10 Friday AM Reads

May 3, 2013 9:43am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reads:

• Preferred Shares Find Favor Among Banks (WSJ)
• The Intel Opportunity & Andy Grove (Stratechery)
• We have an Inflation Problem: There’s Not Enough of It (NYT)
• The Falling Cost Of Solar Energy Is Surprising Everyone (Business Insider)
• Betaworks is Buying Up All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem (Atlantic)
• WTF? GOP Census Bill Would Eliminate America’s Economic Indicators (UPDATE) (Huffington Post) see also A new GOP bill would prevent the government from collecting economic data (Wonkblog)
• Austerity: The History of a Pernicious Idea (New Republic) see also Faced With Discredited Research, WSJ Doubles Down On Calls For Austerity (Media Matters)
• 10 Technologies That Are Completely Changing The World (Business Insider)
• ‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time (Wired)
• The Section: Knights of Soft Rock (Rolling Stone)

What are you reading?

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Source: Barron’s

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