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Monday Reads

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On April 25, 2011 @ 4:30 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled

Some interesting reading to start off your week:

• Scenes From the Madoff Masquerade (NYT [1])
• Roger Lowenstein: Buffett on the Spot, or What were you thinking, Warren? (Newsweek [2])
• How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made (Forbes, Part One [3] and Part Two [4])
• Lawyers got it right on the foreclosure mess (WaPo [5]) See also Warning signs of foreclosure crisis were ignored (WaPo [6])
• Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans (Knowledge@Wharton [7])
• Don’t let banks gamble with taxpayer money (FT.com [8])
• Bill Gross Battles Dealers on Outlook as Treasuries Gain (Bloomberg [9])
• The Sharing Economy (Fast Company [10])
• What Lucky People Do Different (Jonathan Fields [11])
• Rude Boys: The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill (NY Mag [12])  I’m more of a Paul’s Boutique [13] kinda guy

What are you reading?

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[1] NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/business/24excerpt.html

[2] Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/24/buffett-on-the-spot.print.html

[3] Part One: http://blogs.forbes.com/susannahbreslin/2011/04/20/how-your-journalism-sausage-gets-made-part-one/

[4] Part Two: http://blogs.forbes.com/susannahbreslin/2011/04/21/how-your-journalism-sausage-gets-made-part-two/

[5] WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102104846.html

[6] WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/25/AR2010102504935.html

[7] Knowledge@Wharton: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2755

[8] FT.com: http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/04/don’t-let-banks-gamble-with-taxpayer-money/

[9] Bloomberg: http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=ao8ZZEDThn3A

[10] Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1747551/print

[11] Jonathan Fields: http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/what-lucky-people-do-differently/

[12] NY Mag: http://nymag.com/print/?/arts/popmusic/features/beastie-boys-2011-5/

[13] Paul’s Boutique: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002UUN/thebigpictu09-20

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