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Asmussen leaves German lab ministry after tension with left-spd minister Nahles. Next stop KfW https://t.co/B3pQv5iq6v via @SPIEGELONLINE

Damning Delong review of Bernanke’s memoir. Was lack of courage the issue? Or Bernanke’s deep down conservatism? https://t.co/8IB9zGiZSs

Europe as a post-post-democracy with the bad habit of still holding elections https://t.co/0SXxEZH9xv

After FAZ declared the end of the West, Spiegel declares that there is a “Schmittian climate” in Europe:nhttps://t.co/0SXxEZH9xv

FT finds that key ECB figures confer regularly with private interests. Not surprising, but crucial documentation. https://t.co/ssyPhGwk0d

Americans overestimate scale of foreign aid budget by a factor of 28!!!!!! https://t.co/REnFGBFn3X

Landesbanken at it again, following the Mittelstand into globalization. https://t.co/Uu9FH8Eu7L via @WSJ

Mind-bending on how shifting bargaining power of labour v. capital changes portfolio allocation decisions nhttps://t.co/qX9Un4WsfY

For the ECB, Greece is always a special case. https://t.co/MnNoWSTUDq

"Deepening the relationship with our associates" is a funny euphemism for "giving people a non-temporary job" https://t.co/VI3o22ym58

Summers v. Krugman reaching a point from which u can escape only through POLITICAL economy. Krugman already there. https://t.co/O6PjFclblE

Rufmord als Methode: The recent appearance at Munich no exception. Sueddeutsche host shocking! https://t.co/9VbEFr8Hnm

Record 218,000 people crossed Mediterranean in October, UN says https://t.co/9w5lsotyF2

According to FAZ Merkel's refusal to impose quantitative limits on refugee crisis implies "End of the West" https://t.co/KhM6ldwaEB

Routine "return of geopolitics" fare from Joschka Fischer … predictable perhaps but disappointing https://t.co/RENq3LzVa4 via @po_st

China needs 5 year plan to avoid debt-deflation: The melding of Stalin and Fisher no longer even seems strange https://t.co/yFWTrdQz1C

krugman: will even a credible promise to be irreponsible work in Japan if noone believes inflation will rise? https://t.co/6XOOag9dsH

Krugman on Japan: prob confronting monetary policy is harder because demand weakness looks like permanent condition nhttps://t.co/6XOOag9dsH

Summers: where is the impulse to come from that Krugman assumes will lift economy out of Liquidity Trap? https://t.co/2ftmvZcz2A

Summers: essence of secular stag. idea = no assurance that cap. econ when plunged into downturn will revert to norm nhttps://t.co/v1dZQfgdMp