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Monday Reads

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On July 26, 2010 @ 4:15 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled

Ahhh, good to be back in the saddle after a week away. Quite a few very worthwhile reads crossed my desk today:

• Treasuries at Odds With Stocks (Barron’s [1])

• Martin Wolf: The political genius of supply-side economics (FT.com [2])

• Sixteen Dow Recoveries: Update (D Short [3])

• The Great Mortification: Economists and the Crisis of 2007 (Infectious Greed [4])

• Ten Stock-Market Myths That Just Won’t Die (WSJ [5])

• Stephen Roach on The Consumption Gap: They thought Asia would save the world economy. They were wrong. (Foreign Policy [6])

•  22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America (Business Insider [7])

• Clay Shirky: What I Read (The Atlantic [8])

• London Times loses 90% of online readership: Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic  (Guardian [9]) See also Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits  (Wired [10])

• World’s best street food  (CNN [11])

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[1] Barron’s: http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204078204575377350577241056.html

[2] FT.com: http://blogs.ft.com/martin-wolf-exchange/2010/07/25/the-political-genius-of-supply-side-economics/

[3] D Short: http://dshort.com/articles/Dow/sixteen-Dow-recoveries.html

[4] Infectious Greed: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/07/t_the_great_mor.html

[5] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB128000197220920621.html

[6] Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/21/the_consumption_gap?page=0,1

[7] Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america-2010-7#83-percent-of-all-us-stocks-are-in-the-hands-of-1-percent-of-the-people-1#ixzz0tmn4EiOc

[8] The Atlantic: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Clay-Shirky-What-I-Read-1359

[9] Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/20/times-paywall-readership

[10] Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/

[11] CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/07/19/worlds.best.street.food/index.html

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