2012 Articles of Interest

DECEMBER

A housing boom could be coming, some experts say

Economic optimism now official

Bank of England warns of triple dip

Banks Discover Money Management Again as Trading Declines

Canadian household debt hits new high

China's Consumptive Consumption

Colleges Debt Falls on Students After Construction Binges

Euro zone faces deepest downturn since early 2009

False hope springs eternal in the eurozone

France Seeks New Path to High Tax Rate

France Sexy No More for Entrepreneurs Escaping Hollande

Hollande Minister's Mittal Nationalization Call Sparks Furor

Home Seizures Rise as Banks Adjust to Foreclosure Flow

Illinois the 'Unfixable'

IMF agrees more aid for Ireland and urges easing of austerity

Japan Tankan Business Confidence Falls to Near 3-Year Low

More U.S. Consumers Climb Out of Debt

Portugal braced for "fiscal earthquake"

Shaky foundations - How Ottawa's computers get Canadian home prices wrong

U.S. on Pace for Slowest Decade of Population Growth Since 1930s

Union Solidarity rubs against slow economy in LA ports strike

NOVEMBER

1930s medicine pushes Europe back into double-dip recession

Angst returns on German recession fears and US fiscal cliff

Anti-austerity strikes sweep Europe

Baby Boomers Blunt Fed Easing While Saving for Retirement

Banks are shrinking for good as job cuts near 160,000

Canada job numbers hide the fact that private sector bleeding jobs

CEO Council Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff

Corporate China's Black Hole of Debt

Credit Rating Firms in EU to Face Sovereign Debt Limits

Don't cry for me, Francois

Economy Set for Better Times Whether Obama or Romney Wins

Euro Crisis Weighs on Germany's Economy

European Bankruptcies May Soon Jump

FHA to Exhaust Capital Reserves

Ford Cuts Shift at B-Max Assembly Plant, Offers Buyouts

German Unemployment Increased for an Eighth Month in November

OCTOBER

A call for frank talk about our debt from Bill Clinton (and me)

A Very Strange Way to Assess the Safety of Banks

Aldi Following Trader Joe's as Germans Spurn Austerity

Analysts Cut Profit 52% as Europe Valuations Hit 2 Year High

Another domino falls as Hollande pushes France into depression

Applied Materials to Cut Up to 9 Percent of Staff Amid Slump

Banks Must Cut Deeper to Help Prices, Mckinsey Says

Barclays slashes bankers pay by up to half as profits fall

BlackRock's Fink Says U.S. a Year Away From Robust Growth

BofA Says Putback Losses May Be $6 Billion Above Reserve

Bubble-Era Financing Returns as Profits Falter

Burdened by Old Mortgages, Banks Are Slow to Lend Now

Bureaucrats Paid $250,000 Feed Outcry Over College Costs

China's GDP is "man-made," unreliable: top leader

Corporate Sales Seen Falling in Quarter

SEPTEMBER

Alberta deficit set to triple slumping oil prices

America May Have Too Many College Graduates

Birinyi Sees S&P 500 at 1,500 While Warning on Trading Risks

China Confronts Mounting Piles of Unsold Goods

Global business barometer

Dark clouds gather over China's once-booming solar industry

Despite the crisis, Britons are still spending like drunkards

Employers to cut jobs if economy doesn't pick up

Finland prepares for break-up of eurozone

France Debt 'Significantly Overvalued'

It's the capital requirements, stupid

Australia's capex cliff

Iron ore prices near three-year low

Who's "buying" this rally?

George Will Details Entitlement Crisis, 'Welfare State Death Spiral'

Macro Hedge Funds Lose Touch as Bacon Returns $2 Billion

Spanish banks increasingly dependent on ECB drip

Alberta deficit set to triple slumping oil prices

America May Have Too Many College Graduates

Birinyi Sees S&P 500 at 1,500 While Warning on Trading Risks

China Confronts Mounting Piles of Unsold Goods

Global business barometer

Dark clouds gather over China's once-booming solar industry

Despite the crisis, Britons are still spending like drunkards

Employers to cut jobs if economy doesn't pick up

Finland prepares for break-up of eurozone

France Debt 'Significantly Overvalued'

It's the capital requirements, stupid

Australia's capex cliff

Iron ore prices near three-year low

Who's "buying" this rally?

George Will Details Entitlement Crisis, 'Welfare State Death Spiral'

Macro Hedge Funds Lose Touch as Bacon Returns $2 Billion

Spanish banks increasingly dependent on ECB drip

 

AUGUST

BMW's 'Demo' Sales Boost Results

Carmakers stuff German market with self-sales

China Export Growth Slides as World Recovery Slows

Euro-Area Economic Output Contracted on Spain: Economy

Christie Signs Bill Overhauling Job Guarantees for Teachers

Hard landing for China as facotry prices fall and deflation looms

Japan Growth May Slow to Half Previous Pace as Exports Wane

Losing 500,000 Jobs Seen New Reality of Europe Crisis

Many New York City Teachers Denied Tenure in Policy Shift

San Bernardino, California, Files Chapter 9 Bankruptcy

Sicily's Fiscal Problems Threaten to Swamp Italy

Stocks Cheaper Than Any U.S. Peak in 23 Years

World shipping crisis threatens German dominance as Greeks win long game

World's Oldest Shipping Company Closes in Industry Slide

JULY

China heads for a hard landing

China's inventory-building masking a bigger demand slump

Cities Consider Seizing Mortgages

How Stockton went broke: A 15-year spending binge

Europe's bad debts 'will bite in 2013'

Francois Hollande annouces French tax grab on holiday homes

IMF to trim growth forecast as global crisis deepens

Merkel breaks German law on ESM rescue

US factory output at three-year low

US manufacturing contraction feeds fear of global slowdown

MAY

Americans Are Under Planning For Their Financial Futures

Austerity is a myth to con the financial markets, City firm tells Cameron

Bad Models Mistook Housing Bust for Dot-Com Bubble

BofA to Cut From Elite Ranks

California Deficit Swells to $16 Billion, Governor Brown Says

China Real Estate Unravels

Electoral silence on France's slow economic decline

France faces 40pc house price slump

China's economic data disaster

High earners say au revoir to France

Italy's banks shaken as economic slump deepens

Nearly Half Of Americans Aren't Saving For Retirement

Many Workers Have Savings Below $25K, EBRI Says

Spain Underplaying Bank Losses Faces Ireland Fate

Truck Cancellations Hit Two-Year High as Rebound Slows

World edges closer to deflationary slump as money contracts in China

APRIL

Europe's banks beached as ECB stimulus runs dry

Argentine Shortages Range From Drugs to Salom on Import Cuts

10 More Years Of Low Returns

Bank of America Faces Bad Home-Equity Loans: Mortgages

Barclays rocked by new claim of swaps mis-selling

California Teacher Fund Targets Pension-Inflating Spiking

Euro-Region Unemployment Surges to 14-Year High, Nears Record

Fitch doubts Dutch AAA as property slump reaches 'coma'

Illinois 'Treads Water' as Unpaid Bills Top $9 Billion

German tempers boil over back-door euro rescues

IMF encourages Europe's economic suicide

Rajoy Says Spain in 'Extreme Difficulty' as Bond Demand Drops

Rousseff Orders $35 Billion Stimulus to Aid Brazil Industry

Sony to Eliminate 10,000 Jobs, 6% of Workforce, Nikkei Says

Spain Faces Risks in Budget Refit

Spain's 'lose-lose' struggle reignites euro crisis

Surprise! You owe another $54 billion

Superyacht owners turn to arson to get through austerity

Swimming naked in Brazil's bubbly water

Time to Cast More Light on Finance's 'Shadows'

Trouble in shipping turns ocean into scrapheap

MARCH

Bernanke says U.S. needs faster growth

Geithner Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds

Banks set to cut $1tn from balance sheets

Bernanke Sees Need for Higher Household Spending to Fuel Growth

Greece's Fringe Parties Surge Amid Bailout Ire

Italian Government Debt Increases to $2.5 Trillion With Euro Bailout Costs

Japan's Trade Deficit Widens to a Record as Export Slump Deepens: Economy

Light Beer Fights for Life as Craft Brews Invade Shelves

Newspapers Lose $10 Dollars in Print for Every Digital $1

Portugal Town Halls Face Default Amid $12 Billion Debt

Spain Sinks Deeper Into Periphery on Debt Rise

Stress Tests Pass Fed's Flim-Flam Standard: Jonathan Weil

Triple trouble in Europe, US and China brings out the bears

Dutch Freedom Party pushes euro exit as 2.4 trillion rescue bill looms

ECB's Mario Draghi raises the stakes with trillion euro gamble

Elpida Files for Protection in Biggest Japanese Bankruptcy for Two Years

Euro-Region Economy Contracts as Investment, Exports Decline

The Eurozone youth of today

Global liquidity peak spells trouble for late 2012

Goldman Secret Greece Loan Reveals Sinners

Italian tax men blitz the chic in ski resort raids

Greenhut: If Stockton Is Broke, Then Why Isn't San Diego?

Japan's Central Bank Joins Peers in Opening the Taps

Spain appeals to Brussels for easier deficit reduction targets

Spanish revolt brews as national economic rearmament begins in Europe

Student Loan Delinquency Reached $85 Billion in Third Quarter

The European fallacy of Ireland and the Baltics

Toronto Condo Bubble Risk Topping New York

US taxpayers to subsidise $40bn housing settlement

USPS Loses $3.3B, Warns of Cash Drain

Wall Street Bonuses Fall 14% to Lowest Since 2008 in New York Projection

What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In

FEBRUARY

25% of Mortgages 'face write-down'

Atlanta BofA Tower Auction Highlights Foreclosures

America's incredible shrinking labour force

'Bloated' London Banks Shrink in City as Europe Takes Aim

Borrowers turn lenders as banks tap firms for cash

China tells banks to roll over loans

China's very mysterious data

Cuomo's New York Budget Faces Union Fight on Pensions, Teachers

David Rosenberg: Bearish and Sticking To It

Deutsche Analyst Sounded Alarm When Asked to Alter Numbers

Destructive Austerity, USA

E.U. Leaders Set to Conclude Austerity Is Not Enough

Freight rates go negative

Itchy Investors Ramp Up the Risk

Mario Draghi, the Latin Bloc's monetarist avenger

One Third of New Yorkers Can't Retire

Swedish Banks Told to Grid for Second European Credit Crisis, Frisell Says

The Euro is pushing Italy into depression

JANUARY

Fast cars and loose fiscal morals: there are more Porsches in Greece than taxpayers declaring 50,000 euro income

Italian tax authorities to raid summer resorts in crackdown

Italy, Europe, and Red Brigade terror

How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word of Frannie Rescue

Market Shrinks First Time Since '09

Stock Trading Is Lowest in U.S. Since 2008

WhatWould New York Look Like With a Smaller Financial Sector?

Most of the Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits

Weil: Why Zombie Banks Hate to Write Off Bad Loans

World's Biggest Economies Face $7.6 Trillion Debt

Tale of two labour markets: Spain's jobless rise while German unemployment lowest since unification

Spain jobless figure hit 'astronomical' 5.4 mn

French 'don't get' problems at euro's heart

Lagarde warns of global depression

Italy welfare minister breaks down in tears as government agrees austerity measures