Author Archives: Claudia Soria

Interesting Links of the Day – July 3, 2012

1. The U.S. Census Bureau: Measuring America’s People, Places & Economy Through the Decades – Infographic (US Census Bureau)
2. Rich cities: Cities that lead in high-income households – G. Scott Thomas (The Business Journals)
3. Oil at six-week high on Iran worries – Claudia Assis and V. Phani Kumar (Market Watch)

Interesting Links of the Day – July 2, 2012

1. Europe’s bank recapitalisation: The creation of a new stigma? TomasBerggren (TradingFloor.com)
2. Mismeasuring Poverty – Mark Levinson (The American Prospect)
3. Failed States Index belongs in the policy dustbin – Claire Leigh (The Guardian)

 

Interesting Links of the Day – June 29, 2012

1. Peak oil; prices that is – Phil Flynn (Futures Magazine)
2. Hot US weather drives crops and gas higher – Ole Hansen (TradingFloor.com)
3. Manufacturing Wages Shrink To Their Lowest Level In 5 Months | CHART – Eric Platt (Business Insider)

 

 

Housing Market: Interesting Links of the Day – June 28, 2012

1. Housing Exuberance Led by Shiller’s U.S. Glamorous Cities – Steve Matthews and Prashant Gopal (Bloomberg)
2. After Years of False Hopes, Signs of a Turn in Housing – Binyamin Applebaum (New York Times)
3. Nikkei 225 Rises on U.S. Housing Data, Japan Retail Sales – Norie Kuboyama (Business Week)
4. OMG: The Housing Market Is Booming All Over The Place – Matthew Boesler (Business Insider)

Interesting Links of the Day – June 27, 2012

1. Inequality of What? Francisco Ferreira (World Bank)
2. Banking Disunion – Xavier Vives (Project Syndicate)
3. Consumer confidence in U.S. decreases to a five-month low – Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg (Futures Magazine)

Interesting Links of the Day – June 26, 2012

1. BRICs biggest currency depreciation since 1998 to worsen – Ye Xie and Michael Patterson, Bloomberg (Futures Magazine)
2. Central bank existential crisis confirmed – Izabella Kaminska (Financial Times)
3. Here’s The Solution To The ‘Ultimate Financial Contradiction’ – Joe Weisenthal (Business Insider)

 

Interesting Links of the Day – June 25, 2012

1. Gender Equality: Smart Economics & Smart Business – Rachel Kyte (World Bank)
2. Traders sue CME Group over price-settlement rule change – Andrew Harris (Futures Magazine)
3. Poverty rates fell sharply in the new millennium – LTD Editors (World Bank)
4. Bee book opens a window on key part of agriculture (Ganaderia Mexico)

Interesting Links of the Day – June 22, 2012

1. Rio+20 Earth summit on 20 June – in pictures (The Guardian)
2. Rio+20: Development banks to invest $175 billion in sustainable transport (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012)
3. Rio+20: protecting the environment is not enough – Antonio Patriota (The Guardian)
4. The greening (?) of agriculture in Latin America – John Nash (World Bank)

 

Interesting Links of the Day – June 21, 2012

1. Monitoring Inequality – Martin Ravallion (World Bank)
2. Eurozone debt crisis poses serious threat to emerging markets – Mark Tran (The Guardian)
3. China’s food fright and the containment challenge – Gong Jing and Cui Zheng (Market Watch)
4. The Ill Wind from the West – Jaswant Singh (Project Syndicate)

 

Interesting Links of the Day – June 20, 2012

1. Let them eat laptops? Michael Trucano (World Bank)
2. Bringing Access to Safe Water in Ceará, Brazil: PepsiCo Foundation and the Columbia Water Center to Participate in Rio+20 – Silvia Cruz-Vargas (State of the Planet)
3. Greece and the Limits of Anti-Austerity – Mark Roe (Project Syndicate)