10 Weekend Reads

November 2, 2013 7:30am by Barry Ritholtz

Good Saturday morning. Pour yourself a cup of Joe, and enjoy these longer form, interesting reads I have accumulated over the past week:

• Using Chaos Theory to Predict and Prevent Catastrophic ‘Dragon King’ Events (Wired)
• How General Motors Was Really Saved: The Untold True Story Of The Most Important Bankruptcy In U.S. History (Forbes)
• Takedown: Meet Dave Ramsey, America’s Personal Finance Guru (Pacific Standard)
• Dan Loeb’s Skeletons: Did He Hit a Young Cuban Kid in a 2002 Car Accident? (Vanity Fair) see also Bill Erbey Made $2.3B Off Your Underwater Mortgage (The Street)
• Why Is America Turning To Shit? (The Awl)
• The Snowden Leaks and the Public (NY Books)
• The Nuclear Fusion Arms Race Is Underway (Vice
• Why I Quit Major League Baseball (New Yorker)
• The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store (Business Week)
• The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It (Technology Review)

Whats up or the weekend?

Analyzing State Tax Reciepts

Source: Liscio Report

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