More Equifax Horrors and an Escalating Crisis

(Bloomberg View) -- My morning hotel reads:

• Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud. Then Dad's Fixer Stepped In (ProPublica)
• Ford Needs Less McKinsey and More Mustang (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Skills vs. Behavior (Collaborative Fund)
• Nope, Hedge Funds Are Still in the Dumper (Bloomberg Gadfly)
• 6 Fresh Horrors From the Equifax CEO's Congressional Hearing (Wired)
• Las Vegas was the year's 7th mass shooting — or maybe the 337th (Vice); see also Mass Shootings in the U.S. (New York Times)
• Russia Targets NATO Soldier Smartphones: Moscow seeks information on operations and troop strength, according to officials with NATO countries. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Unequal Burden of Rising Temperatures: How Can Low-Income Countries Cope? (IMF)
• Is Netflix Hurting Stand-Up? (Vulture)
• In Pictures: Catalonia's Independence Crisis Escalates (Bloomberg)

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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