Here Are Links for Your Weekend Reading

Energy Policy and Green Energy have been in the news recently.  Here is a cartoon poking fun at the situation.  It's called "Feeding the Federal Furnace."

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• The Five Stages of Strategic Grief. (HBR)
• Reid Hoffman's 10 Rules for Entrepreneurial Success. (Entrepreneur)
• 6 Surprising Things Social Media Can Predict. Why to mine social media. (TheWeek)
• Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France. (WashingtonPost)
• DataViz Tool Shows You Gaping Holes In Your Password Security.  Scary Cool. (FastCo)

Trading Links:

• Everything That's Wrong With the Economy in 1 PowerPoint Slide. (TheStreet)
• Central Banks' $9 Trillion Is Global Economic Lifeline. (USAToday)
• Bye-Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution. (RobertReich)
• School for Quants: Learning to Calculate Our Future. (FT)
• Amazon Faces Taxing Times. After losing the battle to avoid collecting sales taxes, investors may learn why it fought so hard for so long. (WSJ)