Readings: $1 Gas, Panic, Packaged Meat, etc.

Some links to items of interest:

• Should the 401k Be Killed? (TIME)
• How much land does a person need? (Ask Metafilter)
• Gulf Oil CEO says gas could hit $1 next year (The Patriot Ledger)
• Fidelity flips switch turning itself to news site (Fidelity)
• Beyond Muscles: Unexplored Parts of Men’s Body Image (Journal of Health Psychology)
• Profiles in Panic: How Wall Street-ers are dealing with the crisis (Vanity Fair)
• Packaged Meat Replaces Fresh Cuts (Nielsen Wire)
• NPD Now Offers Store Level Point-of-Sale Information from Nine Major Auto Parts Retailers (NPD)
• A perfect storm for Chinese deflation (Morgan Stanley)
• China is starting to sound like a normal creditor country (Setser)
• Financial Industry Layoffs Top 150,000 Since September (Wall Street & Technology)
• Paul Krugman is worrying himself sick about next year (NYT)
• The auto downturn is even more serious than you think (Econbrowser)
• Snow removal is a better business than you think it is (JSOnline)