Better Bubbles and Black Mondays

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

• Japan’s Back, Baby (Institutional Investor)
• The Crash of ’87, From the Wall Street Players Who Lived It (Bloomberg); see also Echoes of Black Monday (Bloomberg View)
• Why, Oh Why, Can’t We Have a Decent Stock Bubble? (Wall Street Journal)
• Funds That Can Put Your Investments on a Low-Carbon Diet (New York Times); see also Americans are willing to pay $177 a year to avoid climate change (Vox)
• Google is essentially building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join (Recode)
• Why Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid Stood No Chance Against Maria (FiveThirtyEight); see also Send Mitt Romney to Puerto Rico: The island needs an adviser to navigate Washington, Wall Street and an uncertain future. He’s perfect (Slate)
• The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More. (New York Times)
• Electric Car vs. Winter (Mr. Money Mustache); see also Your Next Home Could Run on Batteries (Wall Street Journal)
• One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end (Medium)
• Gravitational Wave Astronomers Hit Mother Lode (Scientific American); see also Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky (Quanta Magazine)

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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