A Few Selected Reads From CQR Weekly

Kyle Bass on Japan and Europe

The Benefits of Tax Harvesting

Insights Into the Global Financial Crisis

Profile of Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution:

“With books, Cowen is even more brutal. If a book is bad, he often throws it away, so it doesn’t waste anyone’s time. “What if the next book they were going to read is ‘Moby-Dick’?” But if a book is good, he might give it away — to libraries, friends or, if he’s on a plane, total strangers (he leaves them in the seat-back pocket for the next passenger to discover). “He drives the flight attendants crazy,” his wife says.”