10 MidWeek AM Reads

July 17, 2013 10:15am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reads:

• ‘Fabulous Fab’ Trial: How to Create a Synthetic CDO (Moneybeat)
• Forget Battery Swapping: Tesla Aims to Charge Electric Cars in Five Minutes (MIT Technology Review) see also Peek Inside Tesla’s Robotic Factory (Wired)
• Kazarian Emerges After 20 Years With Bid for 10% of Greek Debt (Bloomberg)
• Today’s WTF headline: IKEA becomes largest foreign landowner in China (Want China Times)
• John Galt and the Theory of the Firm (The Conscience of a Liberal) see also At Sears, Eddie Lampert’s Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles (Businessweek)
• The Return of Lawrence Summers, Mr. Spectacular Failure (Nation)
• For hire: Professional liars for job seekers (CNNMoney)
• Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others? (Smithsonian)
• Jenny McCarthy’s Dangerous Views on Vaccination (Elements) see also Anti-Vaccine Body Count (Jenny McCarthy Body Count)
• Skyscraper Builders Reach for the Stars Once Again (WSJ)

What are you reading?

As Consumer-Discretionary Stocks Surge, Bears Lurk

Source: WSJ

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