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Rogoff: There’s an 80% chance Greece leaves the Euro in the next 10 years — Bloomberg

How Berlusconi and Draghi will determine Italy’s future — Economist

Erste’s “possibly the first bank earnings release in history to tout a complete retreat from the CDS market” — Alphaville

“Ms. Rand, Meet Singapore. Mr. Hayek, Meet Norway” — BusinessWeek

LSE regrets its involvement with Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi — Reuters

8 months of testing convinces JPMorgan that debit card fees are a bad idea — WSJ

WNYC’s The Takeaway has fired our favorite Occupy Wall Street protestor — Gawker

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Merkel raised the specter of European war, won a key EU rescue fund Bundestag vote — Telegraph

The big hole in the EU rescue plan: economic growth — BBC

“The Atlas of Economic Complexity” boils down to: know how to make things, stay relatively poor — WSJ Real Time Economics

Six things we’ve actually learned from three years of financial crisis — The New Yorker

“The Corporate Governance of Benedictine Abbeys” — JSTOR

The other shoe finally drops for Raj Gupta — DealBook

The SEC’s yardstick seems to be: “Who wrote the stupidest email?” — ProPublica

Ruth Madoff says she and Bernie attempted suicide — CBS News

BofA’s Moynihan: “You ought to think a little about that before you start yelling us.” Oh snap — Bloomberg

Elizabeth Warren says she “created much of the intellectual foundation” for Occupy Wall Street — The Daily Beast

And Gawker takes the high-road with a sketchy marketer looking to pay for Google-boosting links — Gawker

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The IMF is considering getting involved with the EU’s bailout investment vehicle — Reuters

Treasury may soon offer floating-rate bonds — Bloomberg

This chart will be handy in the event the supercommittee fails — Washington Post WonkBlog

Could this tweak to CEO pay have prevented the financial crisis? — The Economist

US consumer confidence is at recessionary levels, whether we’re in one or not — FT Alphaville

A very smart profile of Mitt Romney, focusing on his time at Bain — New York

And a giant Legoman has washed ashore in Florida. No word on what was being explained — BoingBoing

Most Greek bailout money has gone to pay bondholders — The Washington Post

The EFSF could become more or less an insurance company — The New Yorker

“If you can show correlation [of greater than zero] then you can buy sovereign CDS” — IFR

Roubini: European policy makers are “hell bent to commit growth harakiri” — CNBC

Sarko to Cameron: “You have lost a good opportunity to shut up.” — The Guardian

The moral case for NGDP targeting — Interfluidity

Already lean US manufacturers could cut further — WSJ

Rhode Island: tiny state, huge debt problem — NYT

Parking passes are an alternative asset class in Connecticut’s Gold Coast — WSJ

Who’s ready for six days of EU debt bickering? — Bloomberg

German newspapers: not such big fans of a leveraged EFSF — Der Spiegel

France could definitely lose its S&P AAA rating. Welcome to the club — Bloomberg

Gordon Brown’s plan to fix the EU. Because he’s exactly who we want in a crisis — Reuters

The Fed might once again buy those mortgage-backed securities no one wants — WSJ

Physicists graph 1300 “super-connected” companies that dominate the world — NewScientist

Steven Schwarzman gives a surprisingly funny speech — Dealbook

A glorious, very very long Bess Levin headline — Dealbreaker

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Germany and France still can’t agree on how to leverage the EFSF — Reuters

The EU considers issuing a temporary ban of sovereign credit ratings — WSJ

Don’t expect a repeat of America’s six-year “productivity miracle” — Bloomberg

A new bill would throw in a visa with every expensive American home sold to a foreigner in an all-cash sale — WSJ

Wall Street posts its worst quarter since 2008 — Bloomberg

Millionaires and billionaires control nearly 40% of global wealth — WSJ The Wealth Report

The NYT paywall seems to be working — Mashable

“are we screwed” — Paul Kedrosky

Debt is “like a drug” in Europe’s second-most indebted nation — Der Spiegel

The housing crisis has changed some young people’s attitudes towards homeownership — WSJ Real Time Economics

Median pay is back to ’99 levels — Reuters

Orszag: Labor’s value is shrinking and there’s not much we can do about it — Bloomberg

David Einhorn has some ideas about the price of coffee — WSJ

News Corp execs reportedly knew about the WSJ Europe circ scam for almost a year — Bloomberg

The Economist gives in to Apple’s app terms — paidContent

And Groupon will IPO next week — Reuters

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Some of the best links from Counterparties.com:

The S & P downgrades twenty-four Italian firms — Reuters

Not to be outdone, Moody’s cuts Spanish sovereign ratings two notches — Reuters

Bernanke: We may use monetary policy for “financial stability.” Or maybe not — Federal Reserve

Only 1 in 7 US workers are normal weight with no chronic health problems — WSJ

Alabama scares away its migrant farmworkers, has trouble harvesting with only fat, unhealthy US citizens — AP

Goldman reports only its second-ever quarterly loss since going public — Business Wire

BofA turns a profit, thanks to asset sales and wonky accounting — Bloomberg

New York has the most super-rich people, though San Francisco also has a lot — WSJ

The brave analyst who dared to downgrade Apple — WSJ

Robots have learned how to play ping pong – yet still cannot love — Youtube

How Groupon’s auditors and underwriters got it so very wrong — Dealbook

Steve Jobs offered nine figures for Dropbox, and was turned down — Forbes

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Schauble admits that banks will take bigger losses on Greek loans — Guardian

Another German admits the obvious: the EU’s crisis will last into next year — Bloomberg

Citi’s accounting adjustment hides some “truly terrible trading figures” — FT Alphaville

Wells Fargo revenue is down, earnings are up, amidst an i-banking “bust” — Dealbook

CalPERS has lost $78 million on vineyard investments — Sacramento Bee

Enron’s former president is a billionaire — WSJ Deal Journal

America’s biggest growth industry: declinism — Reuters

Apple sold 4 million iPhone 4Ss in three days, the highest sales for a phone ever — AppleInsider

Obama will make anti-Wall Street anger a “central tenet” of his campaign — The Washington Post

Would you like to see a video of Herman Cain singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” with lyrics about pizza? Of course you would — The Daily Beast

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Greece’s bondholders are preparing for some pain — Bloomberg

The S&P cut Spain’s credit rating — Reuters

Credit Suisse will reportedly close its commercial-mortgage-backed securities desk — WSJ

The US labor market is becoming less dynamic — FT Alphaville

America might not enter a recession, because the economy’s already so weak — Washington Post

State and local pension shortfalls total $4.4 trillion — State Budget Solutions

Pepsico has dreams of becoming a “global dairy powerhouse” — WSJ

Spotify already has more than 250,000 US users – Reuters

More than two-thirds of big EU banks would fail revised stress tests — Bloomberg

The Euro voting process explained — The Reformed Broker

Loan sharking in China amounts to 10% of its GDP — NYT

What high-yield bond spreads are telling us — Credit Writedowns

Another explanation for late-day market volatility: FT articles — FT Alphaville

Dimon: “All things considered” our Q3 earnings were “reasonable” — Reuters

Let’s revisit the perverse accounting where banks record bond losses as gains — Bloomberg

Economists predict US median incomes won’t bounce back until 2021 — WSJ

Raj will be spending up to the next eleven years in the pokey — Dealbook

Have start-ups seen funding dry up? — TechCrunch

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Just a few of our favorite story links today on Counterparties.com

People don’t really trust banks right now — Pro Publica

UK unemployment is at a 17-year high — BBC

Pennsylvania capital city Harrisburg files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy — Bloomberg

A Teach For America for startups in struggling cities — NYT You’re the Boss Blog

Economic policy as culture war – The Economist

41% of WSJ Europe’s circulation was completely bogus; the publisher has resigned — Guardian

Groupon and Zynga’s accounting crises are self-induced — Dealbook

Siri on the iPhone 4S is a “life changer” — Wired

EU bank stress tests will be getting a bit more stressful — Reuters

A bond market indicator suggests a 60% chance of another recession — Bloomberg

The Super Committee has six weeks left to cut $1.2 trillion; it now meets in private — NYT

Unemployment benefits for six million looks dicey next year without a new jobs bill — CNNMoney

Only 10 people work at an institute Rick Perry says created 12,000 jobs — WSJ

Investment banks are doing badly, while some retail banks are up — Bloomberg

Nouriel Roubini’s research firm is for sale, claims 40% revenue growth in 2013 — CNBC

Are ETFs responsible for all the late-day selloffs and rallies we’ve been seeing? — Dealbook

Elizabeth Warren’s great sin: “she knew what she was talking about” — Vanity Fair

Please stop sending t-shirts to Haiti — Foreign Policy

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The mystery of US banks’ huge second lien mortgage problem — FT Alphaville

Facing a recovery with little investment, innovation, or business growth — NYT

Paulson’s gold fund is down 16.4% in September alone — WSJ

Short-selling is at its highest rate in five years, despite the very low equity valuations — Bloomberg

Some at pension funds admit that their return assumptions might be a bit unrealistic — WSJ

The debt ceiling standoff might have had the highest policy uncertainty in the last 25 years — Modeled Behavior

Here’s Nobel economics laureate Chris Sims’s web page — Princeton

Tyler Cowen on the other Nobel laureate, NYU’s Tom Sargent — Marginal Revolution

How Tom Sargent was lured to NYU nine years ago — NYT Magazine

Groupon’s being “transparent about our lack of transparency” — Groupon Blog

Apple has sold more than one million iPhones 4S in one day — AllThingsD

“I’m the only working class person you’ll see on Sunday news… maybe ever” — NY Observer

And an Italian Cabinet member thinks market volatility could be the result of stock traders’ cocaine use — Businessweek

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The ECB has picked a really bad time to have an existential crisis — Washington Post

Canadian job growth is surging; U.S. job growth: not so much — Business Insider

Here’s why they’re doing so well — Reuters Canada

Three simple policy steps to restore “macroeconomic resilience” — Macro Resilience

Nassim Taleb is a big believer in his own “influence as an intellectual” — Bloomberg

The leaked Volcker Rule memo — American Banker

Lehman sues Goldman over the collapse of a Virginia real estate deal — WSJ

Companies that spend a lot on lobbying outperform the S&P 500 by 11% — The Economist

British Energy Minister Chris Huhne made a “marginal” (if Machiavellian) Twitter error — BBC