Reclining plane seats, dangerous cosmetic ingredients, lots about the Chinese credit crunch, the demise of the American dream, and other remarkable stories from the web..

• BBC News – Peter Day: A decade of not reclining in flight
• BOJ Appears United in Bold Policy But Divided Over Inflation – Real Time Economics – WSJ
• 8 Cosmetics Ingredients Banned In Europe, But Not In America – Business Insider
• How Long Can You Survive Without Sleep? – Business Insider
• Americans Have Bad Taste Movies?
• China Slowdown Now a Clear & Present Danger | Daily Ticker – Yahoo! Finance
• Did Bernanke Just Kill the Housing Recovery? | Daily Ticker – Yahoo! Finance
• Do Markets Fear Central Banks’ Grip Is Slipping? | Michael Santoli – Yahoo! Finance
• “The Political History of American Inequality” « naked capitalism
• The scary reality of China’s debt crisis – Quartz
• RIP, American Dream? Why It’s So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today – Matthew O’Brien – The Atlantic
• How Shareholders Are Ruining American Business – Justin Fox – The Atlantic