For this weekend, a list of current articles courtesy of Mr. Ritholtz.  Of particular interest are the two dissections of the great mortgage industry fraud that triggered the Great Recession.  Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

10 Weekend Reads 5/21/16 - The Big Picture

10 Weekend Reads

May 21, 2016 7:00am by Barry Ritholtz

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Porto Rico Importing Copenhagenblend coffee, settle into your most comfy seat, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:

• What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour (Upshot)
• Meet the Private Company That Has Changed the Face of the World (Fortune)
• Inside Silicon Valley’s Culture of Spin (Fast Company)
• How Information Graphics Reveal Your Brain’s Blind Spots (ProPublica)see also Imagine a dog. Got it? I don’t. Here’s what it’s like to be unable to visualize anything. (Vox)
• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2016 (The Verge)
• Why Americans Ignore the Role of Luck in Everything (NY Mag)
• The Disappearing West (Center for American Progress)
• The Great Foreclosure Fraud: When millions of families lost their homes to foreclosure in the Great Recession, a nurse, a car dealership worker and a forensic expert blew the whistle on mortgage industry abuses. (American Prospect) see also ‘Chain of Title,’ by David Dayen: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud (NYT)
• Taibbi:R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party (Rolling Stone)
• How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature (Literary Hub)