When you holiday at the beach, what readings do you bring along? Contrarian Wall Street newsletters, I bet. James Grant is offering a free compilation drawn from Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. I recommend the “Sold to you, Uncle Sam” article (p. 8) about government attempts to combat recession, plus “China channels ‘Monkeybrains’” (p. 19) about China’s worrisome debt holdings.

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