Readables

- About a week old, but this is one of the best pieces I've read in a while. Follow-up is here.

- The, um, wanker-bankers have conned the Biffo Bunch

- Quantitative easing, explained. The Ben Bernank does not come off well

- Here is a better explanation of QEII. Here is another

- In related news, core inflation falls to record low.