(Bloomberg View) -- My "We still have an attorney general?" morning train reads:
- The $110 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia is fake news (Brookings)
- Apple's Strengths and Weaknesses (Stratechery); see also Why Apple is struggling to become an artificial-intelligence powerhouse (Washington Post)
- The Bernie Madoff Fraud: Five Lessons for Investors from "The Wizard of Lies" (Advisor Perspectives)
- HBO's "Silicon Valley" tackled an issue that's all too familiar to startups: The threat of frivolous patent litigation (Recode)
- Are shopping malls an endangered species? (USA Today)
- There's no good way to kill a bad idea (Quartz)
- Bad tradecraft: How the Intercept may have outed its own leaker (LA Times)
- The Lawless Presidency (New York Times); see also Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump (Yahoo)
- These Easy-Drinking Craft Beers Will Be Your Best Friends This Summer (Bloomberg)
- Jim Jefferies joins the late-night TV crowd. He'll try not telling too many Trump jokes. (Washington Post)
What are you reading?
Bad News Bears Throw in Towel
Source: Investment Company Institute via Bloomberg Gadfly
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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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