10 Weekend Reads

October 22, 2011 7:40am by Barry Ritholtz

Some reads to start off your weekend:

• Liz Ann Sonders: Welcome to the Machine: High-Frequency Trading Domination (Schwab)
• Merkel: Value Versus Growth (Aleph Blog)
• Picerno: Awkward History Lessons for Fed Haters (Capital Spectator)
• Big-name money gurus aren’t too big to fail (Market Watch)
• Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence (NYT)
• Michael Kinsley: Four Iron-Clad Demands for Occupy Wall Street (Bloomberg)
• Herd analysts are putting lipstick on every pig (The Globe and Mail) see also Analyzing the Analysts: When Do Recommendations Add Value? (American Finance Association)
• US Businesses Not Being Strangled By Regulation And Taxation, World Bank Says (Forbes)
• What We Can Learn from Germany: How Countries With Publicly Owned Banks Do Better Than America (AlterNet) see also Struggling French Banks Fought to Avoid Oversight (WSJ)
• America’s Emptiest Cities, 2011 (Yahoo Finance)

What are you reading?

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