1 Announcing the Apple iProduct
2 Is the US Reaching a Strategic Default Tipping Point? Yves Smith: "The longer the real estate bust continues, the more deeply underwater borrowers will think hard about the costs of upholding their side of a deal"
3 Greece rattled by 'hidden debt' controversy. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: "A commission of experts tells the country's parliament it has uncovered €40bn of hidden debts"
4 Our Incredible Shrinking Democracy. Robert Reich: "Even if the economic emergency justified such secrecy – and it’s hard to see exactly why it would – the emergency is over, and yet closed-door decision making continues"