Mnuchin and Cohn, Bad Salesmen

(Bloomberg View) -- My midweek morning train reads:

• Is the gig economy the modern-day sweatshop? (Dare to Dream Beyond)
• 22 timeless lessons for our 22nd month (Yet Another Value Blog)
• U.S. household equity ownership is at near-record levels. Is that a worry? (MarketWatch)
• Why Steve Mnuchin and Gary Cohn Are So Bad at Selling Trump's Tax Plan (Slate)
• The Permian Basin Still Has an Awful Lot of Oil (Bloomberg View)
• Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is? (New York Magazine)
• Apple Music's Long Game: Why Jimmy Iovine Thinks They're "Not Even Close" to Success With Streaming (Billboard)
• Debt Keeps Rising and Nothing Bad Happens (Bloomberg View)
• Las Vegas: The harvest of unspeakably lax gun laws (Los Angeles Times); see also Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence (PRI)
• Bold Eagles: Angry Birds Are Ripping $80,000 Drones Out of the Sky (Wall Street Journal)

What are you reading? 

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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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