Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week.
NB: ($) denotes subscription site.
Martin Wolf provides an interesting overview of QE, its benefits, and its risks as the Fed gets ready to wind it down.
Article via Financial Times ($)
The Canadians have a solution to get around the American politics of the Keystone Pipeline.
The Economist had a special report laying out how the model of development through industrialization may be broken.
The strong man of Europe, Germany, begins to look weak. Now will Germany hasten to help its neighbors?
Article via Wall Street Journal ($)
When the search for “edge” goes too far – a good long read about the SAC insider trading case. Playing for monthly returns is a very difficult game.
Stock buybacks can be good or buybacks can be bad. Damodaran explains how and why.
Blog Post via Aswath Damodaran