Subject: The new Tesla is great. But is it progress?
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 05:06:10 -0400 (EDT)

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It’s Tesla’s Parade; We're Just Raining on It

Tesla’s Model 3 electric car debuted to rave reviews this month, and we can’t lie — that instrument-free dashboard does look pretty cool. But Tyler Cowen says the hype over a car reveals a problem with Silicon Valley: Too many of its innovations focus on solving old problems, rather than creating something truly new. Meanwhile, Nicholas Colas says that investors’ fixation with Tesla exposes two big blind spots in market sentiment.

Environmental Regulation Makes America Great

Before there was climate-change denialism, there was lead-paint denialism. (Fortunately, those deniers didn’t win.) At a time when the regulatory state is under attack, Francis Wilkinson celebrates the little-heralded rules that have quietly saved countless American lives.

Let HBO Make ‘Confederate’ Before You Judge It

The “Game of Thrones” creators’ next project is so controversial, a protest campaign launched before a single scene was filmed. An open-minded Stephen Carter says a good alternate history can make us re-examine our own era — but he has some cautionary advice for the showrunners, just in case.

Give Los Angeles the Olympics for Good

Or, at least make it one of a few permanent homes for future games. Adam Minter says the IOC could save a lot of time — and everyone would save a lot of money —  by setting up a few permanent bases in Shanghai, Berlin, and, of course, the City of Angels.

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Ritholtz’s Reads

A-Rod’s next chapter is a whole new ballgame: business (Fortune)

What it’s like to do comedy when your dad is a legend (Washington Post)

Netflix is carrying $20 billion in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success? (Los Angeles Times)

(Read Barry Ritholtz’s full daily news roundup here.)

Bloomberg Gadfly

Apple keeps investors waiting

“Lower forever” oil isn’t forever-ever

Pfizer’s new tax obsession shouldn’t paralyze it

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