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

NB: ($) denotes subscription site.

 

If demographics are destiny, is the future actually quite bright?

Blog via A Wealth of Common Sense

 

The downside of cars that are more like computers: vulnerability to hackers.

Article via Wall Street Journal ($)

 

Revving up oil fields won’t be  easy.

Article via Wall Street Journal ($)

 

Is Europe’s next crisis Italian banks?

Article via The Economist ($)

 

Andrew Ross Sorkin provides a nice list of the best business/finance books for this summer.  You can bet we’ll be reading a few of them!

Article via New York Times ($)