(Bloomberg View) -- The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Costa Rican coffee, grab a comfy seat, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
- Inside the Hunt for Russia's Most Notorious Hacker (Wired)
- Cars and second order consequences (Benedict Evans), see also Bob Lutz, the auto industry's 85-year-old bad boy, goes off on Elon Musk and President Trump (Los Angeles Times)
- Gambling is a feature of capitalism -- not a bug (Prospect)
- ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really Into It (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Trap for a Trader: How did authorities zero in on Tom Hayes, the disheveled, socially awkward mastermind of the Libor scandal? (Wall Street Journal)
- Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too (Nautilus)
- As Seas Around Mar-a-Lago Rise, Trump's Cuts Could Damage Local Climate Work (ProPublica)
- In the Land of Giants: Communing with some of the biggest trees on Earth. (New York Times Magazine)
- Shazam For Mosquitoes: An unexpected call led one scientist to develop an easy way of tracking the animal that endangers more humans than any other. (The Atlantic)
- Why Podcasts Can't Match the Power of Public Broadcasting (New Republic)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Burton Malkiel, author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" and professor emeritus at Princeton University
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Source: Wall Street Journal
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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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