10 Friday AM Reads

October 11, 2013 9:45am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reading:

• In Latest IPOs, Profits Aren’t the Point (WSJ)
• Living in a low return world (Abnormal Returns)
•Today’s wacky Bloomberg Headlines:
…..-China Export Gains Understated on Fake-Data Distortions (Bloomberg)
…..-JPMorgan Clients Roll Bonds as Schwab Options Hedge Default (Bloomberg)
• Nate Silver: The Six Big Takeaways From the Government Shutdown (Grantland)
• Squandering America’s Debt Advantage (WSJ) see also Why the level of government debt may not matter (FT Alphaville)
• The Anti-Yellen Campaigning Has Begun (Slate)
• Buried in Fine Print: $57B of FHA Loans Big Banks May Have to Eat (American Banker) see also Too Big to Fail banks still extend, pretend (Columbia Journalism Review)
• PolitiFact to launch PunditFact, checking pundits and media figures (Politifact)
• Why Republicans are losing the shutdown blame game (The Fix) see also GOP plummets, Obamacare soars in shutdown standoff (msnbc)
• Oceans of Life photography competition 2013 – in pictures (The Guardian)

What are you reading?

Natural disasters

Source: Economist

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