Wall Street Porn and a New Economy

(Bloomberg View) -- It's Hurricane Preparedness Week -- kick it off with our morning train reads:

• "Billions" is "Wall Street porn": Why Wall Street can't stop talking about its favorite show (Washington Post)
• My Friend is Beating Me (Irrelevant Investor)
• Best ETFs for Income (Barron's)
• Risky Business (Humble Dollar)
• Data is giving rise to a new economy (the Economist); see also U.S. Productivity May Be Hiding Overseas (Wall Street Journal)
• Economic Cycles Cut Both Ways (Strategy+Business)
• The Health Care Bill Could Be A Job-Killer For GOP Incumbents (FiveThirtyEight)
• Why we only work 4 days a week during summer (Signal v. Noise)
• New Swiss spy found in German tax office (DW)
• The Professor's Bookshelf: Professors share their favorite books (University of Chicago)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with Michael Zezas, Morgan Stanley's chief municipal bond strategist.

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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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