Mid-Week Reads…

Linked-In, The Most Expensive Stock in America and that was pre 90% jump (Smart Money) Rating Agencies Face Crackdown (Dealbook) Earthquake and Aftermath Push Japan Into a Recession (NYT) Collateral Damage: the True Cost of a U.S. Default (Barron’s) Ten High-Conviction Buys from Our Ultimate Stock-Pickers (Morningstar) Against the ‘strong dollar.’ And the ‘weak dollar.’ (Washington Post) Some Simple Deficit Reduction Arithmetic (The Street Light) Hedge Farm! The Doomsday Food Price Scenario Turning Hedgies into Survivalists (New York Observer) Foreign Buyers Getting Firesale Prices on U.S. Housing (Real Time Economics) Soda Maker Company Reaches An All-Time High The anatomy of a short … Read more