10 Weekend Reads

November 29, 2014 8:00am by Barry Ritholtz

How are you been surviving the holiday weekend? Enjoying time with family I hope? Our some rich dark Joe, and settle into your favorite chair for our longer form weekend reads!

• The Downside of the Boom: North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances. (NYT)
• A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Enterprise Tech)
• How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire (Mental Floss)
• How to Get Away with Uber (Matter) see also How Uber Is Changing Night Life in Los Angeles (NYT)
• How Marine Salvage Master Nick Sloane Refloated Costa Concordia (Vanity Fair)
• At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert (Washington Post)
• The Secret Life of Passwords (NYT Mag)
• ‘God is not a magician’: Pope says Christians should believe in evolution and Big Bang (Raw Story)
• Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We’re 100% Sure It’s Maybe Totally for Real) (GQ)
• An Oral History of the Epic Space Film The Right Stuff (Wired)

Check out Masters in Business this weekend — our guest is Lakshman Achuthan of ECRI on Bloomberg.com and iTunes.

U.S. Shale Oil Production Surges; Lower-Cost Plays Lead Growth

Source: BCA Research, Commodity and Energy Strategy

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