My afternoon train reading:
• Another Max Abelson special: No Joy on Wall Street as Biggest Banks Earn $63 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Is unlimited growth a thing of the past? (FT.com) see also To Economic Consensus, Add Skepticism (WSJ)
• Good News for the Unemployed (Slate)
• The Data Don’t Support That The U.S. Bank Bailouts Were Better Than the Swedish Model (Naked Capitalism)
• Debunking Economics, Part XI: Predicting the Crisis (Unlearning Economics)
• Robots Are the Future of the Oil Industry (Businessweek)
• Mandatory Quality Disclosure and Quality Supply: Evidence from German Hospitals (Ideas) see also Why does Health Care price increases count as wage gains for the Poor? (NYT)
• Top 1% Got 93% of Income Growth as Rich-Poor Gap Widened (Bloomberg)
• Obama Lead Over Romney Similar to 2008 Margin Over McCain (Bloomberg) but see Poll Shows Slim Obama Lead (WSJ)
• Introspective Mann: Amie Mann’s latest album garnering good reviews, poor puns (WSJ)
What are you reading?
A Periodic Look at Performance and Where Investor Money is Moving
Source: WSJ
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