10 Sunday Reads

January 31, 2016 8:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My easy-like-Sunday morning reads:

• Getting Closer to Spotting Recessions (Bloomberg View) see also Which Slumps First, Stocks or the Economy? (Bloomberg)
• No. 1 Stock Over 30 Years? You Will Never Guess (Zweig)
• Meet the ‘Goldbugs’ Hoarding Bullion to Prepare for the Next Financial Apocalypse (Vice)
• How Pensions Will Tackle the Next Crisis (Chief Investment Officer)
• Luntz: Bloomberg can win the presidency (The Hill)
• I worked on Wall Street. I am skeptical Hillary Clinton will rein it in (The Guardian)
• The Sex Machine: Jon Gross is having waaaaay more sex than you. How did this middle-aged New England plumbing-supplies salesman become America’s king of swingers? (Boston)
• An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Popular Mechanics)
• Donald Trump endorses an idea liberals love: letting Medicare negotiate drug prices (Vox) see also Donald Trump’s argument for conservation of public lands is pretty liberal. (New Republic)
• Today on Objectivist House Hunters, we join Jack and Rachel as they search for a new house with their realtor, Ayn Rand. (McSweeney’s)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with real estate expert Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel.

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Source: Bloomberg

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