Economy:
Our drunken economics explained – Independent
Economists See No Crisis With U.S. Debt as Economy Gains – Bloomberg
Markets:
As Cyprus Implodes, Bitcoin Interest Explodes – Fox News
Mike Merrill Is a Publicly Traded Person – Motherboard
Home sales reach highest rate since 2009 – Marketwatch
Politics:
Cyprus weighs big bank levy; bailout goes down to wire – Reuters
Forget Cyprus, Nobody Is Stealing from Depositors More than Bernanke – Daily Ticker
The beginnings of ‘financial repression’? – BBC
How Franklin Roosevelt Secretly Ended the Gold Standard – Bloomberg
Senate Passes $3.7 Trillion Budget, Setting Up Contentious Negotiations – New York Times
Banks:
Spain braces for ‘tsunami’ of bankruptcies as banks pull plug on zombie developers – Financial Post
