Peak Pharma, Fixing the Subway and Mars Living

(Bloomberg View) -- My morning train reads:

• Donald Trump Didn't Want to Win -- and Neither Did His Campaign (New York Magazine); see also Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous," Bannon says in explosive book (the Guardian)
• A Hedge-Fund Titan Puts Away the Punch Bowl (Wall Street Journal)
• Amazon shipped more than 5 billion Prime items in 2017 (Quartz)
• How Systematic Internalizers Will Change Trading (Bloomberg)
• Workers in 18 States Get Minimum-Wage Increases (Real Time Economics)
• We Have Reached Peak Pharma. There's Nowhere to Go But Down. (Undark)
• Fashion insiders love this outlaw Instagram account that says everything they're too scared to say (Quartz)
• Why New York crime has plunged to record lows (Christian Science Monitor); see also What Would It Take to Fix New York's Subway? (New York Times)
• John Dean: Nixon "Might Have Survived If There'd Been a Fox News" (Politico)
• My Year on “Mars” (Scientific American)

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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