10 Tuesday PM Reads

May 13, 2014 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

My afternoon train reading:

• Five big investments you don’t know you have. (WSJ)
• Is Dow Jones Record Run A Sign of Better Times or a Dangerous Top? (Motley Fool) but see ‘The Market Euphoria Scares Me’ (Moneybeat)
• Apple, Amazon and the uncertain future of the book startup (GigaOm)
• Don’t Trust the Fed’s Weather Report (Bloomberg View)
• U.S. Economy Contracted In First Quarter, Latest Figures Show (Real Time Economics) see also NFIB: Small Business Optimism Index increases in April, Highest since 2007 (Calculated Risk)
• Bernard Mandeville, Psychiatrist in the Marketplace (American Magazine)
• I went to the nutritionists’ annual confab. It was catered by McDonald’s. (MoJo)
• ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald (NY Times)
• Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Streaming Music Service (Re/Code) see also iPad Charger Teardown: Inside Apple’s Charger and a Risky Phony (Ken Shirriff)
• The Polarized Court (The Upshot)

What are you reading?

The Mysterious Death of Entrepreneurship in America

Source: The Atlantic

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