Concedes to changes with European regulators.

“Don’t be evil,” said European antitrust regulators, and after a two-year inquiry, Google has reached a settlement with the European Commission over alleged abuses in online search. While it will not have to change its algorithm, Google will have to plainly label results that feature its own products (Google News or Google Plus Local) and also show links from rival search engines. The biggest change will be in travel, where Google’s own products have led to conflicts with companies like Yelp and TripAdvisor.

Read it at The New York Times

New two year low.

Looks like gold may have lost its Midas Touch. On the back of disappointing news out of China (gold’s second-largest buyer), gold continued to fall on Monday—by more than 9 percent. In percentage terms, Monday's decline is gold's biggest in 30 years. The end may be in sight however, as analysts do see the slide stopping in the summer thanks to restocking in India, the world’s largest consumer of gold.

Read it at Wall Street Journal

Growth drops to 7.7 percent.

The future looks dim for a consumer-driven Chinese economy. With a slowing manufacturing sector and weak consumption numbers, China’s economy grew at 7.7 percent—a slowdown that comes during a transition period both in leadership and economic reforms. President Xi Jinping had warned that the days of “ultra-high speed growth” was over.

Read it at Financial Times

Eli Lehrer with a guest post on how one part of the Obama budget will kill jobs, make services more expensive, and possibly start a trade war

Buried on page 187 of President Obama’s 2014 budget lies a $6.2 billion tax hike with potentially disastrous consequences.While the language used to describe the new tax—“disallow the deduction for non-taxed reinsurance premiums paid to foreign affiliates”—will evoke more drowsiness than Tea Party rage, it’s still a problem. The tax will make insurance vastly more expensive, destroy jobs, and, quite possibly, start a trade war.Understanding the tax requires some background.

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A ‘bail-in’ saved Cyprus. But dark days are ahead.

The political elites in Brussels can once again breathe a sigh of relief. Cyprus did not implode and take the euro with it. In many ways, the latest drama in Cyprus followed a familiar pattern: the so-called troika of European leadership (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) flew to a country on Europe’s periphery to rescue its failing banks, that country’s leadership balked, and then eventually caved to Brussels’s demands.

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From Sarah Palin to Paul Ryan and now Greg Walden, why do Republicans keep attacking Obama for trying to save money? Peter Beinart explains this weird phenomenon.

Washington Republicans believe passionately in deficit reduction, except in two circumstances: when they’re in power and when Democrats are.During the George W. Bush years, Dick Cheney famously said that “deficits don’t matter.” And by their actions, many prominent Republicans sent exactly the same message. Between 2001 and 2008, even anti-debt crusaders like Paul Ryan voted for three tax cuts and two wars that, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, will add $6 trillion to the national debt by 2019.

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Wipe that smile off your face. That big tax refund is bad news.

As I write this, April 15 looms. Not for me, mind you—we took our taxes to the accountant weeks ago. But for millions of Americans who will be driving madly to the post office at the last possible minute, dropping their returns in the slot, and hoping a sizable tax refund. Many of you have been looking forward to that refund for weeks, planning all the great stuff you’re going to do with it.This is all wrong. No, not the last-minuteness of it all.

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To deal with your data after death.

Now there’s a DNR for you online. Google has a new tool, the Inactive Account Manager, which allows users to wipe from the system their various accounts (Gmail, Picasa, YouTube, etc.) 3, 6, 9, or 12 months after they become inactive. The debate over what to do with a user’s accounts after death has picked up lately, with Facebook creating the option to memorialize Facebook pages, and some states passing laws about use of email data after death.

Read it at The Washington Post

Payroll tax bites consumers.

Stock investors are bullish, but American consumers pulled in their horns in March. The Census Bureau reported that retail sales fell 0.4 percent from February to March. While lower spending at gas stations—thanks to lower oil prices and more fuel-efficient cars—accounted for more than half the March decline, sales generally fell at stores. Despite continued jobs growth, the higher payroll tax seems to be reducing Americans’ capacity to shop.

Read it at Reuters