Beautiful Minds and Inflation Predictors
(Bloomberg View) -- Welcome to our Taco Tuesday morning train reads:
- The Golden Age of Hedge Funds (CFA Institute); see also How a $26 Billion Hedge Fund Lures the Beautiful Minds (Bloomberg)
- Who Wins as Fee Wars Escalate? (Barron's)
- Everything the Market Thinks About Inflation Might Be Wrong (Wall Street Journal); see also The Fed's Favorite Inflation Predictors Aren't Very Predictive (FiveThirtyEight)
- A Guide to Reading for Investors (Safal Niveshak)
- Barron's Top 1,200 Financial Advisors (Barron's) but see Does Barron's really have a bead on the best financial advisors in America? (RIA Biz)
- These are the 10 breakthrough technologies you need to know about right now (MIT Technology Review)
- Netflix Preps Reality TV Push: Rivals “Should Be Scared Out of Their Minds” (Hollywood Reporter); see also Netflix is releasing a stand-up comedy special each week for the rest of 2017 (the Verge)
- How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide (New York Times)
- China Premier Pledges: “We Will Make Our Skies Blue Again” (U.S. News) but see Photos reveal how polluted the U.S. was before EPA was founded (Green Car Reports)
- A new form of matter: scientists create the first supersolid (Cosmos)
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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