Gold, Tesla and the Making of 'Purple Rain'

(Bloomberg View) -- My midweek morning train reads:

• How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology (the Atlantic)
• The Topic is Gold (Irrelevant Investor)
• Meet the Man Who Is Going to Run Vanguard (Bloomberg View)
• Tesla and Elon Musk’s moment of truth with first mass-market car (Financial Times)
• It’s Time to Go Large in Small-Caps (Barron’s); see also The curious world of micro caps — leveling the playing field (Factor Investor)
• The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills (the Upshot)
• There’s a promising new HIV vaccine candidate in the pipeline (Vox)
• This is what defunding Planned Parenthood looks like (Vice)
• How we made Prince’s "Purple Rain" (the Guardian)

What are you reading?

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”

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