Tuesday Reading 12.08.09

By Barry Ritholtz - December 8th, 2009, 4:15PM

A few items that have caught my eye:

• Yale’s Jeffrey Garten: We must get ready for a weak-dollar world (FT)

• Why cheap oil is here to stay (CNN/Money)

• FedEx Profit Beating Forecast Signals ‘Up Arrow’ for Economy (Bloomberg)

• Wisdom from Seth Klarman

• Stock market down but not out, according to Dow transports (MarketWatch)

• Moody’s Says U.K., U.S. Aaa Ratings Relatively Weaker (Bloomberg) Like anyone still cares what Moody’s says . . .

• Another myth busted: Bankers had cashed in before the music stopped (FT) Insiders pocketed billions before Wall Street’s collapse

• Can the Federal Government Really Create Jobs? (Time)

• Major record labels rip off 300,000 songs for compilation CDs, may owe $60 billion in damages

• Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts (Video)

• World’s Nicest Subway Architecture (Design Boom)

What are you reading?

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Category: Financial Press.

Comments

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5 Responses to “Tuesday Reading 12.08.09”

MorticiaA Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
This blog is awesome, especially while I’m on pointless-yet-required conference calls. Thank goodness I can still surf over the droning.

The subway architecture is incredible.

I’m reading The Onion, because, frankly, it’s about all I can stand right now since it makes me laugh. Here’s The Onion’s take on the unemployment rate.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/labor_dept_available_labor_rate
Pocket QQ Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
This is interesting, from yesterday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091207/sc_nm/us_battery_paper
Pocket QQ Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
A better link

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/december7/nanotubes-ink-paper-120709.html
Mike in Nola Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Goldman’s buying guns. Looks like we have to trade the pitchforks for AK-47′s.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0
ToNYC Says:
December 9th, 2009 at 5:27 am
“Shock Doctrine” , Naomi Klein
“No Word For Time”, Evan T. Pritchard
” The Ethics and Selected Letters”, Baruch Spinoza
“The New Pearl Harbor Revisited” , David Ray Griffin
“Hoodwinked”, John Perkins
Lightnes of Being, Frank Wilczek