Musings from the CU Suite

Compiled by Anthony Demangone

The Gang O'Gones are headed to a family pig-roast this weekend in Pennsylvania. It reminds me of the first time Kate and Briggs first saw a pig roast in all its glory.

Briggs: (Looks on in a mixture of horror and disgust.)

Kate:  (Turns an looks at me.) We get to eat that, right? 

And with that, here's the best of this week's reading pile. 

• Wells Fargo employees fraudulently opened 1.5 million deposit accounts and submitted half-a-million bogus credit card applications without customer consent. Unbelievable. (The Atlantic) I spent about an hour on Twitter; Wells Fargo was getting slammed by its customers...and everyone else.
  
  
  
• And a related post...People do almost exactly what they are incentivized to do. (TRB)
• Bank of America is bullish on the American Consumer. (Business Insider)
• Here's a fascinating story on innovation. The new technologies that change the world usually go unnoticed when first developed. It takes roughly 30 years for society to integrate them. (CollaborativeFund)
• Humility with a touch of awe. In a complicated world, it might be better to admit what you don't understand and focus on what you can control. (TonyIsola.com)
• The job market is getting very tight. Very, very tight. (Bloomberg)
• The number of "unbanked" Americans is falling. (NAFCU Today)
• Electric cars will be here sooner than you think. (WSJ)
• Developers are flocking to "blockchain" boot camps. (Bloomberg)
• Why do we teach so much certainty in a world with so little of it? (Godin)
• Judges are harsher when their football team loses. (WashPost)
• 12 jobs that are disappearing fastest. (BI)
• Wall Street re-engineers the CD. And consumers are confused and upset. (WSJ)
• The August jobs report in 15 charts. (WSJ)
• GE just spent $1.4 billion to snatch up 2 3-D printing companies. (BI)

Have a good weekend, everyone!