Some offbeat Sunday reads:
The true story of how Mitt Romney made his millions (RollingStone)
Who wears the pants in this economy? (NYTimes)
Car Review: A close look at Renault Scala (TeamBHP)
Travelogue: Lovedale to Ketty walk by the rails (Ghumakkar)
Book Review:LBJ in the Presidency (IDreamBooks)
10 Signs Mumbai is going to the dogs (MumbaiBoss)
A trip to India for total silence (MensJournal)
Some interesting reads for the weekend:
Shafting the truth (IndrajtHazra)
Disillusioned Kashmiri militants return to India (Caravan)
Assam:Why this hot wind blows (Tehelka)
The seer of Pakistan (NewYorker)
Berezovsky Vs Abramovich (Economist)
Rebranding Amsterdam (Smithsonian)
Thomas Kuhn:the man who changed the way the world looked at science (Guardian)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
Novak Djokovic and the art of patient investing (SafalNiveshak)
The JP Associates FCCB issue (CapitalMind)
Backtests aint worth the pixels they are written on (MarketSci)
Howard Lindzon 12 rules to invest and enjoy (TRB)
The unintended consequences of QE (FTAlphaville)
What became of Midas’s sons? (CassandraDoesTokyo)
Valuing the iPhone franchise (AswathDamodaran)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
We pay 400000 Crores in bribe taxes every year (FirstPost)
A bandh for opening Vedanta’s Odisha refinery (BS)
Drug makers may have to tweak domestic business model (Mint)
Why are we obsessed with saving taxes? (OneMint)
Put Uruguay on your shortlist (DailyReckoning)
DE Shaw geniuses build their greatest model (DealBreaker)
5 Reasons you deserve to lose every penny in the market (BCLund)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
National Pension Scheme & Taxation at maturity (Anand)
Applying behavioral finance to value investing (SafalNiveshak)
In slowing India, a fast growing star (WSJ)
HDFC warrant holders reap a windfall (ET)
Notes from the John Paulson crowd (TRB)
We are all anarchists now (DailyReckoning)
China,dollar,gold and a theory of relativity (FT)