Slumps, Ancient History and Lying to Facebook

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

• Trump Bump Is Becoming the Trump Slump (New York Times) but see A Good Story Doesn't Make a Great Investment Idea (Bloomberg View)
• The Spotify IPO Playlist (Wall Street Journal)
• The Financial Insecurity Bias (Strategy + Business); see also Why do so many successful people fear being broke? (Rad)
• Rational Markets Theory Keeps Running Into Irrational Humans (Bloomberg View)
• The Great American Single-Family Home Problem (New York Times); see also Here are 10 things the GSEs did to improve access to credit in 2017 (Housing Wire)
• The Ancient History of Bitcoin (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's hardest year, and what comes next (Vox); see also You Weren't Born in 1905? Why People Lie to Facebook (Wall Street Journal)
• What this Silicon Valley VC learned on the "Rust Belt Safari" (Recode)
• The Distant Shores of Mars (Scientific American); see also NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water Than Arctic Ocean (NASA)
• Public Shaming Won't Stop Sinclair (Slate)

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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