• Stocks Rise 3%, Leaving S&P 500 Flat on Year (Barron’s) • How Esurance Lost Its Mascot to the Internet (Priceonomics) • One Way to Unrig Stock Trading (NYT) • The Terminal Patient: Is Bloomberg’s Return Good or Bad for Bloomberg? (Spiegel) • As Oil Money Melts, Alaska Mulls First Income Tax in 35 Years (NYT) • Minimum Wage Going Up In 14 States At Start Of 2016 (Huffington Post) • NRA’s Wayne Lapierre Gets Paid ...