10 Friday AM Reads
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On December 7, 2012 @ 9:40 am In Financial Press | Comments Disabled
My end of week NFP-free reading:
• Demographics drives spending: The Baby Boom Bump (NYT [1])
• The Infrastructure Cliff: Why the U.S. Desperately Needs a $2.5 Trillion Upgrade (The Atlantic [2]) see also Should Plummeting Interest Rates Change Deficit Hawks’ Arguments? (Next New Deal [3])
• A new take on causality (The Physics of Finance [4])
• How Have Analysts Performed? (Bespoke [5]) see also The Sandy excuse for poor performance (Sober Look [6])
• Soaring Rents Drive a Boom in Apartments (NYT [7])
• How to Fairly Punish Bad Banks (The Motley Fool [8])
• Jim DeMint and the death of think tanks (Wonkblog [9]) see also The Odd Choice of Jim DeMint at Heritage (Bloomberg [10])
• Artist captures bizarre images shot by Google’s Street View cameras (NY Daily News [11])
• The 50 Best Animal Photos Of 2012 (BuzzFeed [12])
• Albert Brooks: “We Will Lose the War to China Because of Twitter” (Vanity Fair [13])
What are you doing this weekend?
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Source: WSJ [15]
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URLs in this post:
[1] NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/opinion/the-baby-boom-bump.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
[2] The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-infrastructure-cliff-why-the-us-desperately-needs-a-25-trillion-upgrade/265915/
[3] Next New Deal: http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/should-plummeting-interest-rates-change-deficit-hawks-arguments
[4] The Physics of Finance: http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-new-take-on-causality.html
[5] Bespoke: http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/12/6/how-have-analysts-performed.html
[6] Sober Look: http://soberlook.com/2012/12/the-sandy-excuse-for-poor-performance.html
[7] NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/business/developers-of-new-housing-aim-for-renters-not-buyers.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all
[8] The Motley Fool: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/12/06/how-to-fairly-punish-bad-banks.aspx
[9] Wonkblog: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/06/jim-demint-and-the-death-of-think-tanks/
[10] Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/the-odd-choice-of-jim-demint-at-heritage.html
[11] NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/bizarre-images-captured-google-street-view-cameras-gallery-1.1214757?pmSlide=0
[12] BuzzFeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/best-animal-photos-of-2012
[13] Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2012/12/albert-brooks-judd-apatow-john-lennon?mbid=social_retweet
[14] Image: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mint.jpg
[15] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323316804578163722900112526.html
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