30 May 2013

Linkfest: Pork; Cyber-Criminal Crypto-Currencies; Quantitative Easing; Debt

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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. Smithfield Foods Nears Sale to China’s Shuanghui
Wall Street Journal
shared by @AnjuliDavies, @prchovanec, Business Insider, @kmac, FT Alphaville and 4 more

2. After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’ve concluded that high debt does not cause low growth
Quartz
shared by @ObsoleteDogma, @JustinWolfers, reddit/Economics, @Noahpinion, @IvanTheK

3. QE: Because Nobody’s Got Any Better Ideas
pawelmorski.com
shared by @GavanNolan, @TheStalwart, @kmac, @finansakrobat, @gusbaratta and 6 more

4. ECB President Draghi Takes Criticism for Euro Policy
Der Spiegel
shared by @EconBrothers, @Pawelmorski, @gusbaratta

5. Liberty Reserve: A cyberweb of intrigue
ticotimes.net
shared by @felixsalmon, @carney, @AmerBanker

6. Central Banks Act With a New Boldness
New York Times
shared by Economist’s View, @tradefast, @JamesGRickards, @Alea_, @MarkThoma, @counterparties

7. Too-Big-to-Fail Myths, Goldman Sachs Edition
Bloomberg
shared by @markgongloff, @neilbarofsky, @ToddSullivan, The Big Picture and 4 more

8. Fast and Furious Economics
Slate
shared by @kevinroose, reddit/Economics, @ezraklein, @interfluidity, @peter_tl, @Pawelmorski

9. EU eases hard line on austerity
Financial Times
shared by Business Insider, Naked Capitalism, @FGoria, @D_Blanchflower and 2 more

10. U.S. shuts digital money system it suspects of criminal links
Reuters
shared by @prchovanec, @fiatcurrency, Naked Capitalism, @firoozye, @wonkmonk_, @jmackin2

11. (bonus) 17% of Harvard grads say they’re starting jobs in finance v. 47% in 2007
thecrimson.com
shared by @markgongloff, @LongShortTrader, Marginal Revolution, @crampell and 8 more

Tags: Austerity, central banks, China, Draghi, ECB, Fast and Furious, Goldman Sachs, monetary policy, Pork, QE, Reinhart rogoff, TBTF

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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.