(Bloomberg View) -- My midweek morning train reads:
- Volatility Inc.: Inside Wall Street's $8 Billion Bomb (Bloomberg)
- “Did Someone Fat-Finger This?” (Wall Street Journal)
- Should You Buy Bitcoin? (Project Syndicate)
- What on Earth Happened to Stocks? Here's Where to Cast the Blame (Bloomberg); see also Stock Stumble Isn't a Starting Gun for Hysteria (Bloomberg Gadfly)
- The Stock Market Didn't Get Tested -- You Did (Moneybeat)
- Drivers don't trust Uber. This is how it's trying to win them back. (Recode)
- The effects of 137 minimum wage hikes, in one chart (Wonkblog); see also Someone is wrong on the internet, wages and the stock market edition (FT Alphaville)
- All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses. (Washington Post)
- This new mapping tool shows where neo-Nazi trolls live in the U.S. (Vice)
- Astronomers may have found rogue planets … in another galaxy (Syfy Wire)
What are you reading?
Era of Calm Ends as Volatility Returns to Markets
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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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