Readables

- Revelations about Japan's large political slush fund result in suspiciously little attention from the nation's media.

- The economics of the National Hockey League

- The outgoing UK Secretary of the Treasury has a laugh. "Ha. Ha... no, seriously: the country is broke."

- India is planning $50 billion in road projects

- The shared agenda of Gorbachev and Medvedev

- Revaluation of the Chinese yuan has been put on hold. Blame the Europeans.

- Counterfeit bananas