10 Weekend Reads

October 11, 2014 7:00am by Barry Ritholtz

Heckuva a week. Settle into your favorite easy chairs, pour yourself a hot cup-o-joe, and reflect on some of the bigger issues with our longer form weekend reads:

• Can C.E.O. Satya Nadella Save Microsoft? (Vanity Fair)
• Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay (Wired)
• How to Read an Annual Report (Seeking Wisdom)
• Drones and Everything After: The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes (NY Mag)
• How Gary Hart’s Downfall Forever Changed American Politics (NY Times) see also Krugman: In Defense of Obama (Rolling Stone)
• The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears (Ouside)
• The Pitchforks Are Coming…For Us Plutocrats (Politico)
• The Mythology of Dog Years (Priceonomics)
• Jim Harbaugh comfortable in chaos: It isn’t easy being the intense 49ers head coach, and that’s the way he likes it (ESPN)
• Fleetwood Mac’s Mad Hatter: For 50 years, he’s led rock’s most volatile band through drug binges, bankruptcies, affairs, and feuds – and he’s still having the time of his life. (Men’s Journal)

Whats up this weekend?

What the Dollar’s Rise Tells Us About the Global Economy

Source: The Upshot

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