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Weekend Mega Linkfest:October 11,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Tesla just announced a supercar (Verge)

How a doctor and a SAC trader got involved in a financial scandal (NewYorker)

What ping pong means in America (Deadspin)

Once a star, a cricketer is now in exile (NYTimes)

How George Clooney exacerbated a crisis in South Sudan (Newsweek)

Hindutva’s head of state (Caravan)

Buy experiences not things (Atlantic)

Jonathan Ive shares 3 lessons he learnt from Steve Jobs (VanityFair)

Maruti Ciaz:The official review (TeamBHP)

Comic:How different parties are fighting Maharashtra elections (UnrealTimes)

Movie Review:Bang Bang (VigilIdiot)

Lebanon’s gathering storm (Project Syndicate)

10 URLs every Google user should know (Labnol)

Jayalalitha:The lone empress (Open)

Will the real Shahid Siddiqui stand up? (Newslaundry)

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Linkfest:Oct 10,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

No pre-Diwali rally now (ET)

Everyone hates e-commerce (Mint)

Preparing for a stronger dollar (Akash Prakash)

The real cost of low airline tickets (BL)

How to identify high dividend yield stocks for long term investment? (MyInvestmentIdeas)

An investing Frankenstein (TRB)

Some companies are the walking dead (Aswath Damodaran)

Bad habits in asset allocation (CIO)

Wild spending signals bubble trouble (Infoworld)

The Hindutva history agenda (Firstpost)

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Linkfest:Oct 09,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Kishore Biyani Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai (FirstBiz)

Taxman’s sword hangs over e-commerce firms (BL)

5 Economic Trends from the IMF forecast for India (Mint)

New delisting,insider trading norms next month (BS)

Amusing real estate experiences (Subramoney)

How small is India’s largest company (Stable Investor)

The Microsoft Empire reboots (VanityFair)

Is the new Bond King a computer? (WSJ)

15 Lessons from 15 Years of blogging (Anil Dash)

All eyes on the Swiss Gold Referendum (Ron Paul)

 

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Linkfest:October 08,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Sivasankaran accused of global land grab (Mint)

Its up,up and away for IT stocks (FE)

How Rohit Nandan is reviving Air India (BS)

Why Amazon is the biggest winner from Flipkart’s debacle (FirstBiz)

The concept of dividend stripping (CapitalMind)

Real Estate investing offers only one outcome-a low return (NYTimes)

International Stock Market Diversification (CommonSense)

Targeting liquidity as an investment style (Swedroe)

Venture Capital and the great big Silicon Valley asshole game (Pando)

6 surprises that greets a Pakistani in India (Dawn)

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Linkfest:October 07,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Despite IPO boom,no party for investment bankers (BL)

Cost of power generation likely to increase by 30% (ET)

NSEL investors want ED to attach all assets of FTIL (FE)

AIA Engineering-The choice of ace stock pickers (RJ)

We are all charlatans (PragCap)

Gross shows risk of star culture (Reuters)

Indians are buying homes in the US (NYTimes)

Paul Graham:Bad startup founders are like old people (VBounded)

Triple your money with pre-IPO investing (DailyReckoning)

How do you know if your fund manager has ‘lost it’ ? (MarketWatch)