10 Wednesday Afternoon Reads
Here’s what on my Instapaper • Blaming Fannie for Crash Gives Banks Free Pass (Bloomberg) • Foreclosure fraud investigators...
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Attempts to Submarine FCIC Report Backfiring
A DC lawyer type who has reviewed the Oversight Committee’s FCIC report sends along these notes: Barry, I’m sure you’ve seen...
QOTD: Valuation Driven by MegaCaps
Mike Santoli disusses valuation in this weeks Barron’s: “With those earnings coming, the question is whether the market has...
As Goes Italy and Spain, So Goes the Entire EU
~~~ Source: Greece Cannot Be Saved: If Italy and Spain Follow, So Goes the Entire EU, Says Ruparel Stacy Curtin Daily Ticker, July 13,...
Altucher: How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive
James Altucher’s new book How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive looks at the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual aspects of his...
Nature by Numbers
For centuries, artists and architects have used some well-known geometrical and mathematical formulas to guide their work: The Fibonacci...
Mid-Week Morning Reads
Here is some midweek reading: • Martin Wolf: From Italy to the US, utopia vs reality (FT.com) • US Economic Free Lunch (World’s...
With Debut of Google+, Facebook Gets a Rival
Google has launched its new social networking venture, Google+, an online meeting place that WSJ’s Katherine Boehret says has some...