A few links from my weekly Weekend Reading column at TheStreet:
- The Swap Contracts That Swallowed Your Town (NYT)
- The re-rise of Steve Cohen and his SAC (Bloomberg)
- Dot-com bust ripples still felt 10 years later (S.F. Chronicle)
- Social spending around the world (OECD)
- On the ease of overstating the fiscal stimulus in the US, 2008-9 (NBER)
- Is It Real, or Is It Randomized?: A Financial Turing Test (arXiv)
- Germans to debt-ridden Greeks: Sell the Acropolis. And a few islands. (CSMonitor)
- Flinty truths for California (FT)
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