Category: Links

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Mickey Mouse Nation (IndrajitHazra)

The fading red light (Open)

Inside the startup secrets of Y Combinator (VanityFair)

How to buy a daughter (Slate)

Why are Finland’s schools successful (Smithsonian)

Rooked:The evolution of cheating in chess (Grantland)

Playing ping pong in China (GQ)

What Netanyahu doesn’t understand about Obama (TheAtlantic)

Crushing debt drove me to Kosova and Iraq (Billfold)

Book Review:Thinking fast and slow (IDreamBooks)

Movie Review: Raaz 3 (VigilIdiot)

Travelogue: A trip to Bolivia (Ghumakkar)

Review of new cars (VeereshMalik)

Green assassin: My 2012 Kawasaki Ninja (TeamBHP)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

FED Press conference as markets go totally wild (BusinessInsider)

India raises diesel prices to combat deficit (WSJ)

QE-Wheee (BigPicture)

The new rules (TRB)

A simpler way to invest (ValueInvestorIndia)

How do I know that I am invested in the wrong mutual fund? (OneMint)

Timeless advice from Peter Lynch (MarketFolly)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Capt. Gopinath’s new flight plan (BS)

The iron ore conundrum (Mint)

NSE rejigs charges (MoneyControl)

Ray Dalio on Europe (BusinessInsider)

Volatility,correlation and dispersion trades (ClimateerInvesting)

Marketing is dead (HBR)

Valuation Class online (AswathDamodaran)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

VA Tech Wabag a beneficiary of a mega trend (Bloomberg)

Interesting observation on open offers (NeerajMarathe)

Stock talk on Cera Sanityware (SafalNiveshak)

Michael Lewis profile of Barack Obama (VanityFair)

End of alpha spells trouble for fund managers (FT)

John Paulson is the most resourceful fund manager (DealBreaker)

Sensible investors doing boring stuff (Abnormalreturns)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Heavy FII flows since Jan indicate round tripping (ET)

Coal Scandal hinders New Delhi (WSJ)

Rumors swirl as China’s Xi vanishes (FT)

The growing risk of shorting China stocks (FTAlphaville)

The necessity of a college education (Felix)

Ruane,Cunniff and Goldfarb Investor Day (Sequoia)

India’s Diary King leaves behind a better place (Bloomberg)