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10 Thursday Afternoon Reads

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On July 21, 2011 @ 5:00 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled

Here are the late afternoon reading material:

• Congress Continues Debate Over Whether Or Not Nation Should Be Economically Ruined (The Onion [1])
• Consumers Use Credit Cards for Necessities as Inflation Cuts U.S. Incomes (Bloomberg [2])
• Robert J. Shiller: Debt and Delusion (Project Syndicate [3])
• Mortgage pros lead investors from pit (Crain’s New York [4])
• People Support Higher Taxes to Reduce the Deficit by a 2-to-1 Margin (Capital Gains and Games [5])
• Elizabeth Warren Makes It Personal (The Atlantic [6]) see also Will GOP Filibuster of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Head Be The End Of The 2010 Voter Revolution? (Forbes [7])
• Stop Blaming Wall Street (The New Republic [8])
• What Is Reality? A BBC Horizon Documentary (Brain Pickings [9])
• Awesome troll trashing:   Contrition (Reformed Broker [10])
• Radio Special: The Folly of Prediction (Freakonomics [11])

What are you reading?

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[1] The Onion: http://mobile.theonion.com/articles/congress-continues-debate-over-whether-or-not-nati,20977/?mobile=true

[2] Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-21/consumers-in-u-s-relying-on-credit-as-inflation-erodes-incomes.html

[3] Project Syndicate: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/shiller78/English

[4] Crain’s New York: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090104/SMALLBIZ/901039988/1072

[5] Capital Gains and Games: http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/2309/people-support-higher-taxes-reduce-deficit-2-1-margin

[6] The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/elizabeth-warren-makes-it-personal/242201/

[7] Forbes: http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/07/19/will-gop-filibuster-of-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-head-be-the-end-of-the-2010-voter-revolution/

[8] The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/print/article/economy/91905/economy-wall-street-deficit-inflation?passthru=ZDY5NWJkN2ZiNmI4NmRhZjQ4NjU4NTk4MGM5NGNhYTM

[9] Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/24/bbc-what-is-reality/

[10] Reformed Broker: http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/07/21/contrition/

[11] Freakonomics: http://freakonomicsradio.com/hour-long-special-the-folly-of-prediction.html

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