My end of the week, morning reads:
• Is high-frequency trading a threat to stock trading, or a boon? (WP)
• Santoli: On Wall Street, Selling Fear Is Good Business (Yahoo Finance)
• Benoit Mandelbrot: A Math Genius’s Sad Calculus (Tablet Mag)
• Euro Survives, but Future Is in Doubt (NYT)
• U.S. Economy Is in the Eye of the Beholder (WSJ)
• Eisinger: Why Freddie Mac Resisted Refis (ProPublica) see also Very quietly, Countrywide, BofA settle 5 investors’ MBS fraud suits (Thomas Reuters)
• Google: Intransparent Methods of an Internet Giant (Spiegel Online) see also Facebook analysts say to hell with GAAP (Footnoted)
• The Independent Libertarian Candidate: Pipe Dreamer (The Atlantic)
• Revolving Doors Matter (Baseline Scenario)
• God Distances Self From Christian Right (The Onion)
What are you reading?
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