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The top of today’s reading list reports on highly efficient new cars to come out in 2014 …….. and the last article is a great review of hiking the Appalachian Trail with 68 beautiful pictures.
- 7 Highly Efficient New Cars Slated for 2014 (Justin Lloyd-Miller, Wall St. Cheat Sheet) How about a 50 mpg Honda Accord?
- Republican Extremism and the Lessons of History (Sean Wilentz, Rolling Stone)
- WSJ: Shutdown starting to Hit Private Business (Bill McBride, Calculated Risk)
- The Drudge Headline Indicator (Bespoke Investment Group) A peak in finance news tends to coincide with bottoms in stock market declines. For 41 unusual economic and market indictors see article at Business Insider.
- The Emerging Left in the “Emerging” World: More Threads (Jayati Ghosh, Triple Crisis, 25 September 2013) Jayati Ghosh is a Global Economic Intersection contributor. This is the third of a four part series.
- Book Review: Five Billion Years of Solitude (Michael Lemonick, Scientific American)
- Monthly Premiums for Benchmark Plan by Rating Area (Kansas Health Institute, October 2013) Hat tip to Naked Capitalism. Health insurance premiums under Obamacare for “middle-of-the-road” plans in Kansas for a typical family of four range from $651 to $771 a month, a variation greater than 15%.
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- Crooks, Liars, Idiots and Plutocrats (Matias Vernengo, Triple Crisis, 07 October 2013) Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.
“At first glance, the shutdown of the government and the looming debt-ceiling crisis seem to indicate that we are dealing with idiots, the likes of Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, Steve King, and other Tea Party Republicans. [However,] [c]lass warfare, not stupidity, and the crooks and liars at the top, not the “idiots” in the public spotlight, are the problem.”
- A few feet from failure: why Verizon FiOS in New York is a sad joke (Adrianne Jeffries, The Verge) Hat tip to Roger Erickson.
- Hike The 2,000-Mile Trail That Most People Never Finish (Dina Spector, Business Insider) Great review of the Appalachian Trail in 68 pictures.
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