Savings, Salvation, Honesty and Unicorns

(Bloomberg View) -- My from-the-deep-woods-of-Maine morning train reads:

• Americans keep crushing it with their 401(k)s (Bloomberg); see also Saving for retirement in the most tax-efficient manner possible (USA Today)
• An Honest Business News Update (Collaborative Fund)
• Tobacco Investors Just Learned That Trump Isn't the Salvation of Every Odious Industry (Slate)
• Rise of the Portfolio Allocators (Bloomberg Gadfly)
• Stop Bashing the CBO, Republicans (Bloomberg View); see also Supply-Siders Still Push What Doesn't Work (Bloomberg View)
• Angry in America: Ugliness and Truth (Medium)
• Hybrids, Turbos, EVs? Nah, Camry 2.5L Tech Destined For V6, V8 Engines (the Truth About Cars)
• Here's How Unicorns Trick You Into Thinking They're Real (Bloomberg)
• Some Pretty Cool Science Is Gonna Happen During The Eclipse (FiveThirtyEight)
• First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. (Technology Review); see also In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos (New York Times)

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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