10 Friday AM Reads

July 19, 2013 10:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning reads:

• Changing the Mix, Not Level, of Accommodation (Tim Duy’s Fed Watch) see also When you’re rattled by collateral, do the Fed taper talk (FT Alphaville)
• Falling oil prices could spark global turmoil (CNNMoney)
• The Time Bernanke Got It Wrong (NYT) see also Wanted: Higher Prices (Limericks Économiques)
• House-flipping is back, flourishing again (CNBC)
• The Case for Paying People More (Harvard Business Review) see also Middle class still left behind in U.S. economic recovery, data show (Washington Post)
• The History of App Pricing, And Why Most Apps Are Free (Flurry)
• Bernanke Explains How Fed Views Inflation (Real Time Economics) also Bernanke: Nobody Really Understands Gold Prices (Real Time Economics)
• Tiny laser may speed up future computers (arstechnica)
• The demise of Microsoft’s monopoly and the PC market, by the numbers (ExtremeTech) see also Microsoft Profit Misses Estimates Amid Surface Writedown (Bloomberg)
• The 10 greatest white elephants of all time (theguardian)

What are you reading?

Detroit’s Bankruptcy Is the Nation’s Largest

Source: NYT

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