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Wednesday Reads

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On March 2, 2011 @ 4:50 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled

My afternoon reading material:

• Sexual Economics, Erotic Capital (Slate ^[1])

• Bernanke Doesn’t Rule Out More Bond Buying to Aid Economy (Bloomberg ^[2]) but see We’re Just Gonna Inflate Our Way Out Of It! (ContraryInvestor ^[3])

• China’s Highly Unequal Economy (The Diplomat ^[4])

• Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street (MarketWatch ^[5])

• Leonhardt: Union Contracts, Not Pay, Are States’ Problem (NYT ^[6])

• Accidental Death Becomes Suicide When Insurers Dodge Payouts (Bloomberg ^[7])

• How the Internet gets inside us. (New Yorker ^[8])

• 1 million workers. 90 million iPhones. 17 suicides. Who’s to Blame? (Wired ^[9])

• The Day the Movies Died (GQ ^[10])

• R.E.M.Collapse Into Now: “smart, sonically rich and emotionally resonant” (Stream full album at NPR ^[11], full review at Rolling Stone ^[12], pre-order at Amazon ^[13])

What are you reading?

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[1] Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2286240/pagenum/all/

[2] Bloomberg: http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqW7i2YcZrlU&pos=1

[3] ContraryInvestor: http://www.contraryinvestor.com/moprinter.htm

[4] The Diplomat: http://the-diplomat.com/whats-next-china/china’s-highly-unequal-economy/?print=yes

[5] MarketWatch: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/story/print?guid=E745AE10-4376-11E0-ADFE-00212804637C

[6] NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/business/02leonhardt.html

[7] Bloomberg: http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=ab0RHbFR9sQY

[8] New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all

[9] Wired: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/all/1

[10] GQ: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris?currentPage=all

[11] NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/01/133998085/first-listen-r-e-m-collapse-into-now

[12] Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/collapse-into-now-20110223

[13] Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004G5ZXVQ/thebigpictu09-20

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