10 Sunday AM Reads

August 14, 2016 8:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My easy like Sunday morning reads:

• The Blog Post That Led to a Conference (A Wealth of Common Sense)
• Emerging Markets Are Hot—Except for China (WSJ)
•What’s So Significant About Statistical Significance? (Farnam Street)
• “A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment (BuzzFeed)
• A comprehensive guide to the deepening scandal around Roger Ailes and Fox News (Vox) see also Harassment Crisis Builds at Fox News, Despite Its Swift Response (NYT)
• How Much Does Donald Trump Pay in Taxes? It Could Be Zero (NYT)
• It’s time for the government to play hardball with those whining Obamacare insurers (LA Times)
• Driving Tips: How You Can Help Limit Traffic Jams (The Upshot)
• War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable (Rand) see also China takes a gamble in scapegoating the west (Financial Times)
• Laugh.ly wants to put streaming comedy in your hands (Daily Dot)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Michael Mauboussin, head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, adjunct professor at Columbia University’s school of business, and author of Untangling Luck and Skill in Sports, Business and Investing.

Producers have surged on precious metal’s 2016 advance

Source: Bloomberg

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