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The top of today’s reading list reports that foreign investment in the U.S. dwarfs Americsan money going abroad …….. and the last article quotes Madoff: “The banks knew.”
- Foreign Investment in U.S. Dwarfs American Money Going Abroad (Neil Shah, The Wall Street Journal)
- Three-fourths of the world’s English speakers spoke another language first (Lily Kuo, Quartz)
- Metro Areas With Highest And Lowest Well-Being (Huffington Post)
- World Wildlife Fund Testing Drone Surveillance to Save Endangered Elephants (phitran, Appnewser) Hat tip to Russell Huntley.
- Most foreign investment in BRICs isn’t foreign at all—it’s tycoons using tax havens (Naomi Rovnick, Quartz)
- Disconnect: A New Movie Sounds the Alarm About Our Hyper-Connected Lives (Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post)
- Exchange controls, barter, and Cunning Plans (Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative)
- Ten Myths About Alternative Investments (BlackRock)
- Big Money Is Moving To Socially Responsible Investing (Investopedia)
- Madoff points finger at the banks (MarketWatch) Hat tip to Roger Erickson.
