Linkage

• Obama wants to cut Social Security (New Economic Perspectives)
• Ex-Moody’s staff raise alarm over ABS ‘meltdown’ (Financial Times) Yes, asset based securities are ready to bite us in the tuchas again
• There is no “market solution” for ethics (Math Babe)
• Privatizing Lincoln's grave (Hullabaloo) Yes, handing over Lincoln's tomb to a the tender mercies of a for for-profit corporation. ……… Sweet.
• The US media is relentlessly right wing on the NSA leaks (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Countries in the Euro Zone are selling citizenship to combat the effects of austerity (Testosterone Pit)

And in the, "I wish that I had thought of that," department: