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10 Monday AM Reads

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On July 18, 2011 @ 5:51 am In Financial Press | Comments Disabled

Lots of interesting reading to start the week:

• Five truths about the deficit and the national debt (Washington Post ^[1])
• Gold Rallies to Record in Best Run Since 1980 (Bloomberg ^[2])
• Big Mortgages Are Back (WSJ ^[3]) see also 2nd Loans, 2nd Wave of Losses (NYT ^[4])
• Either the Fed Goes, or I Do: (Slate ^[5]) Ron Paul retires from Congress, leaving behind a GOP that finally learned to love him.
• Carl Bernstein: Murdoch’s Watergate? (Newsweek ^[6]) see also NewsCorp Scandal Grows (WSJ ^[7])
• Google’s a big infrastructure spender (Washington Post ^[8])
• Driven off the Road by M.B.A.s (Time ^[9]) Why a Rise in M.B.A.s Coincided with the Fall of American Industry
• Medical marijuana: A science-free zone at the White House [Blowback] (LA Times ^[10])
• New Research Suggests Everybody’s Less Satisfied (Miller McCune ^[11])
• This week in Content Farms: Huffington Post Challenge (Slate ^[12])

What are you reading?

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URLs in this post:

[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/five-truths-about-the-deficit-and-the-debt/2011/07/13/gIQAcjbFGI_story.html

[2] Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-18/gold-rallies-to-record-in-best-run-since-1980.html

[3] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304223804576446042270052566.html

[4] NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/business/second-lien-loans-may-prompt-new-losses-for-banks.html?ref=business

[5] Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2299086

[6] Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/murdoch-s-watergate.print.html

[7] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304567604576451732627388162.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories%20target=

[8] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/googles-a-big-infrastructure-spender/2011/07/14/gIQAD8DdFI_blog.html

[9] Time: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2081930,00.html

[10] LA Times: http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/07/medical-marijuana-the-deas-science-free-zone-blowback.html

[11] Miller McCune: http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture/new-research-suggests-everybodys-less-satisfied-33769/

[12] Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2299129

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