Economy:
Vanishing workforce weighs on growth – Washington Post
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels – ZeroHedge
The Fries-With-That Economy – New York Times
Graph: Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate – 25 to 54 years – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Markets:
My Hyperinflation Vacation – Atlantic
The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency – Felix Salmon (Reuters)
Gold drops to lowest settlement since June – Marketwatch
Politics:
BOJ to pump $1.4 trillion into economy in unprecedented stimulus – Reuters
Portugual Mulls Paying Workers in T-Bills – Library Of Economics and Liberty
Climate legislation to prevent an oil-lubricated collapse – Aftenbladet
The Business of the Minimum Wage – New York Times
Why the Fed can’t help the long-term unemployed – CNN Money
Banks:
A banking union for the Eurozone – Vox
Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit – Washington Post
Where did all the money go?: As Cypriots are discovering, wealth can prove to be illusory – Economist
