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Speaking of newspapers, Felix Salmon defends Alfonso Serrono interesting idea for ownership of the New York Times (or any paper):

Personally, I think this is a really good idea: give every print subscriber one Class B voting share of NYT stock, and then give them one more share every three months thereafter, assuming their subscription is still in good standing. The securities would automatically convert to Class A shares if they were sold or transferred, or if the subscriber let his subscription lapse.

(via Snarkmarket)

Harriet Rubin takes a look — I’d like to say hard-hitting, but it hardly feels accurate — at sexual inequality in the workplace. Then, perhaps, this is the reason for it’s squishiness:

This has been the hardest assignment I have ever had. For more than a decade, I’ve covered gender and power in the business world. I’ve analyzed heroes and villains, sinners and saints, and the rest of us in between. I’ve never had so much trouble getting people to talk to me. Nobody really wanted to get into it. Not even the people who would seem to have the most to say. In fact, those people especially would rather not mention it at all.

(via Slate)

Portfolio has a pretty neat showcase of the five dollar bill through history, including the newest iteration. They also have some of those compulsary notes about its security features.

(via Daring Fireball)

Portfolio has an interesting piece about the state of property rights in China. Though I think Mr. Kurlantzick may be overreaching in suggesting revolution, how few rights people have is mildly jarring to American sensibilities.

Very few of the evictions in China would qualify as legal in other countries, and even in China the legality is murky. Because the state technically owns all urban land and the average Chinese citizen simply owns the right to live on the land for a time, government officials have massive leverage on homeowners and can force them to leave their property without paying much—if anything—in compensation.