Assorted links
2. New story on high-frequency trading.
3. 2010 book preview; oddly not one of them excites me except maybe the Per Petterson.
4. The music industry of the future?
5. "Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully–for the next day or the year ahead–by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls." More here.
6. Why the Eurozone has a tough decade to come.
7. Ezra Klein is on Colbert tonight, early part of the show. Today his WP blog is broken so he can't announce it.