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Pre-Holiday Weekend Reading List

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By Barry Ritholtz - June 30th, 2011, 4:30PM

Some interesting reads for your weekend pleasure:

• In U.S. Monetary Policy, a Boon to Banks (Pro Publica)
• The CDO at the heart of the eurozone (FT)
• It’s That Time of Year: Calendar Can Trump Fundamentals (Barron’s)
• S&P to deeply cut U.S. ratings if debt payment missed (Reuters)
• BRUTAL TRUTH: Senior RIM exec tells all as co crumbles around him (BGR)
• A Fringe of Foam on Foreign Shores (Caixin)
• Clive Thompson on Establishing Rules in the Videocam Age (Wired)
• Basketball: Larger Than Real Life (Sports Illustrated)
• Triple Agent’: The final days of the suicide bomber who attacked the CIA (Washington Post)
• Monty Python members reunite for Graham Chapman film (BBC)

What are you reading?

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10 Responses to “Pre-Holiday Weekend Reading List”

  1. M Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    A bit bleak for summer reading but very clever and darkly humorous Satyajit Das:

    “Executed with Northern European creativity, charm, flexibility and humility and Mediterranean organisation, leadership diligence and appetite for hard work, the European rescue plan – “the grand compact” – is failing. ”

    http://www.eurointelligence.com/article/article/a-wagnerian-drift-to-default.html?tx_ttnewsbackPid=901&cHash=737f51e09e4cf754f1c0f9ef73a96310

    Well worth reading.

  2. carleric Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    Don’t you just love the ratings agencies…these are the same banking whores who rated every piece of real estate based garbage AAA as long as they got paid….who gives f**k what they think or threaten. Why aren’t they serving time in Maricopa County Arizona where Joe knows how to treat crimnals..

  3. Mike in Nola Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Amazon dumps its California affiliates because of new sales tax law:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/amazon_tax_hissy_fit/

    BR: I thought Amazon had gotten rid of NY affiliates over the same issue?

  4. readerOfTeaLeaves Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Mike in Nola, Amazon likes to cut off its nose to spite its face on a fairly regular basis.

    Logged on to thank BR for the link to the “Brutal Truth” article. Wow, that was a painful thing to read, but a superb link.
    Thanks!

  5. Mike in Nola Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    @reader: letter is reminiscent of the Burning Platform email Elop sent to everyone at Nokia late last year and they need someone with Elop’s drive.

    Elop is doing as much as anyone can to turn Nokia around and it looks like he may do it. Getting rid of what sounds like a similar culture where there was a lack of responsibility and urgency. Plenty of changes, jetisonning projects that weren’t likely to produce results for years, making the MSFT alliance (which may or may not work, but it’s a try),. He meets a lot with the employees and encourages emails from everyone. From what I’ve heard of him, he reads them all. And plenty of drive. They made the Microsoft deal only a few months ago and he is already carrying and demoing a Windows Phone 7 device with updates that aren’t released yet. Staged a leak of it so he got lots of play in the blogosphere.Looks like they’ll be releasing phones in Q3 or early Q4 only maybe 8 months from starting. Hard to beleive he worked at MSFT.

    On the importancce of developers, MSFT has figured that out. Rim needs to. Rim is supposed to have a bigger market share, but has really dropped the ball. MSFT created a development package that is much easier to use than either Android or Apple and has been courting developers like crazy. Despite mediocre sales so far on phones, there are 20k apps in their store in 9 months. Maybe not a lot compared to Android and Apple, but how many do you really need? They have most all the biggies, including Angry Birds. (I still don’t get that.)

  6. SomeGuyNamedDave Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    What I’m reading:

    This is not really much of a comment about your reading material, but more about a point of optimism for our economy. What are the kids up to?

    http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/pbs-newshour-does-ma.html

    Good viewing & reading about how some are exploring a new manufacturing / R&D model. It seems like the artisanal spirit is alive in more than microbrews.

  7. How the Common Man Sees It Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    Faux Photoshop: 15 Incredible Images That Look Altered but Aren’t

    These are wild

    http://weburbanist.com/2009/05/17/faux-photoshop-15-incredible-images-that-look-altered-but-arent/

    Top Five Regrets before Dying

    http://lifeinthekeyofc.waterforlife.ws/index.php/archives/1374

  8. Mike in Nola Says:
    July 1st, 2011 at 6:02 am

    Thanks for the link to the non-photoshopped pics.

  9. rktbrkr Says:
    July 1st, 2011 at 8:12 am

    Looks like Demonique Strauss Kahn will walk. We are getting the answer to the age old question “why would she lie”?

  10. How the Common Man Sees It Says:
    July 1st, 2011 at 9:52 am

    check out the rest of the site Mike. There are some great image themes

    like this:

    http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/21/21-impressive-examples-of-reflective-and-symmetrical-photography/

    or this:

    http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/08/awesome-freeze-frame-time-photography/

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