• Evaluating Germany’s Success in Regulating High-Frequency Trading (RegBlog) Regulate the algorithms, because trying to follow individual trades is like drinking from a firehose.
• The Story of the Self Destruction of Deutsche Bank (Der Spiegel) So much for German probity and virtue.
• West Antarctica Begins to Destabilize With ‘Intense Unbalanced Melting’ (Bloomberg) Anthropogenic climate change hits keep on coming.
• Clinton Foundation: Inurement (Bullsh%$ ist)
• A $72-million apartment project. Top politicians. Unlikely donors. Who wrote the checks to elected officials weighing approval? (Los Angeles Times) Our broken campaign finance system.
• Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run (The Guardian) Thomas Franks notes the venality and arrogance of the Democratic Party leadership.

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