(Bloomberg View) -- Back to work with our morning train reads:
- How the Bear Stearns Meltdown Wrecked Something More Valuable Than Money (MoneyBeat); see also The 27 scariest moments of the financial crisis (Business Insider)
- How vulture capitalists ate Toys ‘R’ Us (the Week)
- The Most Important Investors of All Time (Irrelevant Investor)
- Why Wikipedia Works (New York Magazine)
- “She’s a Criminal Who Should Be in Prison”: V.C.s Trash Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos and Its Shareholders (Vanity Fair)
- Ironies of Luck (Collaborative Fund)
- Scott Walker, Foxconn and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (Center for Economic and Policy Research)
- I went to prison for disclosing the CIA’s torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up. (Washington Post)
- Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History (the Atlantic)
- How Nixon Would Have Tweeted Watergate (Politico)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with Lazard Asset Management LLC’s James Donald, managing director and head of the emerging markets group. In 2017, Lazard’s team was named SMA Manager of the Year in the global and international category.
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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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