Amazon, Monopoly and Lame-Duck Presidents

(Bloomberg View) -- My July is over already? morning train reads:

• The Mind-Boggling Ascent of Amazon and Jeff Bezos (New York Times); see also This Amazon Threat Just Got Even More Real (Bloomberg Gadfly)
• Active or Passive? Why You Should Use Both (Barron's)
• 30 firms earn half the total profit made by all U.S. public companies (Quartz)
• If everyone is a robo-advisor then no one is a robo-advisor (Reformed Broker)
• Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (BBC)
• Why the Germans Blew It at Dunkirk (Bloomberg View)
• Mark this date: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president (Washington Post)
• How a Ruling on Texas Districts Could Help Reshape Congress (the Upshot)
• Could Football Ever End? A new concussion study provokes more existential worry in the NFL — and, reportedly, an early retirement (Wall Street Journal)
• "The Big Sick" Makes You Wonder: Where Have All the Rom-Coms Gone? (Variety)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with Rich Barton, CEO and co-founder of Zillow, founder of Expedia and co-founder of Glassdoor.

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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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