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10 Tuesday AM Reads

May 21, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Kudlow: Has Bernanke Gotten the Story Right? (National Review)
• Are Market Valuations too High? (Turnkey Analyst) see also Equity Risk Premiums (ERP) and Stocks: Bullish or Bearish Indicator (Musings on Markets)
• As rich gain optimism, lawmakers lose economic urgency (Washington Post)
• Japan’s New Optimism Has Name: Abenomics (NYT) see also Fed Will Fuel Dollar Rally With More Confidence (Moneybeat)
• On Whose Research is the Case for Austerity Mistakenly Based? (Jeff Frankels Blog)
• Wall Street’s Giants Try ‘Flow Monster’ Formula (WSJ)
• The One-Person Product (Marco) see also A better, brighter Flickr (flickr)
• How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional (ProPublica)
• How to buy happiness (Los Angeles Times)
• 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest (Atlantic)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Monday PM Reads

May 20, 2013 3:30 pm / Leave a Comment /

My afternoon train reading:

• Boom or Bubble? (The New Yorker) but see Is This the Best Time for Investors? Don’t Bet On It. (WSJ)
• How Benjamin Graham Revolutionized Shareholder Activism (Echoes)
• Dear NYSE: Canceling Trades Destroys The Integrity of The Market (Kid Dynamite’s World)
• Telling the Truth on Fees, Warts and All (NYT) see also Making your financial adviser measure up (MarketWatch)
• Gross to Buffett Omens Disregarded as Sales Soar (Bloomberg)
• What’s Holding Back Hiring? (Real Time Economics)
• Wall Street Deregulation Advances Despite Warnings Vote Could ‘Haunt’ Congress (HuffPo)
• How much? Samsung swipes 95% of Android profits (Digital Trends)
• Tesla’s fight with America’s car dealers (CNN Money)
• 12 reasons X-Prize billionaires are cheapskates (MarketWatch)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Sunday Reads

May 19, 2013 7:00 am / Leave a Comment /

Good Sunday morning. Here are some reads that surfaced since the market closed Friday you may find worthwhile:

• in which Downtown Josh Brown destroys the 1999 comparison (TRB)
• Libor in a barrel: Oil markets fall under the suspicion of price-fixing on a global scale  (Economist)
• My Two (Per)cents: How Are American Workers Dealing with the Payroll Tax Hike? (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
• The end of QE? (FT Alphaville)

• How Nonprofits Became Tax-Exempt (Echoes)

• The Facebook IPO, One Year Later (WSJ)

• Be a Smart Investment News Consumer (Learn Bonds)
• ‘Star Trek’s’ Damon Lindelof on Brad Pitt, Having Power as a Writer and His Agony Over ‘Lost’ (Hollywood Reporter)
• GAME OVER: Morgan Stanley Publishes Brilliant Note About GDP, Investing, And Why Bill Gross Is Wrong About Stocks (Business Insider)
• GE gets back to basics (Fortune)
• Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special (Scientific American)
• A timeline of immigration policy in the United States (Sunlight Foundation)
• As a Reminder, the Fed Is NOT Printing Money (Jesse’s Cafe Americain)
• End it like Beckham: England legend calls time on glittering career and retires (Daily Mail)
• How Likely is A Continued Market Rise? (Avondale Asset Management)
• What I Learned From Watching Every Single Episode of The Office (Esquire)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Weekend Reads

May 18, 2013 6:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My longer form weekend reading material:

• How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled (NYRB)
• That’s a ‘Depression’: Europe’s Double-Dip Is Officially Longer Than Its Great Recession (Atlantic)
• Dirty medicine (Fortune) see also Meet the career con man who made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online—and pulled off a federal sting that forced Google to pay $500 million. (Wired)
• The changing nature of work: Increasing automation is fundamentally shifting the nature of work away from ‘making stuff’ towards personal services. (piera)
• This Is Your Brain, On: How our minds work their way through the maze of consciousness (BookForum
• The Possibilian (The New Yorker)
• Bret, Unbroken (Runner’s World)
• Welcome to the Programmable World (Wired)
• Secret Rocks: The $10 billion jewels industry is shrouded in beauty—and mystery. Is change about to come? (WSJ)
• The Dark and Starry Eyes of Ray Bradbury (The New Atlantis)

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Thursday AM Reads

May 16, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Remember This Moment When the Black Swans All Had Their necks Broken (The Reformed Broker)
• Soros Joins Gold-Stake Cuts Before Bear Market Drop (Bloomberg)
• Indulge Your Appetite for Stocks (for now) (Barron’s)  but see also Longer odds for short-selling success (The Austrailian)
• US financial advisers drive ETF growth (FT.com)
• Abenomics passes an early test (FT Alphaville)
• Farmland Price Boom Continues, but Pace Moderates (WSJ) see also From Brooklyn to California, Housing Bubble Threat Grows (Bloomberg)
• How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley (New Yorker)
• Google’s Multi-Front War (Digitopoly) but see The Android Detour (stratechery)
• I Boldly Went Where Every Star Trek Movie and TV Show Has Gone Before (Slate)
• Cells as living calculators (MITNews)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Tuesday PM Reads

May 14, 2013 3:30 pm / Leave a Comment /

My afternoon traffic court reads:

• Markets and Memory Banks: Why Investors Can’t Imagine a Collapse of the Bond Market (Total Return)
• This Time It’s Different, Really (Money Beat)
• Don’t just do something, sit there! In Soccer and Investing, Bias Is Toward Action (Bucks)
• How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled (New York Review of Books)
• One British Hedge Funds Secret? Cutting its fees! (DealBook)
• These financial advisers needed advisers (MarketWatch)
• Boring, Diversified, And (Still) Tough To Beat (Capital Spectator)
• IRS Was Wrong to Single Out Tea Parties, But Many Political Groups Should Not be Tax-Exempt (TaxVox) see also Congress WTF? Put Pressure on IRS to Investigate Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups (Atlantic)
• 29 Rules for College Graduates (WSJ)
• Photographer camped in -37C temperatures for three months to capture the Northern Lights over Rocky Mountains (Daily Mail)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

May 14, 2013 8:45 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Is stocks’ recent run start of second leg of bull? (USAToday)
• Of course “hedge funds” lose money (Noahpinion)
• Using Geography to Predict Stock Market Returns (MoneyBeat)
• What Does Japan Mean For The Rest of the World? (Tim Duy’s Fed Watch) see also A new type of growth is emerging (FT Alphaville)
• The Facebook Flop (Stratechery)
• Why have so few bankers gone to jail? (Economist) see also Credit-rating agencies poised to avoid overhaul (Washington Post)
• Navy Catches the Drone Bug (WSJ)
• Here’s The Real Reason People Bash Bernanke And Keynes When They’re On Stage At Conferences (Business Insider) see also In Praise of Econowonkery (NYT)
• The Tesla Model S Is The Best Car We’ve Ever Seen (CONSUMER REPORTS)
• Meet Marc Maron: the Comedic Podcast Giant on His New IFC Show & More (Daily Beast)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Monday AM Reads

May 13, 2013 8:45 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• This is the best thing you will read today: The End is Where We Start From (The Reformed Broker)
• Rally Matches 1990s Gains With Valuations 28% Lower (Bloomberg) see also Literally Every Strategist On Wall Street Has Been Wrong About The Stock Market (Business Insider)
• After a decade of decline, it’s time for the dollar to have its day (Telegraph)
• How the Rich Play the Market (WSJ)
• U.S. Posts Biggest Monthly Surplus in 5 Years (Real Time Economics)
• Japan: The Kuroda recovery will be about domestic demand and not about exports (The Market Monetarist)
• The Facebook Home disaster (Salon)
• Bloomberg’s culture is all about omniscience, down to the last keystroke (Quartz)
• Pilotless Planes, Pacific Tensions (NYT) see also U.S. automatic cuts send Pentagon contract awards down 52 percent (Washington Post)
• Twitter Vines Get Shared 4x More Than Online Video Researcher says nascent tool packs branding punch (AdWeek)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Sunday Reads

May 12, 2013 7:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My Sunday plane reading:

• CNBC’s Ratings Decline is Bullish News for Investors (USNews)
• Hilsenrath: Fed Maps Exit From Stimulus (WSJ)
• Searching for Signs of a Market Top (Barron’s) see also The News Stock Market Bulls Don’t Want to Hear (Motley Fool)
• I’m sure this ends well: Meet Dylan, the day trader (Washington Post)
• Robert Skidelsky vs. Niall Ferguson: John Maynard Keynes Is Not Ke$ha (Delong)
• California Homeowner Bill of Rights blocks BofA foreclosure (Housingwire)
• Tear down this icon: Why the GOP has to get over Ronald Reagan (Washington Post) see also Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It’s Barack Obama? (Forbes)
• Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon (Wired)
• Fiat 500e Review: The Bosses Don’t Love This Hybrid Electric, but You Will (WSJ)
• Special Delivery: The Postal Service Story (npr)

Whats for brunch?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Friday AM Reads

May 10, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Market bears still waiting for pullback (CNNMoney) but see It’s not just stocks; everything is overvalued (MarketWatch)
• Welcome to Saudi America (FT Alphaville)
• Fees of Fees don’t sound like a great deal for the investors:  2 & 20% + 1.5% yearly fee + (one time) 3% placement charge (NYT) see also The Things You See at a Las Vegas Hedge Fund Confab (NY Mag)
• Fidelity vs. Vanguard: Which is best? (MarketWatch)
• Foreclosure Filings in US Hit Six-Year Low (World Property Channel) see also Challenge to Dogma on Owning a Home (NYT)
• Paulson Bid to Resurrect Reputation Hurt by Gold Gone Bad (Bloomberg)
• Our Swiftly Melting Deficit, Or How the U.S. is Killing It (Daily Beast) see also Why Republicans Really Love Budget Deficits (The Fiscal Times)
• More money, more self-reported satisfaction, but not more happiness… (FT Alphaville)
• Turn Bad Stress Into Good (WSJ)
• Sexiest Women and Hottest Celebrities (Maxim)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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