My hearing-free, morning train reads:
• Crypto and Cannabis Are the Perfect Post-Crisis Bubbles (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• How China Systematically Pries Technology From U.S. Companies: Beijing leans on an array of levers to extract intellectual property—sometimes coercively. (Wall Street Journal)
• Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information (Gizmodo)
• What Is Spotify Doing? (Vulture)
• Fancy Bear, the Russian Election Hackers, Have a Nasty New Weapon (Daily Beast)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Peter Conti-Brown, a financial historian and legal scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Conti-Brown studies central banking, financial regulation and public finance, with a particular focus on the history and policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He is the author of “The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve.”
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