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The top of today’s reading list describes the frustration facing anyone who is hoping for meaningful financial regulation …….. and the last article is a list of the 10 worst places to retire.
- He Who Makes the Rules (Haley Sweetland Edwards, Washington Monthly) Hat tips to Roger Erickson and Dan Gay. Lengthy article, but pure dynamite!!! If you ever hope to understand the uphill battle for proper regulation, you need to read this.
- Windows: It’s Over (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet) Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture.
- City Settles Lawsuit Over the Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library (Nick Pinto, The Village Voice, 09 April 2013) Hat tip to Roger Erickson.
- The Apple Inc Crash (readtheticker, 18 April 2013). Classic bubble pattern.
- The Great Debt Delusion: How Math Keeps Proving Austerity Wrong (Matthew O’Brien, The Atlantic)
- How America Can Beat Deflation, NYC Style (Joshua Brown, The Reformed Broker, 16 April 2013)
- The Next Bank Meltdown Will Be No Accident (Shah Gilani, Wall Street Insights & Indictments, 18 April 2013) Shah Gilani is a Global Economic Intersection contributor, most recently Bail-ins, Magic Wands, and Con Men.
- Scientists decode DNA of “living fossil” fish (Malcom Ritter, R&D Mag) “…the lungfish, is the closest living fish relative of animals with limbs, like mammals, but they said the lungfish genome is too big to decode.” Have some genomes become simpler (smaller) over time?
- 15 Best Investing Quotes of All Time (Ron Pechtimaldjian, AdvisorOne)
- 10 worst places to retire (Emily Brandon, MSN Money)