10 Tuesday AM Reads

My Two-fer-Tuesday morning train reads:

• Yanis Varoufakis: Angela Merkel has a red and a yellow button. One ends the crisis. Which does she push? (Guardiansee also How Greece leaving the euro would actually work (Vox)
• Forget Bitcoin — What Is the Blockchain and Why Should You Care? (Re/Codebut see Bitcoin being forked? (FT Alphaville)
• Luxury Brands Have a Big Problem—Their Own Outlet Stores (BI)
• A solar future isn’t just likely — it’s inevitable (Vox)
• Wall Street is this medical-marijuana bidder’s secret weapon (Crain’s New York) but see FDA Cloud Hangs Over Vape Shops (WSJ)

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    • RW commented on Jul 7

      A few months back I read a NYT opinion column by a young German, the political editor of Die Zeit, that not only discounted history but maligned one of the greatest German writers of the past century while so doing.

      The next cycle of European (un)sanity appears to be establishing itself and finding its apologists: delayed a trifle by the Euro project perhaps but still more or less on schedule.

  1. RW commented on Jul 7

    BRs’ Bloomberg column on Lemon Socialism appears to have found some wider resonance, at least if one can judge anecdotally by its reprint in a (relatively conservative) smallish newspaper; e.g., Albany/Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette-Times

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