10 Thursday Reads - Stock-market crash of 2016, facebook conspiracy, the 20 Best Investing Blogs and more

• Can stocks rise in spite of weak earnings growth? (SKrisiloff)
• What is Google’s Market Share for Search? (Priceonomics) see also YouTube: 1 Billion Viewers, No Profit (WSJ)
• On Scarcity (TRB)
• New-Home Sales Are Surging. Why Aren’t Existing Homes As Hot? (Real Time Economics) see also America’s Fixer-Upper Housing Market (WSJ)
• The Popular (But Risky) Habit Of Cherry-Picking Economic Data For Business-Cycle Analysis (The Capital Spectator)
• Stock-market crash of 2016: The countdown begins (MarketWatch) But see Pundits Predicting ‘Crisis’ and ‘Crash’ Deserve Our Haughty Laughter (RCM)
• Facebook conspiracy theorists fooled by even the most obvious anti-science trolling: study (Raw Story)
• Margins might be the worst argument against the Apple Car (Vox) see also Secret to the Apple Car Is the Battery (Bloomberg View)
• Gov. Christie Shifted Pension Cash to Wall Street, Costing New Jersey Taxpayers $3.8 Billion (IB Times)
• The 20 Best Investing Blogs of 2015 (College Investor)

What are you reading?