Hot Links: Long Live the Cliff

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What I'm reading this morning:

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

CONGRESS PASSES FISCAL CLIFF TAX MEASURE (all eyez on February debt ceiling super-cliff now…)  (WaPo)

The Cliff is Dead, Long Live the Cliff: Futures Soar  (ZeroHedge)

Economist Tyler Cowen’s 14 biggest stories to watch in 2013.  (MarginalRevolution)

Alex Tarhini on the markets during the post-election cycle year.  (AllStarCharts)

The XLY vs XLP risk appetite indicator.  (AndrewThrasher)

Corporate welfare queens come out of the Cliff deal just fine, eight pork dumplings they may get here:  (NakedCapitalism)

A round up of new funds in registration this January.  (MutualFundObserver)

And here’s a roundup of new ETFs, ETFs that are dying and the new stuff in registration.  (ETFdb)

Avis buys Zipcar for half a bil this morning.  (DealBook)

10 overly simple investing guidelines that help remove human error to some degree.  (TBP)

Ackman, Herbalife and the trouble with “celebrity short-sellers.”  (DealBook)

The Fly girds himself for a fresh start today.  (iBankCoin)

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