10 Mid-Week PM Reads via @cspenn Google Reader

[shared via @cspenn Google Reader from The Big Picture]

My between speakers at a conference reading material:

• About Those Excess Reserves At the Fed (Jesse’s Café Américain) see also Fed Moves Closer to Action (WSJ)
• Stupid Data Miner Tricks – Quants fooling themselves. The economic indicator in your pants. (Forbes)
• The idea that inflation might be our friend is gaining traction (LA Times)
• Companies Say 3 Million Unfilled Positions in Skill Crisis: Jobs (Bloomberg)
• The rotten heart of finance (Economist)
• Regret, Remorse, Reprieve: Weill Calls for Splitting Up Big Banks (DealBook)
• Calpers Cuts Risk and Finds Reward, for Now (WSJ)
• The lady doth protest too much Geithner ‘deeply offended’ by charges in new book (The Oval)
• U.S. Cities With Bigger Economies Than Entire Countries (WSJ)
• Spot the Socialist (Economist)