10 Monday PM Reads

March 26, 2012 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

My afternoon train reading:

• Havana Gets a Taste of the Free Market (Spiegel Online)
• Bipartisan Support in Washington for 401k Skimming (Forbes) see also Why bother with target-date funds? (Reuters)
• How the JOBS Act triumphed over its critics (Business Journals)
• How to Put More Distance Between Banks and Their Auditors (American Banker) see also Bank Lobby’s Onslaught Shifts Debate on Volcker Rule (Bloomberg)
• The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse (Huff Post)
• Everyday Stress Can Shut Down the Brain’s Chief Command Center (Scientific American) see also The Brain on Love (NYT)
• Eurozone debt crisis: how Greece could exit the euro (Telegraph)
• The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science (MoJo) see also The Science of Truthiness (HuffPost)
• Why “Don’t Be Evil” Is Evil, and Why Google Isn’t So Bad (Pando Daily)
• SCOTUS on HealthCare: It’s Not About the Law, Stupid (Slate)

What are you reading?

California Farmers Feel Pain

Source: WSJ

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