Readings: Yuan, ETFs, Energy, California, Smil, etc.

A few links from my weekly Weekend Reading column:

• China’s new yuan regime to look a lot like old one
• Shale and the next energy investment fever 
• How ETFs could end the (financial) world
• Home of the Week: Rancho Mirage villa with its own golf course
• California on ‘verge of system failure’
• Cost of China car plates drops
• The man who’s tutoring Bill Gates
• Hedge fund friend goes to the WSOP

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