10 Weekend Reads -- 2/25/17

Since I have now returned to daily postings on this Marias blog, I will return to the tradition I established a couple years ago of filling in the weekends with snippets of wisdom from my favorite financial writer, Barry Ritholtz of "The Big Picture," a column he publishes in both the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.  One thing he does every week is cull all the most fascinating and pithy articles of that given week and then grace us with a brief reading list every weekend.  I begin that tradition again so below please find this weekend's list of good reads courtesy of Mr. Ritholtz.

10 Weekend Reads

February 25, 2017 7:00am by Barry Ritholtz

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat in the sun, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:

• End of a golden age: Unprecedented growth marked the era from 1948 to 1973. 

It can never be repeated. Why? (Aeon)
• Warren Buffett’s Best Investment (Gates Notes)
• A Smoother Path to Outperformance with Multi-Factor Smart Beta Investing (Research Affiliates)
• Mars Madness: The DIY explorers who dream of a 35-million-mile trek (California Sunday)
• Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (New Yorker)
• The True Story of the Comey Letter Debacle (Vanity Fair)
• The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS (The Atlantic)
• Who Is Guy Fieri? (Vice)
• Meet Shohei Otani, the next Babe Ruth (Sportsnet)
• The jellyfish are coming. Brace yourself for goomageddon (The Correspondent)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs, author of numerous NYT bestsellers, most recently, Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable.