A Brand-New Ballgame and Borrowing for Success

(Bloomberg View) -- My it's August already? morning train reads:

• Driving Tesla's Model 3 Changes Everything (Bloomberg); see also 5 unusual features in the Tesla Model 3, including an instrument-free dash (Los Angeles Times)
• A-Rod's Next Chapter Is a Whole New Ballgame: Business (Fortune)
• Greenspan sets off alarm bells about what may come for bonds and equities (Bloomberg) but see Celebrating Greenspan's Legacy of Failure (Bloomberg View)
• Amazon's name pops up on 10 percent of U.S. earnings conference calls (Venture Beat)
• Private Equity Doesn't Deserve Its Bad Reputation (Bloomberg View) but see Why Private Equity Really Is Capitalism at Its Worst (Rolling Stone)
• Netflix is carrying $20 billion in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success? (Los Angeles Times)
• Putin's Bet on a Trump Presidency Backfires Spectacularly (New York Times); see also Realism on Russia: We must investigate claims of Russian interference in the election, while also de-escalating a dangerous crisis. (the Nation)
• Trying To Fix A Huge Problem In Science: The results of too many scientific studies aren't standing up to scrutiny. A group of scientists think they can change that (BuzzFeed)
• What it's like to do comedy when your dad is a legend (Washington Post); see also Searching for the punchline in the covfefe era (California Sunday)
• 10 Things We Learned From Dr. Dre/Jimmy Iovine Doc "The Defiant Ones" (Rolling Stone)

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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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