Some Good Reading Links to Start Your Week

With the economy and markets taking so much of the press, perhaps unemployment has become less of a concern for the current administration?

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Trading Links:

• Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks. (NYTimes)
• Kass: Blame the Quants and High Frequency Traders. (Barrons) 
• Putin Says U.S. is a Parasite on the Global Economy. (Reuters)
• Timeline of Fiscal Catalysts for the 2^nd-Half Of 2011 from Golman Sachs. (ZH)
• The iPad Just Ate 11% Of The PC Market.  Welcome to a Post-PC World? (SFGate)
  It would be the 4th-biggest computer brand in the world, after HP, Dell, & Lenovo.

Lighter Links:

• The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail.   (BusinessInsider)
• The Blueprint for the Perfect Blog Post. (Infographic) (B2C)
• Forgetting: New Research Shows That We Control What We Remember  (Science)
• Dear Yankee: Eight things you ought to know about Rick Perry.  (TexasMonthly)
• Eating the Dollar's Lunch: The Price of a Big Mac Is Now $17.19 in Zurich. (Zerohedge)