Some longer form articles for your weekend reading pleasure:
• Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (The American Conservative)
• Why Bill Gross is Leaning to Gold over Bonds (Jesse’s Café Américain)
• 2nd Circuit remakes MBS class action rules in Goldman ruling (Reuters)
• The New New-Home Market (WSJ)
• Posner: The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia (The New Republic)
• ‘I Knew It All Along … Didn’t I?’ — Understanding Hindsight Bias (Science Daily) see also Why Free Stuff Is So Irrationally Exciting (Bloomberg)
• Woodward book chronicles Obama’s fiscal policy battle with congressional Republicans (Washington Post)
• Tax planning? Or tax cheating? (LA Times) see also Mitt Romney’s tax avoidance weakens bonds of American society (Guardian)
• Carl Zimmer: The Strangeness of Life (The Browser)
• 29 Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew (The Pastry Box Project)
Whatcha doin this weekend?
America’s Hidden Austerity Program
Source: Economix
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