10 Weekend Reads - 6-11-16 The Big Picture

Another fascinating Saturday reading list courtesy of Barry Ritholtz and his "The Big Picture" blog on the Wall Street Journal web site.  The one item that caught my eye this weekend is a topic that I've been waiting for a lot more coverage of -- the Flint water crisis not being limited to Flint but actually a nationwide epidemic.  Happy reading and hope everyone is enjoying this very warm summer weekend.

10 Weekend Reads - 6-11-16 The Big Picture

10 Weekend Reads

June 11, 2016 7:30am by Barry Ritholtz

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Costa Rican coffee, settle into your comfiest hanging chair — get ready for our longer form weekend reads:

• How Intel Makes a Chip (Bloomberg)
• The Valeant Meltdown and Wall Street’s Major Drug Problem (Vanity Fair)
• How to Run a Russian Hacking Ring (The Atlantic)
• How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley (New Yorker) see also My Dinner with Peter Thiel: A window into the secret reality of Silicon Valley. (Vanity Fair)
• What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? A new study supports what a small group of military researchers has suspected for decades: that modern warfare destroys the brain. (NYT)
• Holding Hope: On Being a 911 Operator (the Toast)
• Meet The Maserati-Driving Deadhead Lawyer Who Stands Between Hackers And Prison (Buzzfeed)
• When the River Rises: In Texas’s Flash Flood Alley, it takes only a few hours to cause lifelong devastation. (Texas Monthly)
• The Flint of California: A report from Matheny Tract, an arsenic-poisoned community that’s about to become the test case for a new legal idea: the ‘human right to water.’ (Politico) see also The Crisis in Flint Isn’t Over. It’s Everywhere. (Wired)
• The History of Pho (Lucky Peach)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Dr. Ed Yardeni, formerly chief Chief Strategist at Deutsche Bank, now at Yardeni Research.

Source: WSJ