10 Friday AM Reads

October 19, 2012 10:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My Friday morning crash anniversary reads:

• Ask A Banker: What’s A Derivative? (Planet Money) see also A Tax to Kill High Frequency Trading (Forbes)
• The War Over Economic Facts (Businessweek)
• Another stock crash like 1987’s is inevitable (MarketWatch) but see Get set to buy stocks after a market crash (MarketWatch)
• SEC’s Gallagher Challenges Idea of FINRA as Advisor SRO (Advisor One)
• Google Under Pressure to Wring Sales From Mobile Users (Bloomberg) see also Microsoft to AMD Follow Intel Suffering From PC Weakness (Bloomberg)
• 1987: A Computer Lesson Still Unlearned (NYT)
• 2nd presidential debate in graphs (Ezra Klein’s WonkBlog) see also The Democrats play hide and seek with Mitt Romney (Economist)
• The Onion Book of Known Knowledge (The Onion)
• Sheila Bair: 5 Steps Obama or Romney Must Take to Fix Wall Street (Fiscal Times) see also Of Bulls and Bair (Rajiv Sethi)
• Readers’ Poll: The Best Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time (Rolling Stone)

What are you reading?

Debt Fuels a Dividend Boom

Source: WSJ

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