Stuff you should read:
• Forget Market Timing, and Stick to a Balanced Fund (NY Times)
• Gold Flows East as Bars Recast for Chinese Defying Slump (Bloomberg)
• The Myth of a Stock-Picker’s Market (WSJ)
• Yellen Faces Test Bernanke Failed: Ease Bubbles (Bloomberg)
• Apple reports flat earnings as rising competition offsets rising iPhone and iPad sales. (WSJ) but see Sales of iPhones Set Record for Quarter: 51 Million (NY Times)
• Investment cannot hide North Sea problems (FT)
• The General-Purpose iPad and the Specialist Mac (stratēchery)
• New GOP Health Plan Is White Flag in Obamacare Repeal Fight (Slate) see also Republicans have an Obamacare replacement. Economists will love it, real people won’t. (Washington Post)
• Questions on Port Authority Chairman David Samson’s PATH station vote (NorthJersey.com)
• National Flags Made From Each Country’s Traditional Foods (This Is Marvelous)
I’m cold. Is anybody else cold?
Many emerging-market currencies are falling against the dollar
Source: Economist
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