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Stocks: The latest Fed bubble – (CNN) “The Federal Reserve has spent the past year cleaning up after a housing bubble it helped create. But along the way it may have pumped up another bubble, this time in stocks.”

The debt crisis cannot be solved with more debt – (Mises.org) When will this sink in with politicians and mainstream? David Saied offers a good overview of the fundamentally flawed approach our leaders are trying.

American graduates finding jobs in China – (NYT) “They are lured by China’s surging economy, the lower cost of living and a chance to bypass some of the dues-paying that is common to first jobs in the United States”.

Wholesaler Inventory Very Lean – (Reuters) “U.S. stocks added to losses after the data and U.S. Treasury prices posted session highs as investors worried businesses were cutting inventories sharply because they remained skeptical about a return in demand.

Ghost of Enron delivers a warning – (Marketwatch) “Yet only seven years after Enron went down in a flaming pile of management hubris and false accounting — taking corporate America’s reputation with it — small investors and savers found themselves again at the mercy of a Wall Street-induced scandal, this time one that would take down the world economy.”

Today’s chart is from EconomPic. It shows the average number of hours worked by employed people. The rest of the post is worth a read. He explores the effect that women entering the workforce en masse in the 1960s and 70s has had on employment statistics:

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