Nike Buyers and Instagram Influencers

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

• Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival in $12 Billion Attack (Bloomberg) but see Winning By Changing the Rules of Business (Bloomberg Opinion)
• Economy’s Surge Cuts Uneven Path in Districts (Wall Street Journal)
• What If Trade Wars Boost U.S. Jobs and Stocks? (Yardeni)
• The collapse of ETH is inevitable (TechCrunch)
• The Long Goodbye to Facebook (Om); see also Inauthentic Behavior: Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns (Longreads)
• Why so little has changed since the financial crash (Financial Times)
• Teachers Are Moonlighting as Instagram Influencers to Make Ends Meet (BuzzFeed)
• What Personality Tests Really Deliver (New Yorker)
• The Disproportional Power of Anecdotes (Farnam Street)
• Nearly two-thirds of individuals who wear Nike in the United States are under 35 years old, and are much more racially diverse than the baby boomer population (New York Times)

What are you reading?

The midterm equity boost

Source: Alphaville

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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