Thought of the day: By how many billions of dollars retail shareholders will be wealthy if legalized looting by fat cats is outlawed?

• Four lessons to help you be a good investor when it feels like the stock market world is coming to an end, Financial Post
• Sky-high executive pay is damaging capitalism , MoneyWeek
• Why investors keep buying shares that are bad for them, Money Observer
• From 2009: Household saving rate higher in the EU than in the USA despite lower income – Issue number 29/2009, Eurostat
• Cartels are illegal in the U.S but…. How Apple and Big Publishers Pushed E-Books Toward Failure, Bloomberg
• US banks versus the world, FE Trustnet
• Don’t Shut Post Offices—Reinvent Them by Naomi Klein, Common Dreams
• Guns, Drugs, and Car Crashes: Why Americans Die Younger, Bloomberg
• Opinion: No trace of revolution in Cuba, Deutsche Welle
• In Yahoo, Another Example of the Buyback Mirage, NY Times

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