Tuesday Reads

November 24, 2009 4:15pm by Barry Ritholtz

Fascinating stuff on the intertubes today:

• Fischer Speaking Means Bernanke Listening When Rates Fluctuate (Bloomberg)

• Are the Dollar Bears Too Bullish? (Barron’s)

• Commercial RE Values Off 43% From 2007 Peak (Globe ST)

• Amazon vs Wal-Mart Price War (NYT) see also Round-Up of Holiday Spending Surveys, Reports (Panzner)

• Fed Said to Ask Banks to Submit Plans to Repay TARP (Bloomberg)

• Spitzer: The new AIG report reveals how the Treasury secretary—and U.S. taxpayers—were fleeced by Wall Street banks (Slate) see also AIG’s Rescue Bedevils U.S. (WSJ)

• How to shrink the banks (Prospect)

• Geithner Is Stalking Horse for Rage at Wall Street (Bloomberg) See also Could Wall Street Actually Lose in Congress? (New Republic)

• Paul Farrell: 15 signs Wall Street pathology is spreading (Marketwatch)

• Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours (Study Hacks)

• Fine-Tuned With Age, Bryant’s Game Keeps Evolving (NYT) Can Kobe become the next Jordan?

• Narrative charts of Lord of the Rings, Star Wars Trilogy (Pasa la vida)

What are you reading?

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