Here is a sneak peek at my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet:
- M&A deals fell 40% in the third quarter (FT)
- There is no credit crunch (Forbes/Fisher)
- China’s groundwater crisis (NY Times)
- Spreadsheets are the real risk in the City of London (Arxiv)
- Microsoft postpones mothballing XP as Vista underperforms (Infoworld)
- U.S. bank collapse is largest in 14 years (Times)
- What might cause gas prices to stop here? (EIA)
- Why does the government pretend prices aren’t rising? (Slate)
- Warren Buffett has been wrongly named as an acquirer seven times this year, and five of those stocks are now lower (Bloomberg)
- BusinessWeek’s list of the most influential people in sports (BusinessWeek)
- Dissecting the quant meltdown (Andrew Lo)
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