Readings: Brazil, Decline, Fires, Cities, Chips, Loeb, etc.

A few links from my weekly Weekend Reading column:

• Is the party about to end in Brazil?
• The current ardor for declinism feels overdone 
• Russian troops dig canal around Sarov nuclear base as wildfires grow
• Coffeehouses unplugging Internet access to reconnect with customers
• The world’s least expensive cities in 2010
• Chip industry in midst of boom
• Dan Loeb, You’re Boring Me

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1. The Loeb Wire
2. The Collected Works of Daniel Loeb, Part VI
3. Has Dan Loeb Been Muzzled?
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5. Readings: Deals, Dollar, Brazil, Zynga, Tesla, etc.