Economics and Investing:

I see bubbles bursting everywhere: Top academic Vikram Mansharaman

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Reader D.S. mentioned this troubling news, over at Forbes
How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters Like Dave Ramsey

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Items from Professor Preponomics:

US News

Fed Proposes New Limits on Big Banks’ Exposure to Each Other (Reuters)

Jobs Report Reveals Lingering Long-Term Unemployment (Washington Examiner)

GAO Study Documents Massive Fraud Likely in Obamacare Exchanges (Contra Corner)

International News

Debt
“Explosion” Awaits Unless Policymakers Defuse Demographic Time Bomb, Warns IMF Chief
(The Telegraph)

EU’s Tusk Warnes Illegal Economic Migrants: Do Not Come Here (BBC News)

Brazilian
Economy’s Steep Slide Raises Specter of Depression
(Reuters)

Personal Economics and Household Finance

Facebook Quizzes Could Make You Vulnerable to Hackers (Clark Howard) Excerpt: “…the quizzes could be a dangerous link that could either take data directly from your Facebook account or have you unknowingly download malware to your PC.”

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