(Bloomberg View) -- My 20-percent-tax-rate morning train reads:
- The Global Economy Looks Good for 2018, Unless Somebody Does Something Dumb (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Of Free Brains and Effortless Money (Safal Niveshak)
- Low Returns Are a Feature of Markets, Not a Bug (Bloomberg View)
- Enviros and Developers: A Love Story (Grist)
- The Upside of Being Ruled by the Five Tech Giants (New York Times); see also Tech Goes to Washington (Stratechery)
- Why COOs Should Think Like Behavioral Economists (Harvard Business Review)
- One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week: Bitcoin's surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring (Motherboard)
- 82,000 stolen guns are missing in Florida (Reveal)
- Learning to Spot Fake News: Start With a Gut Check (NPR)
- These are some tweets and Facebook ads Russia used to try and influence the 2016 presidential election (Recode); see also These Are the Russia Ads That Social Media Companies Are Getting Blasted For (Bloomberg)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with John Montgomery, chairman and chief investment officer of Bridgeway Capital Management, which manages $8.4 billion and donates 50 percent of its profits to charity.
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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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