House-Flipping, Buybacks and the Walkman

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Barry Ritholtz

My midweek morning train reads: • Extreme Makeover: Rich Barton Has A $700 Million Stake In Zillow And Plans To Turn It Into A Home-Flipping Machine (Forbes) • Decline in Share Buybacks Poses a Hurdle for Stock Market: Share repurchases by companies recently contracted for the first time in seven quarters (Wall Street Journal) • Empty Desks and Early Beers: Life at Deutsche Bank in New York (Bloomberg) • The Walkman just turned 40 — here's how listening to music has changed over the years (Business Insider) • Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The? (Eudaimonia) see also The U.S. Labor Market Is Less Healthy Than It Appears (Bloomberg Opinion) • Investors are nuts to think a July interest-rate cut is a slam dunk (Marketwatch) • How a lawsuit could reveal secrets about Silicon Valley's favorite philanthropic loophole: A tax break for the poor created a $110 billion charity stockpile, called donor-advised funds. It isn't getting any smaller. (Recode) • Why plants don't die from cancer (PBS) • Andre Iguodala on the Business of Basketball (New Yorker) • You're Grilling Wrong! Chefs Share What Not to Do Over the Coals (Bloomberg) see also Ready, set, grill: A guide to outdoor cooking (Washington Post) What are you reading? Along Party Lines Source: Statista Want to receive our daily reads in your inbox? Sign up here !

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