Wednesday, March 27, 2013

World Liquid Fuels Supply and Demand Balance 2008-2014 (plus one of the best Hitler parodies evah)

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Ms. Iz has an oil post up at FT Alphaville on which I want to ruminate before commenting. There was one thing that caught my eye, mainly ...

Y Combinator's Demo Day

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From cnet: At Y Combinator Demo Day, many echoes of Kickstarter Startups hoping to leverage Kickstarter's success were everywhere dur...

Hot Money: "Cyprus Woes to Help Latvia Lure Russian Cash, Trigon Says"

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Following up on " Latvia: "We're No Cyprus ". From Bloomberg: Latvia , which wants to join the euro region next year, ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Technical Analysis: Tehran Stock Exchange Closes At All Time High

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The TSE beat the S&P 500 to a new record.  Via Uskowi on Iran : ....Mobarakeh Steel Company of Isfahan led the industrial sector, fol...

Climateer Line of the Day: Some Old Hippies Retain Brain Cells, Comment on Big Data Edition

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...Dyson is a kayak builder, emulating the wood-scarce Arctic natives to work with minimum frame inside a skin craft. But in the tropics,...

"Size Matters: The Source of the Small-Cap Premium"

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This type of argument is usually more facile than deep and the attempt to transfer a paradigm constructed by observing natural phenomena to ...

Employment and What Changed in the Year 2000

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From the National Bureau of Economic Research: The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks NBER Working Paper No. 18...

"Brent - WTI Spread Falls to Six Month Lows"

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From Bespoke Investment Group: The chart below shows the performance of Brent (Global benchmark price) and WTI (US benchmark price) crude...

"With Big Data, we are creating artificial intelligences that no human can understand"

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From Quartz: The basis for algorithm's predictions may be beyond understanding for the average human Excerpted from BIG DATA: A Re...

"The Benefits of Chronic Deflation"

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This is a follow-up to last Thursday's " Deflation as Far as the Eye Can See ". From Bloomberg: There is an important disti...

William Shatner blasts IRS for 'Star Trek' parody video

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From the Los Angeles Times Money & Co. blog: ...

Bad News for Pessimists Everywhere: Malthus Was Wrong

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When dealing with folks like the CFR you really have to consider the source and test against what you know, almost as a gedankenexperiment ....

Stats junkie successfully predicts another African coup

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From Foreign Policy's Passport blog: Political scientist Jay Ulfelder, who's quickly becoming the Nate Silver of coups, has accura...

The Changing Relationship Between Electricity Production and GDP Growth in the U.S.

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From the EIA: U.S. economy and electricity demand growth are linked, but relationship is changing   Source: U.S. Energy Informatio...

Barron's Feature: "Betting on the Buffett of Barges" (CKH) Special Bonus: A Case Study in Financial Brilliance

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From Barron's: Charles Fabrikant has built Seacor Holdings into a major operator of work boats—and a consistent friend of investors. ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Alfred C. Hobbs: The American Who Shocked Victorian By Picking the World's Strongest Lock

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The Lock Pickers   Entry 1: Victorian England made the strongest locks in the world—until an American showed up and promised he could pick...

Natural Gas and the $4.00 Line

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Stalingrad or Maginot? Looking pretty Stalingrad-y right now. From FinViz : Going back to March 14 (and reiterated 19 and 21 ): .....

"Too Bullish? Actually, Maybe People Are Too Bearish"

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From ScienceDaily: Confirmation bias In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) is a tendency to sear...

Equity Trading Technology: Good Luck Puny Human

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Following up on the post immediately below, " Behavioral Finance Helps Fund Managers Spot Losers ". From ZeroHedge: John O'...

"Behavioral Finance Helps Fund Managers Spot Losers"

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When He's the Best Offer and Gets Scalped by an HFT  Loser - Market Memes From the intersection of Wall St. & Tech : All...