04/22 Links
4:54 pm - April 22, 2012
Links roundup for Sunday, April 22nd (below the jump).
04-22 Sunday
- CPI Conspiracy Theories Persist Even With Broad Checks – Bloomberg
- French Election Results – Business Insider
- Francois Hollande ‘beats Nicolas Sarkozy’ in presidential election first round
- Hugo Chavez’s weeklong silence spurs uncertainty
- Fears Rise That Economic Recovery May Falter in the Spring
- Economic Signals Stir Worries – WSJ.com
- Corporate profits bolster equity bulls – FT.com
- 3 Big Market-Moving Events That Are Coming In The Week Ahead
- Israel’s Key Energy Provider, Egypt, Cuts Off All Natural Gas Supplies
- Russia to Embrace Energy Partners – WSJ.com
- Not Exactly a Miracle, but U.S. Debt Levels Are Falling – Floyd Norris
- Big Companies Collecting State Taxes From Workers And Keeping The Money
- Dutch Austerity Talks Fail as Geithner Prods Europe – NYTimes.com
- Netherlands political crisis casts cloud on euro zone | Reuters
- Dutch Talks Collapse, Imperiling Cuts – WSJ.com
- ECB deaf to call for more action to help euro zone | Reuters
- IMF Nearly Doubles Its War Chest for Crisis – WSJ.com
- Europe Urged to Quell Crisis as IMF Wins $430 Bln Boost – Bloomberg
- George Soros and the Bundesbank’s Patriotic Putsch – Telegraph Blogs
- Germany: the miraculous machine – FT.com
- Global crisis not over, China reforms to go on: Wen | Reuters
- Car makers gear up for a tougher China market | Reuters
- At Wal-Mart in Mexico, a Bribe Inquiry Silenced – NYTimes.com
- Spain Urges Nations to Sanction Argentina – WSJ.com
- Argentina’s YPF cuts computer links with Repsol | Reuters
- Hedge-Fund Assets Rise to Record Level – WSJ.com
- Hedge-fund ads are a game-changer – Chuck Jaffe – MarketWatch
- How to join the crowd funding craze – MarketWatch
- The SEC: Outmanned, Outgunned, and On a Roll – Businessweek
- Frequent SEC exemptions let companies skirt rules – The Washington Post
- The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret
- Drone Use Takes Off on the Home Front – WSJ.com
- Pentagon releases results of 13,000-mph test flight over Pacific
- Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution | The Economist
- G.E. Profit Beats Expectations – NYTimes.com
- US Airways CEO Talks Up Merger With American Airlines – WSJ.com
- Pressure Mounts at Chesapeake – WSJ.com
- Chesapeake discloses loans after Reuters report | Reuters
- Why Lobbyists Dodge Calls From Congressmen : Planet Money : NPR
- Hatch Forced Into Republican Primary With Utah State Senator
- Charles Colson, Watergate Figure Who Turned to God, Dies at 80
- An Uprising Against Piggish CEO Pay, At Last – Forbes
- Let’s Be Blunt: It’s Time to End the Drug War – Forbes
- The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
- For LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, Relationships Rule the World
- Karma Crash: Sex and the fall of an All-American Yogi
- Once Reviled, Hedge-Fund Manager Rebounds – WSJ.com
- Who Was Casanova? | Travel | Smithsonian Magazine
- Manhattan – The City of Sky-High Rent – NYTimes.com
- Living near good schools will cost an extra $200K – Economy
- What’s Eating the NYPD?
- China Passengers Storm Airport Tarmac After 15-Hour Delay – Bloomberg
- Plane Crash Kills 127 People Near Pakistan’s Capital – Bloomberg
- How to survive a plane crash
- How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain – NYTimes.com
- It’s Time to Upgrade Your Biological Software | Think Tank | Big Think
- Can You Make Yourself Smarter? – NYTimes.com
- How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death – NYTimes.com
- White Sox Pitcher Phil Humber Throws Perfect Game – WSJ.com
- Insanely Expensive Gadgets for the Elite 1 Percent | Gadget Lab
- 11 Early Scathing Reviews of Works Now Considered Masterpieces