10 Thursday AM Reads

October 11, 2012 10:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reads:

• Markets are up. Earnings are down. Here’s what’s really going on. (WP) see also Market Warning Signs (Stocktwits)
• Narula Masters Fed, Beats Funds With 500% Gain: Mortgages (Bloomberg) so sorry about that down 100% year in 2008…
• Stocks Skid Into Earnings Pothole (WSJ) see also 20% (WTF?) of US Firms Cook the Books During Earnings: Report (CNBC)
• New York mortgage trial could have broad impact on Wall Street (Reuters)
• On the Unsustainability of Austrian Business-Cycle Theory, Or How I Discovered that Ludwig von Mises Actually Rejected His Own Theory (Uneasy Money)
• Facebook: The Making of 1 Billion Users (Business Week) see also Facebook Fought SEC to Keep Mobile Risks Hidden Before IPO (Bloomberg)
• out of office reply (The Reformed Broker)
• The Index of Missing Economic Indicators; The Unemployment Myth (NYT) see also US underemployment is not as bad as you think (FT)
• The Renminbi Challenge (Project Syndicate)
• Does Biology Make us Liars? (The New Republic) see also Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong (Reason)

What are you reading?

There 3.5 People Looking for a Job for each Position available in August 2012

Source: Economic Populist

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