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July 8, 2007

Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading

Here is a sneak peek at my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet/RealMoney:

• Canadian tar sands production is growing, but it's a lot tougher going than Venezuela (Reuters)
  
• Albert Frere gets Henry Kravitz's nod as investor extraordinaire (Bloomberg)
  
• Wider Middle East war warned of by historian Niall Ferguson in discussion how an early economic boomed ended (Economist)
  
• Live Earth set record with nine-million Internet video streams -- but 300-million archived streams expected in coming weeks (Reuters/MSN)
• Useful primer on the new science of synthetic biology (NY Times)
  
• Clever post-iPhone-teardown detective work being done to find hidden suppliers (EETimes)
  
• This year's E3 gaming technology conference has shrunk attendees by 95% (Reuters)
  
• New ways to engage in insider trading has created a burgeoning business (Bloomberg Markets)
  
• KKR may be suffering from asset bloat: Too much money and too few places to put it (Bloomberg)
  
• Many bubble-fearing investors are only now looking at equities (L.A. Times)
  
• Testostorone-rich men make strange money decisions (Economist)
  
• More than half of the top 20 rising hedge funds stars are in the U.S. (FT)
  
• Profile of Asia's godfathers of business: tycoons whose lives revolve around golf, massage, and money (Times)
  
• Frequent business travelers want separate family-only sections (Maritz Research)
  

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