
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2013 (second estimate); Corporate Profits, 3rd quarter 2013 (preliminary estimate)

GAO

GAO-14-25, Medicaid: CMS Should Ensure That States Clearly Report Overpayments, December 06, 2013
GAO-14-95, Internal Controls: Corrective Actions Under Way to Address Control Deficiencies at the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, December 06, 2013

Tax Justice Network

Links Dec 6
Links Dec 5

Wall Street On Parade

Obama and the Pope Versus the Ayn Rand Corporate Front Groups
Citigroup and JPMorgan Settle With EU Commission for Rigging Libor; U.S. Justice Department Stays Mum

Next New Deal

Daily Digest - December 6: The Sky Isn't Falling From Minimum Wage Hikes
Obama Updates His Story About America

Instapopulist

Real Retail Sales Increased ~.75% in October
McDonald's Tells Employees To Make Rent Go Without Heat

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