10 Wednesday AM Reads

October 22, 2014 8:30am by Barry Ritholtz

My morning train reads:

• U.S. Stocks Surge; Nasdaq Up 2.4% (WSJ) but see Hong Kong Stocks Defy Protests to Post World’s Best Gain (Bloomberg)
• Investors Hiring: Mathematicians and Artists Need Apply (Institutional Investor)
• Cassidy: Is the Chinese Economy About to Fall Off a Cliff? (New Yorker) see also The Top 10 U.S. States Where Chinese Are Investing in Real Estate (Real Time Economics)
• A Skeptic’s View of Today’s Investing Religions (AI-CIO)
• 74 Quotes From The Intelligent Investor, Revised Edition (Arbor Investment Planner)
• Enforcer at Treasury Is First Line of Attack Against ISIS (NYT) but see U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS. (Daily Beast)
• Bartlett: Obama Is a Republican: He’s the heir to Richard Nixon, not Saul Alinsky. (The American Conservative)
• Pentagon Views Global Warming as an ‘Immediate’ Security Threat (Mashable)
• You Can Look It Up – The Wikipedia Story: Walter Isaacson recounts the improbable story of the online encyclopedia. (Daily Beast)
• Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant (BBC) see also The Real Cyborgs: Forget wearable tech — “post-humans” are implanting technology in to their bodies and brains. (NYT)

What are you reading?

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