10 Weekend Reads

November 30, 2013 7:30am by Barry Ritholtz

My longer form, weekend reading

• The Wolf of Wall Street Can’t Sleep (New York Magazine)
• The 40-Year Slump (American Prospect) see also Secular Stagnation and Post-Scarcity (Pieria)
• The Black Swan (Seeking Wisdom)
• Why Are So Many People Paying So Much for Art? (New Yorker)
• Animals Were Harmed: Hollywood’s Nightmare of Death, Injury, and Secrecy Exposed (Hollywood Reporter)
• Inside the Company That Bungled Obamacare (Newsweek) see also Mark McClellan ran Medicare Part D. Here’s his advice for the Obama administration. (WaPo)
• This entire country is about to be wiped out by climate change: Drowning Kiribati (Businessweek)
• How Our Soldiers Come Home From the Wars: Broken (Mother Jones)
• Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: It’s a Trap! (McSweeney’s) see also The Birth of the iPhone (Medium)
• Platinum Underdog: Why Taylor Swift Is the Biggest Pop Star in the World (Vulture)

And I suppose you are going to be shopping all weekend?

All Major Market Rallies of the Last 113 Years

Source: Chart of the Day

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