What We Read Today 04 June 2013

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The top of today’s reading list is about safety of recreational marijuana  …….. and the last article is about government policies are increasing inequality.

• How Safe Is Recreational Marijuana? (Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American)

• How Disaster Aid Recipients Voted on Sandy Relief (Al Shaw and Jeff Larson, Propublica)

• Nanotechnology stops bed bugs in their tracks (R&D)

• With Job Candidates Lacking Skills, Wall Street Turns to Boot Camps (Greg MacSweeney, Wall Street & Technology)  Despite spending $100,000 on an education, graduates still need to take spreadsheet analysis courses. Shouldn’t schools teach students how to use a fundamental business tool?

• UBS to Hang Up ETNs for (Among Other Things) Internet Stocks and Solid State Drives (Brendan Conway, Barron’s)  Hat tip to Deborah Fuhr.  A note on why you should be cautious about investing in thinly traded ETF/ETN vehicles.

• Structural Change In The Credit Markets (Sean Owens, Advanced Trading)  An 80-ton boulder that has only started to roll.

• Justice for All or Justice for Sale? James S. Henry, Esq., The American Interest)  Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.

• Britain’s Search for a Post-Hegemonic Identity (Immanuel Wallerstein,  Agence Global)  Hat tips to Roger Erickson and Chuck Spinney.

• Brazil faces 1970s stagflation as resource boom wilts (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph)

• Inequality Rising — All Thanks To Government Policies (David Cay Johnson, The National Memo, 31 May 2013)  Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.   David Cay Johnson has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.