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What We’re Reading – Week of 01/04/2019

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week.

NB: ($) denotes subscription site.

 

Mutual funds go activist.

Article via Wall Street Journal ($)

 

Will the rise of China as an economic superpower prove to be a disappointment like Japan was in the 1980s?

Article via Financial Times ($)

 

Fracking’s “secret” problem: oil wells aren’t producing as much as they were supposed to.

Article via Wall Street Journal ($)

 

Bloomberg lays out almost everything Wall Street expects for 2019.  These predictions will mostly not come true, but it helps to know what people are expecting.

Article via Bloomberg