Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Venture Capital: What “Disrupt” Really Means

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Following up on " Point-Counterpoint: "Disruptive" is Silicon Valley's Most Pernicious Cliché ". From Techcrunch: ...

UPDATED--Point-Counterpoint: "Disruptive" is Silicon Valley's Most Pernicious Cliché

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Update --Part II: Venture Capital: What “Disrupt” Really Means , part III still to come. Original post: First up, The New Republic with th...

Fertilizer: Some Details of the Arrest of Uralkali's CEO (URKA.L; POT; MOS; IPI)

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If anyone was holding out hope that the marketing cartel would be reconstituted, it might be a while. From Charter 97 (Belarus): Kommersa...

PIMCO Is Getting Into the Managed Futures Business

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From Attain Capital Management: The “Bond King” coming to Managed Futures Look out Managed Futures! Here comes the Bond King! Bill Gross ...
Monday, August 26, 2013

In Case You Missed It, Matt Levine Has Left DealBreaker

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Between Bess' headlines and Matt's footnotes they had the biz covered in inimitable (I've tried) fashion. From DealBreaker: H...

Nanotechnology Roman style

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From Smithsonian Magazine: This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers Researchers have finally found ...

Unemployment, County by County

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The United States Geological Survey says there are 3,141 counties and county equivalents in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. The...

Natural Gas: Gap Filled, Time for a Heat Wave Revelation

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Front futures $3.5050. Seemingly unaware that their confreres in Chicago are sweating, traders in 10282 (NYMEX) have apparently been lulled...

An Obama Nation: President to Bypass Congress on Global Warming

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Executive power baby. From The Hill: REGULATION NATION: Obama bypassing Congress on climate The success of President Obama's second...

Celine Dion Lists Florida Estate For $72 Million

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Back when Celine was touting her green cred it came out that the water park was using 6,500,000 gallons of water per year. Alrighty then. ...

The Next Frontier of the Organic Food War: Making It Affordable (WFM; SFM)

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Figure that out and you are golden. From the Wall Street Journal's Corporate Intelligence blog: Whole Foods Market Inc. and Sprouts...

"Economath and the Drake Equation"

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From Falkenblog: There were several posts last week on the hypothesis that there's too much emphasis on mathematical modeling in mode...

"The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy"

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From io9: In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Rich in foodstuf...

Russian Deputy Russian Prime Minister: "Arrest of Uralkali Ceo Strange, Inappropriate" (URKA; POT; MOS; IPI)

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Mosaic is up 1.93%; Potash Corp is up 2.04% and Intrepid is up 2.74%. Uralkali closed down 3.5% on the MICEX. The Belarusias are talking 10-...

Copper Gets Hit Hard on 7.3% Durable Goods Drop

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The front futures are changing hands at $3.3265. From ZeroHedge : What a difference a day makes. On Friday, Doctor Copper was surging on...

Climateer Line of the Day: Gary Shilling Channels Dead CEA Head Edition

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From the Bloomberg opinion piece " Rapid U.S. Growth Is Missing, Not Gone Forever ": ...any phenomenon that lasts long enough ge...

Belarus Also Looking For Four Other Uralkali Officers

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From the Wall Street Journal: The chief executive officer of Russian potash producer Uralkali (URKA.RS) was taken into custody in Belarus...

Developing--CEO of Russia's Uralkali Detained in Belarus on "Suspicion of Abising Official Power" (URKA.L; POT; MOS; IPI)

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Hardball. He wrecked the cartel. From Reuters: UPDATE 1-Head of Russia's Uralkali detained in Belarus - agencies CEO detained on s...

Corn: Heat Wave Settles In Over Midwest,Grain Prices Jump

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Corn $4.89 up 19 cents (4.04%), wheat $65825 up 12.25 cents, soybeans $13.82 up 54 cents (4.07%). This looks to be the heat wave of the s...

"Metcalfe’s Law & the Future of Driving"

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From EETimes: When economists discuss the "network effect," they mean that the value of a product, or service, is dependent on ...