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Europe’s web of debt, illustrated — BBC

S&P makes a bit of an error with a headline about Brazil’s credit rating — Bloomberg

Miners in Australia can earn $200,000 annually — WSJ

The new head of the FDIC “could make Sheila Bair look like a kitty cat” — WSJ

The “do-nothing” economic budget plan that would save us $7.1 trillion — Washington Post

Krugman: let the Supercommittee fail — NYT

Nate Silver on which economic indicators best predict Presidential elections – Five Thirty Eight

Sean Parker’s thinking of Thanksgiving, says the tech “gravy train” is almost over — CNET

Newsweek staffer: “I mean, Regis Philbin is our cover this week” — WWD

One of the worst parts of the euro zone crisis, for me, is watching the televised vindication of that nut Nigel Farage — Zero Hedge

Banks “are devising complex and potentially risky” deals to keep borrowing from the ECB — WSJ

Congress’s 10 favorite stocks, and which members hold the most (it’s mostly Kerry) — Ritholtz

Why the missing MF Global customer money is like a “lost child” — Dealbook

The Nevada AG brings felony charges in a robo-signing case — WSJ

26 reporters arrested in the Wall Street protests and what they do — The Awl

TechCrunch’s CEO is leaving AOL — BI

2.5 stars: Yelp files for a $100 million IPO — Fortune

And the ECB releases an iPhone game, but the whole goal is keeping inflation low. Of course — Reuters Macroscope

Many more great links are available each day from Counterparties.com.

Evans-Pritchard: EU leaders are bypassing democracy to save the Euro — Telegraph

Both parties are reaching for accounting gimmicks as Supercommittee nears failure — WSJ

Federal prosecutions are up, except for bank fraud — NYT Economix

Congress declares pizza a vegetable — AP

Congress is less popular than BP during the oil spill, or worse, Paris Hilton — Washington Post

Your middle class neighborhood is probably disappearing — NYT

“Blink” your small business worries away with Malcolm Gladwell and BofA — Market Watch

We shouldn’t have said Fannie Mae paid Gingrich $300K. It was actually $1.6M — Bloomberg

An audit says that it’s nearly even money the FHA runs out of cash next year — WSJ

Struggling cities are paying more and more to ratings agencies — Bloomberg

Gingrich called Freddie Mac “insane,” was later paid $300K to lobby for them — Bloomberg

70% of the top 1% have been employed by their father’s firm — milescorak

Even Glenn Hubbard is calling for “radical change” — Washington Post

Even as one of their reporters is arrested by the NYPD, the Daily News says “Bravo” to Bloomberg’s eviction of Occupy Wall Street — NYDN

Short sellers are “waiting and watching” for a chance to all make a killing on Groupon — Reuters

And Netflix takes up 32.7% of all internet bandwidth — Mashable

Angela Merkel hints at a fiscal union for the Eurozone — Bloomberg

Meanwhile, her party votes to allow voluntary exits from the Euro — Bloomberg

The United States has youth unemployment in line with Arab Spring countries — Rortybomb

The SF Fed thinks there’s more than a 50% chance of a US recession next year — FRBSF.org

All the key fiscal drags the President will face in the next two years – FT Alphaville

It turns out that Wall Street fleeced municipal governments roughly $50 billion — Businessweek

Banks are trying to recoup $15 to $20 monthly per depositor — NYT

Like a man biting a dog, farmers are buying up foreclosed housing developments — WSJ

What “stock and flow” means for the future of online media — AdAge

Very few places in America have lots of bars and cheap marijuana — Atlantic Cities

And Michael Lewis is still using poop analogies, this time about transatlantic journalism — LAT

Paul Krugman explains the Euro crisis in one sentence — Business Insider

An interesting attack on ECRI’s recession call — Stone Street Advisors

Pretty much everyone at MF Global was fired en masse — Reuters

29% of all US mortgages are underwater — Ritholtz

And the gigantic foreclosure settlement won’t give homeowners very much — Huffington Post

Unemployment for young veterans is 30% and rising — Businessweek

While homelessness for female veterans has increased each of the last six years — LA Times

UK MPs will probably find James Murdoch “ill-informed” but not “mendacious”.  They’ve got it reversed — Guardian

“The euro zone is in a death spiral.” — The Economist

The Fed should buy every single Euro bond owned by a U.S. bank. Now. — Brad DeLong

Oops! S & P accidentally downgraded France, then issued a correction — Bloomberg

In the wake of MF Global, all American futures trading firms will be audited — Dealbook

Study shows that banks that received bailout funds soon took on more risk — Credit Writedowns

Congratulations, Jefferson County: you are now the biggest municipal bankruptcy in American history — Bloomberg

Why Americans won’t do dirty jobs — Businessweek

Ringtones are a $2.1 billion a year business — AllThingsD

Research in Motion will keep developing Flash, even after Adobe has abandoned it — Electronista

Zynga to employees: Surrender your stock or be fired — WSJ

Watch out Jamba, Starbucks is in the juice game now — Reuters

The way we were: a decade of anti-Berlusconi Economist covers — The Economist

All these links and many more are available at Counterparties.com

Some of the links today from Counterparties.com:

Why the ECB couldn’t save Italy even if it wanted to — WSJ

Echoes of pre-crash Japan in China today — Chovanec

The huge Chinese loan-sharking industry has lead to suicides and disappearances — Bloomberg

Some MF Global customers may have to “share cash” — Businessweek

Krugman: The return of secular stagnation — The Conscience of a Liberal

Bruce Bartlett: The Fed has an obligation to do more about unemployment — NYT Economix

Oil companies have ex-military “psy ops” experts fighting anti-fracking “insurgency” — CNBC

Goldman raised its lawsuit allowances thirty-fold — Reuters

Yelp is planning an IPO, at a $1 to $2 billion valuation — WSJ

And Raj Rajaratnam will pay a $92.8 million dollar penalty, or more than five Kardashian weddings’ earnings — Dealbook

World faces subpar growth for the next 14 years, Conference Board says — WSJ

“Italy is at the brink of being unable to afford to borrow in the public markets” — WSJ

SEC is shocked to learn that banks continue to break the law after promising not to — NYT

Wall Street bonuses are set to fall up to 30% — Dealbook

FHA loans for low-income homebuyers are increasingly going to the wealthy — Bloomberg

Michael Lewis on “The King of Human Error” — Vanity Fair

The text of the NYT vs. Huffington Post “Parentlode” lawsuit — Scribd

How Bill Daley and Washington Elites misread America — New York Magazine

Some fresh links available, as always, on Counterparties.com:

“The eurozone decouples from the world” — FT

Namibia’s bonds are now safer than Italy’s — The Globe and Mail

MF Global clients have “zero clarity” about their missing cash — Reuters

NY Fed: The repo market still has “potentially systemic” risks — NY Fed

The wealth gap between young and old Americans is at a record high — Pew Social Trends

22.4% of young male high school graduates are unemployed — WSJ

The most remunerative college majors — WSJ Real Time Economics

Malcolm Gladwell: Steve Jobs was more “tweaker” than inventor — New Yorker

Great headline: “Greenwich lean time” as hedgies ditch CT real estate — NY Post

And Robert DeNiro will be playing Madoff in an HBO film — The Hollywood Reporter

An illustrated guide to “Europe’s insult diplomacy” — Businessweek

“The epistemology of U.S. banks’ European exposure” — FT Alphaville

The G20′s list of banks that are Too Big To Fail — WSJ

MF Global used an old trick to hide its debt — WSJ

MF Global: JPMorgan has our missing $658 million — Bloomberg

1 chart, 32 ways of looking at unemployment — NPR

Apple’s supply-chain secret? Hoarding lasers, like a James Bond villain — Businessweek

And the NY Observer’s Betabeat blog doesn’t understand the difference between pricing and opening for IPOs — Betabeat

Another compelling argument that we are approaching the Italian endgame — FT Alphaville

The Keynesian who 20 years ago saw through the Euro — New Yorker

If Papandreou wins his confidence vote, then he’ll step down. Maybe — Reuters

The US will not implement a Tobin tax, no matter how nicely you ask — WSJ Real Time Economics

After a great deal of confusion yesterday, Brad DeLong now thinks he understands what MF Global was thinking, but that doesn’t mean it was smart — Brad DeLong

US gasoline consumption is down 5% year-over-year, the most since 2008 — The Bonddad Blog

60% of China’s rich want to leave the country — Credit Writedowns

The smartest people in DC are 100% wrong about the economy — Business Insider

Bank of America threatened a Utah woman with foreclosure over a single dollar — Consumerist

Over the last 2 years, 80% of the hottest IPOs later tanked — Businessweek

Morgan says its exposure to Spain is $500 million; a regulator says its $25 billion — Bloomberg

“Faced with two unappetizing choices, Greece seems intent on choosing neither” — New Yorker

Joe Weisenthal thinks this chart explains a lot about Greece — Business Insider

Why were people giving their money to MF Global in the first place? — Brad DeLong

Almost a third of jobless Americans have been out of work more than a year — Pew

15% of all Americans are on food stamps — WSJ Real Time Economics

Do more arts and humanities grads mean that college is oversold? — Marginal Revolution

Inside the transnational organ-selling gangs — Bloomberg

Big brands are just now learning that they can use Facebook for free — WSJ

Groupon spent nearly as much on marketing as Visa — AdAge

And AOL’s traffic is barely higher despite acquiring the Huffington Post — AllThingsD

Just a few of the many links on Counterparties.com today:

“It’s all over. The government is about to collapse,” says one Greek official — Guardian

Tim Duy wonders if the EU deal just collapsed — Tim Duy’s Fed Watch

Hundreds of millions of customer dollars are missing from MF Global — Dealbook

China’s PMI manufacturing index is at its lowest level in almost three years — Bloomberg

Credit Suisse plans to get rid of 1500 more jobs — Bloomberg

New York federal prosecutors are seeking $2.5 billion from Allied Home Mortgage — Reuters

Fannie and Freddie execs will take their bonuses now, please — Politico

Bruce Feld: Racism is alive and well in Silicon Valley (or at least US military installations) — Feld

And Meredith Whitney went as Puss in Boots to her office’s costume party — Dealbook

Here are a few of our links today from Counterparties.com:

The 30 year return on bonds is higher than equities for the first time in 150 years — Bloomberg

Brad DeLong is not a huge fan of the ECB — Project Syndicate

Germany has $78 billion more than thought after discovering an accounting error — Der Spiegel

Bill Gross wonders how one can solve a debt crisis with more debt — PIMCO

Prince Charles has been offered the veto over 12 UK government bills since 2005 — Guardian

The Treasury Department will hold off on selling more of its 77% share of AIG for now — WSJ

Here’s a good, long piece on the changes Jon Corzine made at MF Global — Reuters

And here’s his MF Global employment agreement — SEC

The more important (but less covered) Herman Cain scandal of the day — Journal Sentinel

Together for a year, Newsweek and the Daily Beast are (surprise!) still not profitable — Adweek