Signatures, Winemakers and Portable Alpha

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

• How to Win a Trade War (FiveThirtyEight) but see To Win a Trade War With China, Don’t Fight It (Politico)
• Why Is Portable Alpha Coming Back? Because It’s Working. (Institutional Investor)
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a hard time answering these 3 questions (Vice); see also Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook (Wired)
• The Free-Trade Malaise (Literary Review of Canada)
• Don’t Blame Amazon for the Retail Apocalypse (Bloomberg View) but see Reports of Retail’s Death Are Premature (Bloomberg View)
• An Art Leveraging a Science (Collaborative Fund)
• The Tricky Business of Measuring Consciousness (Wired); see also The Riddle of Consciousness (CSI)
• Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Home Price Creates a Problem for Startups (Observer)
• Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct (New York Times); see also Truth or dare in credit card signatures (Google Books)
• This Woman Winemaker Is Thriving In a Male-Dominated Industry (BuzzFeed)

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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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