Felix Salmon

New rules may force Euro banks to borrow from their own governments — Bloomberg

These banks have largely bought hedges from other struggling Euro banks — WSJ (paywall)

The Merkelization of Europe, and why it’s a problem  — Foreign Policy

From Friday, 8 (still relevant) unanswered questions for Europe — WSJ Marketbeat

Mikhail Prokhorov: Russian democratic savior or oversized Putin puppet? — Reuters

11 things Brad DeLong’s gotten really wrong in his career — DeLong

Ocwen, a large mortgage servicer, now employs 16 psychologists — WSJ

LinkedIn’s P/E is roughly 300 — Fortune

And House GOP whip Eric Cantor is blocking a (Spencer Bachus-sponsored!) insider trading bill — CNBC

Europe’s banks need to raise an extra $153 billion — Bloomberg

Warren Buffett is buying a $2 billion solar plant in California — Businessweek

While George Soros bought the same amount in MF Global’s European bonds — WSJ (paywall)

NPR couldn’t find a millionaire who thinks the “millionaire’s surtax” affects hiring — NPR

AOL might be clipping Patch — AdAge

And Norway faces a massive butter shortage — Vancouver Sun/Reuters

In this Counterparties, almost every link will have something to do with Europe:

Citigroup reckons Europe’s headed for a six quarter recession — FT Alphaville

Ireland’s central bank wants more printing presses in the event of a Euro collapse — WSJ

ING makes some charts predicting post-Euro economies — FT Alphaville

Financial stability is a pointless goal, “resiliency and resolution” is better — London Banker

Eurobonds could increase the risk of joint defaults — VoxEU

Ezra Klein: The Euro crisis is really about growth, not debt — Bloomberg

Funny: The shockingly short lifespan of today’s European treaty rumor — WSJ Marketbeat

The AP gets inside a secret CIA prison in Romania — Associated Press

Next week should have the most IPOs in the last four years — Renaissance Capital

And this Dutch wheelchair athlete was in a crash, is miraculously no longer disabled — Reuters

Here’s the leaked report from European Council President Van Rompuy  — FT

Herman Achille Van Rompuy has been said to have the “charisma of a damp rag” — Reuters

Greek deposits continue to fall – Spiegel

These charts show that it’s hard for the US to decouple its economy from Europe — Tim Duy

These charts show that the ECB might have to start printing money — VoxEU

And these charts show who’s dropping out of the US labor force — Modeled Behavior

The 30-year-old MF Global bankruptcy “boy wonder” who despises Corzine — Fortune

A well-reported portrait of what it’s like to be dragged into poverty — HuffPo

And the Gingrich campaign still has a lot of debt, half of it for private jets — WaPo

Uh-oh: construction’s grinding to a halt in Chinese “ghost towns” — WSJ

I’m a big fan of Paul Krugman’s headline pun — NYT

Corzine suggested he’d quit if board members didn’t trust his MF Global Euro bet — WSJ

After promising not to, Wall Street firms have re-violated fraud laws at least 51 times — NYT

Be afraid of a run on the shadow banking system — WSJ

This is grisly: for-profit hospices are paying referral fees for dying patients — Bloomberg

Romney spent $100,000 in state money to erase his gubernatorial record — Reuters

A list of historical figures Newt Gingrich has compared himself to — The Atlantic Wire

Yahoo prepares to battle a brain drain — WSJ

Sorry, “international waters” is not itself a business model — Atlantic Cities

Why does the police department of Tampa, Florida need a tank? — The Daily

Mario unveils a new austerity budget to rescue the princess save Italy’s credit rating — NYT

But Stiglitz argues that cutbacks aren’t what the euro zone needs — Project Syndicate

And despite Merkozy’s deal, S&P could downgrade 15 euro nations — Bloomberg

Look what’s driving public debt in the major European economies — Touchstone

The worldwide decline of “safe” assets — FT Alphaville

Goldman: home prices will drop another 2.5% before bottoming out — FT Alphaville

Bank deposits are up, but it’s “hot money” — WSJ

The Connecticut town where one-third of the population is over 60 — NYT

And Google and Facebook might already receive half of global digital ad spending — AllThingsD

Soros: The global financial system is in a “self-reinforcing process of disintegration” — WSJ

US economy adds 120,000 jobs, unemployment rate falls to 8.6% — BLS

Brad Plumer: Why Americans are leaving the labor force in large numbers — Washington Post

Rogoff: 5 big problems with capitalism as we know it — Project Syndicate

Shiller: The best advice I ever got is to ignore celebrities — Fortune

Mentioning a company on CNBC raises its stock price (pdf) — UC Berkeley

90% of bachelor’s degree recipients graduate with less than $40,000 in debt — NYT Economix

And hedge funds are trailing the market to the tune of about 6% this year — The Economist

The Euro debt crisis in 8 graphs — Washington Post

Mario Draghi: Time for the “Euro area design” to adapt — ECB

Why unlimited monetization and eurobonds are right around the corner — Credit Writedowns

Here’s the full Massachusetts AG’s foreclosure practices lawsuit — Mass.gov

Foreclosures are at an all-time high, but mortgage delinquencies are down — LPS

“The hacking scandal could be the best thing that ever happened to News Corp shareholders” — Bloomberg

Om Malik thinks Yahoo’s like “salmon farmed on carcinogens” — GigaOm

And Tom Glocer, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss, is out — Reuters

Why France may now be the biggest obstacle to ending the Euro crisis — WSJ

Understanding Corzine’s bet on Europe — DeLong

To fix bank executive compensation, tie it to CDS spreads — Dealbreaker

Brad DeLong (again): We have a moral obligation to tax the rich at the peak of the Laffer Curve — Project Syndicate

Why is Schwarzman supporting Romney? Bain Capital made him a lot of money — Bloomberg

In a fit of billionaire whimsy, Warren Buffett buys his hometown newspaper — Reuters

Silver Lake thinks $16.60 a share is a good price for a chunk of Yahoo — Bloomberg

Some of today’s many stories from Counterparties.com. Now with extra underlinks! Check it out.

“War games” – How companies are already contingency planning for a Euro breakup — Reuters

Ex-NOTW editor: “You have to be cleverer than the criminals” — Guardian

S&P cuts ratings for all “Big Six” banks — WSJ Marketbeat

RIM is apparently willing to have its customers use better phones made by competitors — WSJ

$200 million from MF Global’s customers turns up at British JP Morgan Chase — Dealbook

George Packer paints a great portrait of one occupier of Wall Street — New Yorker

John Heilemann: Is 2012 the same as 1968? — New York

Keith Gessen writes about his arrest in New York City — New Yorker

Thomas H. Lee is looking at buying out Yahoo’s US business — Reuters

And the Little Printer That Couldn’t Do Anything – BergCloud

Is it cheaper for Germany to bail out EU countries rather than leave the euro? — Washington Post

Weisenthal and Platt question the importance of debt-to-GDP ratios. It’s possible they didn’t read all of This Time Is Different — Business Insider

James Surowiecki argues that Italy and Spain are still saveable — The New Yorker

While Wolfgang Munchau says the euro zone could be only days from collapse — DeLong

Daniel Kahneman: “Emergent weirdness is a good bet” — Freakonomics

“Fitch slams US indecisiveness, delays AAA rating decision” — FT Alphaville

Krugman gleefully quotes Greenspan getting everything wrong in 2005 — NYT

3 Connecticut Gold Coast money managers win $254 million from the lottery — Greenwich Time

The Silicon Valley startup that built the “matrix” behind the War on Terror — BusinessWeek

And a long, controversial, intriguing piece on the mysteries of l’affaire DSK — NYRB

A really good overview on Angela Merkel saying “nein” to euro bonds — Spiegel

John Muellbauer: The solution to Europe’s crisis? Conditional euro bonds — Vox EU

European banks still have trillions of dollars of bad loans they’re unable to sell — IFRE

Is Canada’s current housing market frothier than pre-crash America? — The Economist

Why MF Global’s auditors could rubber stamp risk at Goldman, JP Morgan — Bloomberg

The AT&T / T-Mobile deal looks pretty unlikely to be approved — NYT

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin — Wired

And Dan Primack argues that the internet bubble 2.0 may not have burst yet — Fortune

Izzy Kaminska has an intriguing post on what happened with today’s bund auction — FT Alphaville

European banks are avoiding regulations with “false deleveraging” — Bloomberg

Hungary has asked for a “precautionary credit” from the IMF — Telegraph

The “darker side” of US GDP has some bad news for us — WSJ Real Time Economics

America faces two big “fiscal cliffs” in the next 14 months — The Economist Free Exchange

The big rumored mortgage settlement might not include California — Reuters

“How to steal money from Manhattan, with Columbia’s pro-biz think thank” — The Awl

And Tyler Cowen has a great idea for how to handle the NBA strike — Marginal Revolution

Many more links are available at Counterparties.com. Have a great Thanksgiving, if you’re in a country where that’s done.

Izzy Kaminska cleverly argues that Swiss bonds are now Giffen goods — FT Alphaville

“France isn’t trading like a AAA” — Bloomberg

Latvia and other European periphery countries are looking like coal mine canaries — FT

A European bank flaps it wings, a loan is denied in Australia — WSJ

Predicting the depressing future of economic policy decisions — Credit Writedowns

8 reasons extending unemployment benefits will boost the economy — Rortybomb

How “long-term unemployed” became synonymous with “unwanted” — National Journal

Problem with thinly traded companies: “eventually they’re no longer thinly traded” — Dealbook

And Errol Morris has a great little documentary about the “umbrella man” and JFK’s death — NYT

Some fresh links selected today from Counterparties.com:

Credit Suisse: The “last days” of the Euro are here — FT Alphaville

Goldman: “SOVEREIGN RISK SPREADING LIKE A WILDFIRE” — BI

FMCN’s stock dropped 40% on this Muddy Waters report calling them lying liars — Zero Hedge

MF Global trustee: Actually, we think we’re missing $1.2 billion — Market Watch

“Mr. Nocera – You have destroyed everything and everyone related to Steven J. Baum PC” — Dealbook

A really big visualization of money — xkcd

Fresh off its pension overhaul, Rhode Island experiments with “work sharing” — WSJ

The continuing hunt for Anyone But Romney, illustrated graphically — National Post

And The Atlantic is now making more from digital than print advertising — NYT