Playing With Fire and Saving Your Retirement

(Bloomberg View) -- Our pro-science morning train reads:

• "Silicon Valley" Is Still the Outrageous, Tech Industry-Skewering Show That We Deserve (Daily Beast)
• Grab Your Pitchforks, America, Your 401(K) May Need Defending from Congress (Moneybeat)
• El-Erian: What Markets Should Conclude From France’s Election (Bloomberg View)
• Is this the end of venture capital as we know it? (VentureBeat)
• Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire (New York Times)
• Trump condos worth $250 million pose potential conflict (USA Today)
• Richard Posner: “The Real Corruption Is the Ownership of Congress by the Rich” (ProMarket)
• This Lawsuit Goes to 11: The creators of "This is Spinal Tap," the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. The rock gods are angry. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It. (FiveThirtyEight)
• The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation (New York Times)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with MIT professor Andrew Lo, author of "Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought."

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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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