Some very interesting beach reading for the long weekend:
• Former Intel chief Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs (Businessweek)
• Federal Reserve Made U.S. Taxpayers Junk-Bond Buyers (Bloomberg)
• Revenge of the Bond Nerds (Barron’s)
• Robert Prechter, in the Sunday Times forecasting Dow 1,000: A Market Forecast That Says ‘Take Cover’ (NYT)
• James Surowiecki: MASTERS OF MAIN STREET (The New Yorker) How autodealers weaseled out of finreg reform
• As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Billions From Subsidies (NYT)
• Consumer Bankruptcy Filings at Highest Level Since 2005 (Real Time Economics)
• Lenovo: Apple is losing out in China (FT.com)
• Amazon acquires WOOT.com, leading to the best “We got bought” letter ever: Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot (Woot.com)
• Why Intelligent People Fail (Accelerating Future)
• One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot (Scientific American)
• How to whip up a good Sci-Fi dinner party (Grumpy Frenchman)
How was your long weekend?
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