10 Sunday Reads

February 17, 2013 7:30am by Barry Ritholtz

Good Sunday morning — some reads to kick off your day:

• Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail: How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with (RollingStone)
• How you can be a smart market timer (MarketWatch)
• CNBC Is Nobody’s Sloppy Seconds! (Dealbreaker) see also At CNBC, a strict guest policy (Politico)
• Warren Buffett’s Kind of Deal (Dealbook)
• Value Stocks Are Hot—But Most Investors Will Burn Out (WSJ) see also Cash Shouldn’t Be the Only Apple of Your Eye (WSJ)
• Billionaires Soros, Bacon Cut Gold Holdings on Decline (Bloomberg)
• The audacity of dope: Cannabis as an investment (Economist) see also Hemp Is Harmless, a Potential Economic Miracle, and Still Illegal in America — But the Tide Seems to Be Turning (Alternet)
• The Myth of “Saudi America” (Slate)
• The Drug Laws That Changed How We Punish (npr)
• Scientists unveil new detectors in race to save Earth from next asteroid (Guardian)

What’s for brunch?

AOL vs Netflix

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