(Bloomberg View) -- My end-of-week, jobs day morning train reads:
- Why Pay Is Lagging in a Tight Job Market (New York Times); see also Half of new jobs were created in these five states (MarketWatch)
- How GE Went From American Icon to Astonishing Mess (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Does Abenomics make Japan the market to buy now? (MoneyWeek)
- World's Asset Owners Discuss ESG Investment Plans at United Nations (Chief Investment Officer)
- How Amazon Rebuilt Itself Around Artificial Intelligence (Wired); see also What Amazon Does to Poor Cities (the Atlantic)
- When Mental Models Fail (Wealth of Common Sense)
- Why Don't People Want to Buy Manhattan's Spectacular Mansions? (Bloomberg)
- Letter of Recommendation: Rodney Dangerfield (New York Times)
- “Unprecedented”: Nine historians on why Trump's war with the FBI is so stunning (Vox); see also Biggest questions about the Nunes memo, answered (Vox)
- The One Patriots Stat That Eagles Fans Probably Don't Want to Hear (FiveThirtyEight)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Constance Hunter, chief economist of KPMG LLP. She is a past board member of the National Association for Business Economics and a member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds.
Amazon posted a record $1.9 billion profit during the holidays
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