Ritholtz's Reads: Breaking Curses and Channeling Steve Jobs
(Bloomberg View) -- Finish the week strong with the finest morning train reads in the land:
• Authorities Break Up Active Management Cell (Reformed Broker)
•  Bernanke: Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Alan Greenspan (Brookings)
• Bond Traders Aren't Worried About the Election; Should We Listen to Them? (Moneybeat) see also How the Labor Dept. Keeps Its Economic Data Politics-Free (New York Times)
• Gold Might Be Shiny But Base Metals Look Brighter! (All Star Charts)
• Tech Jobs, Cheaper Housing: The New Silicon Cities (Wall Street Journal)
• Slack channels Steve Jobs when calling out Microsoft (Vice) but see Why Slack may live to regret its smarmy letter to Microsoft (Verge)
• The Breaker of Curses: No one is as good at their job as baseball's Theo Epstein is at his (Quartz)
• Otto's Self-Driving Trucks, Autonomous Budweiser Delivery (Trucks.com)
• That viral 2014 Cubs World Series tweet seems too good to be true. That's because it is (Vox) see also How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet (Medium)
• 2017 Porsche Panamera First Drive: The Brand's Best Sedan Yet (Bloomberg)
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