06 May 2013

Linkfest: Housing pain at pre-crisis levels; Oil, gold booms fade; Buffett-alooza; L’austerité, c’est fini; Niall’s no-good weekend

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Linkfest.com finds today’s top headlines by following the best ‘curators’ on the Web and on Twitter, and by your votes and social media shares – pick the most important stories you think should appear by voting here.

1. Housing Crash Fades as Defaults Decline to 2007 Levels
Bloomberg
shared by @MattGoldstein26, Crossing Wall Street, @TimOBrien

2. The Oil and Gold Booms Are Over
Bloomberg
shared by @TheStalwart, @prchovanec, Business Insider, @finansakrobat and 6 more

3. As Companies Step Up Buybacks, Executives Benefit, Too
Wall Street Journal
shared by @LaurenLaCapra, @nancefinance, @ericjackson, @JeffMacke

4. Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram
Vanity Fair
shared by @StKonrath, @AntDeRosa, NYT Dealbook, @lucymarcus, @newsycombinator, @Techmeme

5. A Call for New Blood on the JPMorgan Board
New York Times
shared by @LaurenLaCapra, @retheauditors, @IvanTheK, @AmerBanker

6. A Lesson From Warren Buffett: Doubt Yourself
Wall Street Journal
shared by @derekhernquist, @JeffMacke, @TimOBrien, @ReformedBroker and 5 more

7. German euro founder calls for ‘catastrophic’ currency to be broken up
The Telegraph
shared by @prchovanec, @fiatcurrency, Naked Capitalism, reddit/Economics and 2 more

8. Seth Klarman Expains When "Investing Is At Its Hardest" And Why He Is Not Joining The Momentum Trade
ZeroHedge
shared by Reformed Broker, @MattGoldstein26, @businessinsider, @ReformedBroker and 2 more

9. France Declares Austerity Over as Germany Offers Wiggle Room
Bloomberg
shared by @volatilitysmile, Crossing Wall Street, Calculated Risk, @TheIntuitInvest

10. The cost of hand-to-mouth living
Financial Times
shared by @SonyKapoor, @mccarthyryanj, Naked Capitalism, reddit/Economics and 4 more

11 (bonus). Harvard Professor Trashes Keynes For Homosexuality
fa-mag.com
shared by @LaurenLaCapra, @finansakrobat, @LongShortTrader, @prchovanec and 9 more

12 (bonus). An Unqualified Apology
niallferguson.com
shared by @mark_dow, @LongShortTrader, @prchovanec, @BCAppelbaum, @mattbish and 22 more

Tags: Austerity, Facebook, gold, Housing, JPMorgan, Oil and Gas, Seth Klarman, Warren Buffett

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About the Author(s)

Druce Vertes, CFA

Druce Vertes, CFA, is the founder of StreetEYE, a social news aggregator for financial market news. He previously worked as an analyst, consultant, and IT manager at several major sell-side firms and hedge funds.