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Ritholtz's Reads: Tax Laws, Robot Rescuers and 1 Percenters

Ritholtz's Reads: Tax Laws, Robot Rescuers and 1 Percenters

(Bloomberg View) -- My tax day morning train reads:

  • No One’s Talking About the New Tax Law (New York Times); see also Why I’m boycotting TurboTax this year (Vox)
  • The Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail (the Atlantic)
  • Facing Historic Labor Shortages, Companies Snap Up Teenagers (Wall Street Journalbut see Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can’t Be Found (New York Times)
  • Zillow, Aggregation and Integration (Stratechery)
  • What to do when we don’t know what to do (New York Times); see also The What-Ifs (Irrelevant Investor)
  • The Price of Free Is Actually Too High (Feld)
  • Facebook’s Days as an Unregulated Monopoly May Be Numbered (Wall Street Journal); see also Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope (Bloomberg)
  • The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards (Medium)
  • Paul Ryan Was a Failure, Even on His Own Terms (New Yorker); see also Paul Ryan’s pathetic legacy (Washington Post)
  • Can the Mets Possibly Be This Good? (FiveThirtyEight)

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Ritholtz's Reads: Tax Laws, Robot Rescuers and 1 Percenters

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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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