Weekend Reading

Links for the Week ending Feb-06, 2011

Here are some of the better reads from the past week.

• Relative Strength 101 (CSS Analytics)
• The misunderstood side of value investing (The Globe and Mail)
• When Irish Eyes are Crying by Michael Lewis (Vanity Fair)
• Ledgermath (Boston Review)
• Bernanke Takes Credit for Stocks’ Rally, Disavows Commodities’ Rise (Barron’s)
• Financial Models Must Be Clean and Simple (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Succinct Summation of Week’s Events (The Big Picture)
• Rethinking Stocks for the Long Haul (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code (Wired Magazine)
• The art of good writing (Financial Times)
• Why Egypt’s popular rebellion is the greatest historical event in a decade, and how Barack Obama missed the boat. (Canonical.org)
• How to Become a Philosopher: A Beginner’s Guide (WSJ)
• Pascal Bruckner: ‘Happiness is a moment of grace’ (The Guardian)
• Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt (The Washington Post)