This Article Contains NO Offensive Tweets - Weekly Reading List - October 20th, 2017

We live in delicate times ...

Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week. Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits. Let me know if you read something I'd like ... Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading. Thanks.

Lighter Links:

If I Only Had a Brain: How AI Thinks. (TheDailyBeast) Psychologists Found that the Way We React to Good News Reveals a Lot about Us. (Business Insider) Concert Industry Rethinks Security after Las Vegas. (WSJ) Roughly 13 Million Watched Opening of Burns' Vietnam War Doc. (AP) The Physiology behind Generalized Anxiety Disorder. (LaughingSquid) Six Nobel Prizes What's the Fascination with the Fruit Fly?(TheGuardian) The Philosophy of Fly-Fishing. (TheParisReview) How Ether Transformed Surgery from a Race against the Clock.(Scientific American) The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good. (NeuroLogica) The Very Drugged Nazis. (NYBooks) What One Photo Tells Us about North Korea's Nuclear Program.(NYTimes) Calling a Cruise Ship Home: See the World, Then See It Again. (NYT One in Every 137 Teenagers Would Identify as Transgender, Report Says. (New York Times) Creepy ... But Impressive Facial Recognition Software is Going to the next Level. (Salon) Frank Sinatra Does Not Move Pianos. (StevenPressfield) The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster. (MotherBoard) How Nature Created Consciousness and Our Brains Became Minds.(NewStatesman) How Peter Thiel's Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World.(TheIntercept) Fox Apologizes for Thinking that Planting Fake News is a Clever Marketing Plan. (HuffPo) AI Learns to Write Its Own Code by Stealing from Other Programs.(NewScientist)

Market-Related Links

Markets: What's Brewing Beneath the Surface. (UBS) A Proven Way to Avoid Bear Markets. (SeekingAlpha) Masayoshi Son's Grand Plan for SoftBank's $100 Billion Vision Fund.(NYT) US Inflation Figures Set to Set Market Tone at Week's End. (AP News) Official: Irma Was 'Lethal' for Florida Citrus, Other Crops. (APN) Opinion: Five Things to Do When Every Investment is Too Expensive. (MarketWatch) Market Crash? 5 Picks that Took Less Than 12 Months to Get Back on Their Feet in 2008. (SeekingAlpha) Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are Pitching a Way to Profit from the next Financial Collapse. (BusinessInsider) Keep Calm and Stay Invested, Says JP Morgan. (AFR) Chinese Firms Rush to Hedge as Yuan Swings Begin to Sting.(Investing) IKEA Stores' Full-year Sales up 5 Percent to $44.9 Billion.(FoxBusiness) Hedge Funds' Bearish Bets on FTSE 250 Hit Multi-year High.(Fnlondon) The Biggest Problem in a Market Where Everything is Expensive. (BusinessInsider) The Real Reason Trump is So Dead Set On Crushing Obamacare.(CNN) Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler May Have Added $29.6 Billion to Retirement Accounts. (MarketWatch) Why Richard Thaler Matters to Investors. (Wall Street Journal) The Best Books on Rethinking Economics. (FiveBooks) JPMorgan and Singapore's Wealth Fund Lead $100 Million Investment in Silicon Valley Fintech. (BusinessInsider) Prepare for the Macro Trends Reshaping the Banking Industry. (TheFinancialBrand)  VIX and Trend-Following, the Killer Combo? (AlphaArchitect)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard