My afternoon reading:
• 71% Say Government Should Let Big Troubled Banks Fail (Rasmussen Report)
• Greece: when the drugs run out (FT.com)
• Queen Elizabeth, Venture Capitalist for Marauders (Bloomberg)
• Lampert Skeptics Could Get Seared on Sears (WSJ)
• Investigating JPMorgan Chase (Economix)
• Rand Paul’s cynical budget (Washington Post)
• How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet (Gizmodo)
• Coffee May Help Drinkers Live Longer, U.S. Study Suggests (Bloomberg)
• WTF? The manhood makeover: The rise of the penis enlargement (Independent)
• TONITE: Conan O’Brien to Appear on Letterman Show (NYT)
What are you reading?
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How Facebook’s I.P.O. Compares
Source: NYT
My early morning reads:
• Josh’s Notes from the Ira Sohn Conference 2012 (TRB) see also Hedge-Fund Stars Come Out (WSJ)
• Indians’ affinity for gold pushing country into debt (Washington Post)
• Clive Crook: If Greece Quits Euro, Its Ruin Will Be Pointless (Bloomberg)
• Why China’s RMB exodus IS the story (FT.com) see also China Slowdown to End in Third Quarter, Survey Shows (Bloomberg)
• JP Morgan investment unit played by different high-risk rules (IFR)
• Good money after bad: CalPERS and the crisis in venture capital (89.3KPCC)
• Baum: Bond Market May Not Warn When Debt Crisis Strikes (Bloomberg)
• Facebook: The smart money exits (Reuters) see also Rich Karlgaard: The Future Is More Than Facebook (WSJ)
• WTF? Doubt Cast on the ‘Good’ in ‘Good Cholesterol’ (NYT) Damn! I have tons of the good stuff!
• A.G., U.S. Attorney Headline White Collar Crime Institute (Corporate Counsel)
What are you reading?
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Euro Zone by the Numbers
Source: WSJ
My afternoon reading:
• Hedge or Bet? Parsing a Trade (WSJ)
• Q&A on Facebook’s IPO: What does it mean for you? (Washington Post)
• Is Dimon’s ‘Stupid’ Defense a Smart Move? (Yahoo Finance) see also Polishing the Dimon Principle (WSJ)
• Accidentally Released – and Incredibly Embarrassing – Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in ‘Naked Short Selling’ (Rolling Stone)
• Assessing the Representativeness of Public Opinion Surveys (People Press)
• Ronald Reagan on Marriage: Love, Dad (Letters Of Note)
• Let The Honeymoon Begin: Romney’s Poll Numbers Perk Up (TPM)
• The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems (Jonathan Stray)
• Is Death Bad for You? (The Chronicle)
• Five Lessons From Music’s Most Feared Manager, Led Zeppelin’s Peter Grant (Businessweek)
What are you reading?
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Bank Investors Bail on Too-Big-to-Fail
Source: WSJ
My afternoon reading:
• Post-Financial Crisis – How do the Major Economic Players Stack Up? (Northern Funds)
• Three reasons beating the market is so difficult (Dallas News)
• The Economic Case for Same-Sex Marriage (Bloomberg)
• How Moore’s Law Affects Wall St. Trading (DealBook)
• Media Analysis: Murdoch has been humiliated but much worse is yet to come (London Evening Standard) see also Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch’s Empire (NYT)
• 13 Disturbing Facts About McDonald’s (The Fiscal Times)
• Jon Favreau Talks ‘Iron Man 3,’ Praises Joss Whedon for Avengers (Hollywood Reporter)
• Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanner ‘Vulnerabilities’ (Wired) see also Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds Of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars (Tech Dirt)
• All Presentation Software is Broken (Ilya Grigorik)
• Is the filibuster unconstitutional? (Washington Post)
What are you reading?
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Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists
Source: WSJ
My early morning reads:
• Small Cities Are Becoming A New Engine Of Economic Growth (New Geography) see also Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback (Salon)
• Make Banking Boring (NYT)
• Share buybacks: the other way company managers rob you (Money Week)
• Attention Frustrated Chartists: It ain’t HFT – it’s the Macro! (Mercenary Trader)
• Who will tame the giant vampire squid? (New Economics) see also Who Are the One Percent? (Barron’s)
• Checkbox Syndrome: Why We Spend Money on Things We Don’t Need (and How to Avoid It) (Life Hacker)
• Apple squared, (four)squared (Gigaom)
• Facebook’s worst idea yet: Paid post promotion (ZDNet)
• How a Radical Greek Rescue Plan Fell Short (WSJ)
• Visiting NYC? Where to Eat in New York, The Best Restaurants And More (Serious Eats
What are you reading?
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J.P. Morgan’s Loss: Lessons From a Fiasco
Source: WSJ
My afternoon reading:
• Frank Partnoy: Rebuild the pillars of 1930s Wall Street (FT.com)
• Berkshire 2012: The Times They Are A-Changing and Other Observations (Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up)
• Spark in Sales of Cars and Trucks Drives U.S. Economy (Bloomberg)
• CFA Conference: James Montier (Above Market) see also Flaws of Finance (The Research Puzzle)
• Why Is Barron’s More Bullish Online Than in Print? (Picks & Pans Breakdown) (Wall Street)
• Teri Buhl: SEC Tells JP Morgan Enforcement Action Coming over Bear’s Mortgage Backed Securities Violations (Wall Street Unplugged)
• How the Blind Are Reinventing the iPhone (The Atlantic) see also My First Week with the iPhone (Behind The Curtain)
• Small Cities Are Becoming A New Engine Of Economic Growth (New Geography)
• What Were The Most Radical Social Experiment in Modern History? (The Atlantic)
• Was Paul’s Boutique Illegal? (The Slate)
What are you reading?
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Floating Facebook
Source: The Economist
My early morning reads to start the week:
• 4 years after Wall Street crash, regulation of financial markets is still spotty (MC Clatchy) see also Double or Nothing: How Wall Street is Destroying Itself (Azizonomics)
• Martin Wolf: The Journey Towards Becoming Japan (FT.com)
• For Many in Greece, Austerity Is a False Choice (NYT) see also As European Austerity Ends, So Could the Euro (Bloomberg)
• Subsidies Aid Rebirth in U.S. Manufacturing (NYT)
• Risk without Reward (Harvard Mag)
• So You Wanna Talk About JPM’s Trading Loss and The London Whale (Kid Dynamite’s World) see also [JPM Whale-Watching Tour] Too Big To Hedge (FT.com)
• What if realists were in charge of U.S. foreign policy? (Foreign Policy)
• Seeing is understanding (Taschen)
• Missing: Stats on Crisis Convictions (WSJ)
• Prime-Time Howard Stern (NYT)>
What are you reading?
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A Rare Speed Bump in Commodities’ Long Run
Source: WSJ
Some longer form reads for your Sunday morning pleasure:
•
A Circle of Tech: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up (
NYT)
• Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He? (
Pando Daily)
• Why Can’t Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice? (
Daily Beast)
• “Oh My God — We’re In Bed With The Vampire Squid!” (
Business Insider)
•
Degrees of Debt: A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College (
NYT)
• Developing Nations: Defeatist mindsets of different camps of worn out oldsters (
New Economic Perspective)
• Uncatchable: George Wright, America’s most elusive fugitive, ran for forty years. (
GQ)
• Travel: The Many Ways to Catch Shut-Eye in the Sky (
WSJ)
• Why fiction is good for you (
Boston.com)
•
Craig Claiborne: When He Dined, the Stars Came Out (
NYT)
What are you reading?
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Stocks Fall More Than 1% as Bank News Stings
Source: Barron’s
Pour a cup of strong Joe, get comfortable in your favorite chair, and enjoy these longer form articles –they are what I am reading this weekend:
• The brain… it makes you think. Doesn’t it? (The Guardian)
• How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform (Rolling Stone)
• Zuckerberg: The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man (NY Mag)
• How the Corvair’s rise and fall changed America forever (Reuters)
• Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle (NYT Mag)
• How Hewlett-Packard lost its way (CNN Fortune)
• Hedging is a Tricky and Mercurial Thing (The Epicurean Dealmaker)
• Complex Philosophical Theories Explained in Basic Shapes (My Modern Met)
• The Duke Ellington collective (The Times Literary Supplement)
• The Inquisition of Mr. Marvel: On the surprisingly complicated legacy of Stan Lee (Grantland)
Whats on your tablet?
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At JPMorgan Chase, a Complex Strategy That Backfired
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Source: NYT
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