Bets, Wine Battles and the Perfect Blogger

(Bloomberg View) -- My Star Wars Day morning train reads:

• Silicon Valley's Erlich Bachman: Capitalist Hero (National Review)
• How Microsoft Jumped on Apple's Laptop Stumbles (Bloomberg)
• Investors Have a Contradiction Addiction (Teachable Moment)
• Why I Lost My Bet With Warren Buffett (Bloomberg View)
• Is U.S. productivity (finally) perking up? (Financial Times)
• Obama's Legacy: A Retirement Rule That Is Tough to Kill (Wall Street Journal)
• Harari: The Mozart in the Machine (Bloomberg View)
• Over 10 years, Martha Stewart has quietly become the perfect blogger (the Verge)
• The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election (FiveThirtyEight)
• The wine industry's battle with climate change (High Country News); see also On Climate, Uncertainty Is Not the Same as Agnosticism (Real Time Economics)

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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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