Financial and other news - Week of May 7, 2016

What We've Been Reading (and Watching) 
BY Zach Kouwe
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Markets & Economy

• The VC Bubble and why it Exists (New York Times Magazine)
  
• China’s coming debt bubble (The Economist)
  
• Video: Carlyle’s David Rubenstein on Bloomberg from the SALT Conference:
  
  • On the hedge fund industry: http://bloom.bg/1QYGTgx
    
  • On the U.S. election: http://bloom.bg/23HN3cb
    
  • On Trump: http://bloom.bg/23HMYFu
    
  • On Brazil: http://bloom.bg/1T68XAU
    
• Hedge Fund Manager get heated in debate over China (Bloomberg)
  
• Larry Summers and Janet Yellen disagree on secular stagnation (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
  
• Private-Equity Pioneer Jeremy Coller Is Stuck Without a Successor to His CEO - (WSJ)
  

Alternatives:

• Hedge Funds Faced Choppy Waters in 2015, but Chiefs Cashed In (New York Times)
  
• Public pension funds stick with hedge funds despite issues (Reuters)
  

Long Reads:

• Fortune’s in-depth look at the saga of Sumner Redstone (Fortune)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Business News is being automated (TalkingBizNews)