Weekend Reading: Fear vs. Greed

Finally, here are some articles and papers worth reading:

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• Want Deposits? It Will Cost You. (IDD)
• Hedge-Fund Guy Points Toward Z-Shaped Recovery. (Bloomberg)
• Barron's pans Ivy League investing and picks Wendy's/Arby's(WEN). (Barron's)
• Consumer spending in Asia: Shopaholics wanted. (The Economist)
• The World Finance Crisis & the American Mission. (The New York Review of Books)
• Fitch Downgrades California GO Bonds to A-Minus. (Bond Buyer)
• Goldman Sachs(GS) as global economic hazard. (Rolling Stone)
• London prepares for a bumper year of IPOs. (Times of London)
• Why so many green jobs are sprouting in Colorado. (Slate)
• New Chinese bank loans said to top US$146b as regulators worry. (Shanghai Daily)
• JPMorgan(JPM) CEO warns against too many regulators. (Reuters)
• VW denies having issued ultimatum to Porsche. (Reuters)
• Global property slide may be long. (Reuters)
• Most expensive residential real estate markets in the world. (Infectious Greed)
• Geothermal firm Magma Energy sells 3x over-subscribed IPO. (Reuters)
• Microsoft(MSFT) Defends Its Empire. (BusinessWeek)
• Soros Goes Long as World Bank Shorts Recovery. (Bloomberg)
• Bernanke Flubs Tryout, Still Up for Leading Role. (Bloomberg)
• The Case for Bonds. (Forbes)
• Coal's New Friends. (Forbes)
• A world of Methuselahs. (The Economist)
• China's predicament. (The Economist)
• Chinese consumers key driver of growth. (The Globe and Mail)
• Should RealNetworks(RNWK), an Internet Pioneer, Switch Gears? (The New York Times)
• Worldwide M&A Review: Second Quarter 2009. (Reuters)
• U.S. downturn puts vacation back in vacation home. (Reuters)
• Paul Romer on technology & history. (Infectious Greed)
• Conspicuous consumption and race. (Wharton)

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