10 Thursday PM Reads

December 4, 2014 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

My afternoon train reads:

• The Red Cross CEO Has Been Serially Misleading About Where Donors’ Dollars Are Going (Pro Publica)
• Why Chasing Hot Stocks Could Burn You (Motley Fool)
• Wealthiest Families Cautioned About Impact-Investing Hype (Businessweek)
• CEOs Manipulate News for Personal Gain, Study Finds (Barron’s)
• Real-Estate Appraisals Are Bubbly Again (Bloomberg View)
• The gas tax has been fixed at 18 cents for two decades. Now would be a great time to raise it (WonkBlog)
• What Caused the Great Depression? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
• Recent Iran airstrikes in Iraq help drive Islamic State from 2 towns (LA Times)
• The FCC wants states to stop killing municipal fiber networks that put cable to shame (BGR) see also AT&T wants to know why a town is building a 1Gbps network when it already offers 6Mbps DSL (BGR)
• The Tricky Ethics of Intergalactic Colonization (Wired)

What are you reading?

Good News Inside the Health Spending Numbers

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