Secular Stagnation and Buying Bentleys

(Bloomberg View) -- Hey, it's March! (How did that happen?) Kick off the new month with our artisanal morning train reads:

• Whatever happened to secular stagnation? (Financial Times); see also Love it or Hate It, Globalization Boosts Productivity (Bloomberg)
• What Do You Buy When Trump Wins? A Bentley (Wall Street Journal)
• Fed Can't Do Three Things at Once (Bloomberg Gadfly)
• Buffett Brings Out the Victory Cigar (Morningstar); see also Don't Make a Bar Bet with Warren Buffett (Alpha Architect)
• What We Know About the 92 Million Americans Who Aren't in the Labor Force (Real Time Economics)
• This Is How Your Hyperpartisan Political News Gets Made (BuzzFeed); see also To fight fake news, Facebook should highlight it (Recode)
• Fukishima is worse than ever (Cringely)
• Beto O'Rourke is a Mexico-loving liberal in Texas. Can he really beat Ted Cruz? (Washington Post)
• Earth's Orbiting Junkyard Threatens the Space Economy (Bloomberg)
• I was on the fence about Trump, until I discovered he orders his steak well done with ketchup (Grub Street)

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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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