Happy St. Paddy's Day everyone!  That's all I have for you tonight except that tonight's posting from The Big Picture contains a number of very interesting articles including the inside story of Uber infighting and the real story behind why the ultra rich become ultra philanthropists.  Still celebrating with the Irish as I write this so see y'all tomorrow night with the week's summation. 



Sat 3-17-18 10 Weekend Reads - The Big Picture

10 Weekend Reads

March 17, 2018 7:30am by Barry Ritholtz

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Peet’s coffee, grab a seat on the aisle, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:

• The Takedown of Travis Kalanick: The untold story of Uber’s infighting, backstabbing, and multi-million-dollar exit packages (Business Insider)
• How Conservative Activists Catfished Twitter (Gizmodo) see also New Project Veritas Dossier Compiles Photos of James O’Keefe’s Known Associates (The Intercept)
• China Is Turning Ethiopia Into a Giant Fast-Fashion Factory (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The Billionaire Philanthropist: It is an American tradition for CEOs to stockpile their wealth, avoid taxes, then in their later years, participate in the theater of giving. Will Jeff Bezos make it scale? (Longreads)
• Can teams can be more productive by killing 8-hour workday? (Teambit)
• The Last Temptation: How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory (The Atlantic)
• Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country (The Guardian)
• Heredity Beyond the Gene (Nautilus)
• The Music of the Beatles (New York Review of Books)
• Ichiro’s return to Seattle won’t resolve the battle raging within him (ESPN)