10 Monday AM Reads

December 19, 2011 10:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My reads to start the week:

• Dividend Stocks Become the Heroes (WSJ)
• China Local Debts Dwarf Official Data Prompting Too-Big-to-Complete Alarm (Bloomberg) see also Hong Kong Luxury Home Rents Reach ‘Tipping Point’ as Banks Halt Expansion (Bloomberg)
• O’Shaughnessy : The top stock-market strategy of the past 50 years (Market Watch)
• Fannie Builds Servicing Business via Secret Contracts (American Banker)
• Lenders Losing Battle of ‘Basel’ (WSJ) see also How Investors Should Think About Europe (A Dash Of Insight)
• Treat foreclosure as a crime scene (Politico) see also Debt by David Graeber (Bookforum)
• Congress Gets Failing Marks on Economy (Bloomberg)
• City banks ‘cheat’ Europe in €600m tax avoidance trading scheme (Bureau Of Investigative Journalism) see also Goldman Sachs Winning CEOs as Global No. 1 (Bloomberg)
• Locked Out of My Own Life (Smithsonian Mag)
• A Comic Distributes Himself (NYT)

WhaTF are you reading?

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Source: WSJ

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