Hot Properties, Money Makers and Softer Stern

(Bloomberg View) -- My Taco Tuesday morning train reads:

• It's an Earnings Gusher So Far (Knowledge Leaders Capital); see also U.S. Tech's Giant Money Machine Is on Full Display This Week (Bloomberg)
• The quiet but substantial successes of Abenomics (Financial Times)
• ETFs Aren't About to Destroy the World (Bloomberg View); see also Don't Let ETF Mania Fool You, There Are Plenty of Bearish Bets in U.S. Stocks (Bloomberg Markets)
• John Paulson's Fall From Hedge Fund Stardom (DealBook)
• High Ground Is Becoming Hot Property as Sea Level Rises (Scientific American); see also Why is The New York Times printing climate science denial? (Syfy Wire)
• Tax Revenues Are Surging, So Brace For A Fed Surprise (Investor's Business Daily)
• The Brain Boasts Its Own Social Network (Scientific American); see also The Brain Has Its Own “Autofill” Function for Speech (Scientific American)
• Upworthy's Quest to Engineer Optimism For An Anxious Age (Wired)
• At Samantha Bee's "White House" Dinner, Journalism Is Toasted as Trump Is Mocked (New York Times); see also A different sort of White House correspondents' dinner (Washington Post)
• The Woman Behind Howard Stern: Marci Turk is credited with making the shock jock just a bit softer as part of his strategy to get celebrity interviews; some fans aren't happy (Wall Street Journal)

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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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