(Bloomberg View) -- The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
• Is Amazon getting too big? (Washington Post)
• How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community (Outline)
• The Future of Media is Here, And I Was There (Tablet) see also Former NBC reporter on becoming Lyft driver: ‘I'm doing my dream job' (Columbia Journalism Review)
• How the World's Biggest Buyout Deal Crashed and Burned (Bloomberg)
• A different story from the Middle East: entrepreneurs building an Arab tech economy (MIT Technology Review)
• The Believer: How Stephen Miller went from an obscure Senate aide became Trump's intellectual architect (Politico)
• Is There a Giant Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto? A race is on to discover Planet Nine using classical astronomy and new computational techniques (Spectrum)
• Is The New York Times vs. The Washington Post vs. Trump the Last Great Newspaper War? (Vanity Fair)
• History of the high-five (ESPN)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Richard Clarida, global strategic adviser for Pimco since 2006.
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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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