Following the Money and Making America White Again

(Bloomberg View) -- My midweek morning train reads:

• How to Lose 93 Percent of Your Money … And Be Happy About It (MoneyBeat)
• No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore (Bloomberg View)
• “It’s me, a couple V.C.s and a lot of charlatans.” (New York Times)
• Not Everything Is Expensive If You Know Where to Look (Bloomberg Gadfly); see also Stocks Are Pricey? It Depends (Bloomberg View)
• Follow the Money (Of Dollars And Data)
• The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon: A few technology giants dominate their worlds just as Standard Oil and AT&T once did. Should they be broken up? (Wall Street Journal)
• China's fake data masks economic rebound (Financial Times)
• Cuomo Seeks New York Tax Revisions to Thwart Federal Changes (Bloomberg); see also Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction -- What a Mess! (Agricultural Law and Taxation Blog)
• Trump’s Quest to Make America White Again (Project Syndicate)
• The Takeout’s guide to eating Korean food like a Korean (the Takeout)

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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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