Links for 2009-07-25

You might find these interesting:

• Barry Ritholtz and Robert Reich believe investors should not be pleased with recent positive corporate earnings surprises.
• Hal Varian reports that Google Trends predicts further reductions ahead in new claims for unemployment insurance.
• Felix Salmon [1],
  [2] describes how Larry Summers lost a billion dollars for Harvard.
• ExxonMobil is investing big bucks in some radical new tools for controlling carbon emissions.
• Lucian Bebchuk worries that the proposed Goldman Sachs compensations represent a return to a dangerously flawed incentive structure.
• Dave Altig has a very interesting graph showing just how pessimistic consensus estimates are about this economic recovery.
• And here’s one of the reasons I always try to find something that doesn’t come from AP as a source any time I want to link to something in the news.

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