10 Weekend Reads (plus student loans)

It's been a while since I've supplied a weekend reading list and this one looks pretty good, the most interesting picks being an unconventional explanation of market bubbles and an article about the Wall Street detective who goes after corporate fraud, two topics that should be of value to any investor.  There's also a very revealing graphic showing the explosion in student loans over the past ten years.  In my travels I've run across many a soul who believes that loans for college and grad school have gotten considerably more inaccessible in recent years.  This picture shows a very different story.  Hope everyone is enjoying this very pleasant weekend.

10 Weekend Reads

June 24, 2017 7:00am by Barry Ritholtz

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of KickAss coffee, grab a seat by the pool, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:

• Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault (Washington Post) see also The intelligence community report on Russian activities in the 2016 election (Washington Post)
• The Reasonable Formation of Unreasonable Things: An explanation of market bubbles that doesn’t blame greed or incompetence (Collaborative Fund)
• Susan Wojcicki Has Transformed YouTube—But She Isn’t Done Yet (Fast Company)
•  The Bounty Hunter of Wall Street: Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud — and gets rich doing it.   (New York Times)
• From Music to Maps, How Apple’s iPhone Changed Business (Wall Street Journal)
• Be Careful! Your Mind Makes Accidents Inevitable (New Yorker)
• The Scarface of Sex: The Millionaire Playboy Who Murdered His Way to the Top of Porn (Daily Beast)
• What Are We Still Doing in Guantanamo? (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• David Chang: “Almost Everything We’ve Done Has Been a Failure from the Get-go” (Eater)
• My Weekend at a Conference for the Super-Happy (Outside)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Director of the Masters of Business Analytics program at NYU; he is the author of Tap: Unlocking the Mobile Economy.

US Student Loan Explosion
Source: Political Calculations