Bubbles, Echo Chambers and Election Hacking

(Bloomberg View) -- My Second City morning train El reads:

• Worried About Your Tax Bill? Hedge-Fund Star John Paulson Owes $1 Billion (Wall Street Journal)
• A Historical Perspective of Market Corrections (FactSet) 
• When Will Volatility Finally Spread? (Macro Tourist); see also How Portfolios Should Get Through This Market Volatility (Bloomberg View)
• Amazon is not a bubble (Alphaville)
• A Newly Powerful Fund Manager (Whom You’ll Rarely Hear About) (Wall Street Journal)
• The Echo Chamber (Of Dollars and Data)
• John Bolton Can’t Be Contained (Foreign Policy)
• Laura Ingraham is a victim of a totalitarian campaign from the left, apparently (the Guardian)
• What We Know And Don’t Know About Election Hacking (FiveThirtyEight)
• This LED Light Will Convince You to Switch From Incandescent Bulbs (Bloomberg)

What are you reading?

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”

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