A little weekend reading...
Written by Anthony Demangone
Here's the best from this week's reading pile. I hope spring has sprung where you are. Â The flowers are certainly out in my neck of the woods.
- Bank of America to pay more than $700 million for deceptive practices. (NAFCU Today.)
- For NCUA, transparency should be the hallmark. (CU Times.)
- NCUA's McKenna tells House NCUA is focused on reg relief. NAFCU begs to differ. (CU Journal.)
- Sacre bleu! France's worker's union moves to stop emails after 6 p.m. (Fast Company.)
- Amazon's annual shareholder letter is out. They actually offer to pay certain workers $5,000 if they quit their jobs. (Business Insider.)
- Too much noise. (Bloomberg.)
- Jamie Dimon lists what is going right and wrong in America. He points to over-regulation as a huge problem. Mr. Dimon, I quite agree. (Business Insider.)
- A social media heads up...Katherine Heigl sues store for $6 million for tweeting paparazzi photo. (Business Insider.)Â
- The jobs recovery. Almost there...but the graph is still terrifying. (The Big Picture.)
- Something amazing just happened in the solar industry. (Business Insider.)
- Weekly unemployment claims dip to lowest level since 2007. So why doesn't this recovery seem better? (Calculated Risk.)
- Swedish city testing a six-hour workday. (Entrepreneur.)
- The Dodd Frank effect: Too small to succeed. (WSJ.)
- The most amazing NASA satellite photo of earth. (I lived on the island third from the right for a year.) (Business Insider.)
- Ugh. This is where Americans think the Ukraine is located. (Business Insider.)
- Ugh again. Few Americans could come up with $2,000 if an emergency popped up. (Business Insider.)
 Have a great weekend, everyone.Â
