Economy:
US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s – Yahoo! News
Our Ridiculous Approach to Retirement – New York Times
How the Elites Built America’s Economic Wall – Bloomberg
Economic history: Muddled models – Economist
Goldman: The rest of you should invest in America – Reuters
Many use payday loans to cover food, rent – MSNBC
Markets:
Silicon Valley Surgeons Risk ‘Moral Authority’ For 200% Returns – Bloomberg
Arming for the Syrian War: Do Soaring Prices Predict Escalating Conflict? – New York Times
Crops suffer as drought intensifies in U.S. breadbasket – Reuters
Drought Conditions Driving Corn and Soy to The Sky—Will Central Banks Make Things Worse? – Slate
Politics:
The eurozone’s religious faultline – BBC
Korea Feed Group Asks U.S. to Curb Corn, Soybean Use in Biofuel – BusinessWeek
Banks:
The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How Goldman Sachs Captured Europe – Global Research
From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street – Rolling Stone(Matt Taibbi)
U.S. banks haunted by mortgage demons that won’t go away – Reuters
