10 Tuesday PM Reads

April 23, 2013 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

My afternoon train reading:

• AP Twitter account hacked, makes false claim of explosions at White House (The Verge) see also Fake Tweet Shows Pitfalls of Algo-Driven World (MoneyBeat)
• Financial Crimes Topped State-Sponsored Hacking Incidents in 2012 (All Things D)
• Gold’s Declining Price Is a Reversion to the Mean (NYT) see also GS: Stop Shorting Gold (MoneyBeat)
• Barron’s Cover Story Wants To Tinker With The Dow So It Hides Stock Market Bubbles (Business Insider)
• Monte Carlo’s Role in Retirement Planning (Morningstar) See also A First Encounter With Monte Carlo Simulation (Dave Giles’)
• The Doctoral Student Who ‘Happed’ Reinhart and Rogoff (Real Time Economics)
• Wall Street is at it all over again (Macleans) see also Welcome to the Anarchy Economy (The Daily Beast)
• The Science Behind Why We Procrastinate (lifehacker)
• Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think (Tech Crunch)
• 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare (Mental Floss)

What are you reading?

Assets and Net Worth of Households and Nonprofits, 2005-2012

Source: FRBSF.org

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