Barclays and a group of its former execs are facing charges of fraud by false representation by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office over deals they struck with Qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bailout – NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg

Bitcoin has bounced back after a dive last week, but as we’ve discussed here already—it’s not value, per se, that the cryptocurrency is fighting. It’s Ether [prepare ye for the Flippening] – NYTimes and WSJ

Andrew Ross Sorkin weighs in on Amazon’s latest acquisition of Whole Foods and finds rather ironic parallels to GE, whose swan song was written in business print around the country last week on Jeff Immelt’s departure. Conglomerates, you see, according to Sorkin, are far from dead—they’re just “dressed up with a bit of Silicon Valley flair” – NYTimes

A take on what Blue Apron’s impending IPO means in a post-Amazon/Whole Foods grocery landscape – NYTimes

As for traditional grocery stores, the news wasn’t any better – Bloomberg

Let’s call it an interesting move. Hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, whose fund has seen billions in outflows in the past few years, has decided double down on the Valeant white whale and will become the troubled drugmaker’s newest board member – WSJ

A quick check-in with middle America suggests that the much-ballyhooed DOL fiduciary rule looks an awful lot like the Y2K scare—far more smoke than fire, at least so far – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Gaming as a hiring tool? If puzzles are your bag, Jaguar Land Rover might be just the company for you – NYTimes

We’ve already seen the powerful effects of Kokesh in action, but a Law360 piece posits that a footnote in the SCOTUS opinion likely signals the Court’s discomfort with the SEC’s use of disgorgement at all – Law360

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans knows that for the Fed to pull off the elusive soft landing, it needs to convince markets that it’s acutely aware if its failures to effectively tackle missed inflation targets – Bloomberg

The mock-ups sure look like something out of an 80’s Epcot exhibit, but recent advances in autonomous cars are prompting carmakers to reconsider the entire look and feel of car interiors. Check it out – WSJ