Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet.com:

• 66% increase in the number of early-stage life sciences firms with less than a year of cash (IDD)
• George Soros on the Crisis & What to Do About It (The New York Review of Books)
• Italy next to bail out banks (Times Online)
• China launches massive fiscal stimulus program (Bloomberg)
• Special report on the future of energy (Forbes)
• Google at 10 - Searching Its Own Soul (NYTimes.com)
• Great Depression memorabilia is a growth industry (BusinessWeek)