World's best blog Borev did what I was too lazy to do and compiled South American reaction to the Obama election win. My fave quote was Lula's and I'm often amazed how you guys up there think Star Wars is the font of all wisdom. Talk about cart-before-horse........Mexico is going through a bizarre serial outbreak of escaped wild animals. Mex Files tells all (and neatly quotes W.B. Yeats, too).
Bananama Republic does a great job in exposing extreme right wing KKK members in Panama who are getting rich by duping locals into MLM schemes. Seriously good investigative work by Bananama, as its exposé got the President of the MLM branch to resign once he found out the evil and criminal background of the dude he was sponsoring.
Jurgen Schuldt looks at the revival of Marx (no, not Groucho) and notes that it's not the first time this has happened....and it always seems to coincide with financial crises, too. Now why would that be......?
Biiwii has been getting into macroindicators recently. As this is the stuff I wonk out on this humble corner of cyberspace heartily approves. Here's a post on LIBOR which explains why CNBC isn't talking about it any more...not dramatic enough now, y'see.