What I'm reading this morning:
- The Athens stock market reopens for the first time in 5 weeks. Contrarian tough guys: step up and be somebody! (MoneyBeat)
- Gold investors contemplate suicide (Wall Street Journal)
- When Jim Grant doesn't have a clue what's going on in gold, nobody does. (MarketWatch)
- Commodity Rout Spurs Worst Resource Currency Meltdown in 7 Years (Bloomberg)
- Chinese stock market authorities find a scapegoat: Citadel (New York Times)
- The guy who's in charge of rescuing the Chinese stock market was a margin account cheerleader six months ago. (Bloomberg)
- China's Dilemma: Is it 1987 or 1929? (Guggenheim Partners)
- Why the end of sideways trading may be at hand - for better or worse (Fat Pitch)
- The return of stockpicking legend Bill Miller (Bloomberg)
- Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook (Mashable)
- Twitter has a billion inactive accounts - will they ever come back to life? (Business Insider)
- Jeff Miller isn't buying the link between commodity trauma and the US economy's condition (Dash of Insight)
- Ed Yardeni on GDP: Sorry, no recession here (Dr. Ed's Blog)
- JC Parets: How I think about opportunity cost (All Star Charts)
- Ritholtz tees off on the prophets of doom (Washington Post)
- Dan Loeb's new buys & Q2 letter (Market Folly)
- Lindzon: "Hedge fund returns blow, the industry is full of thieves and yet money piles in." (Howard Lindzon)
