Friday, September 27, 2013

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers September 27, 2013

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"I don't know if climate change is caused by burning coal or sun flares or what," said the Moscow-based carbon cowboy. ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

McKinsey Sees No End to the Global Commodities Supercycle

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Life is easiest if you get on the right side of major trends. Gold from $42.22 to $875, 1971-1980; John Templeton, Japanese stocks at 2x ear...

Today in the Financial Crisis, Friday September 26, 2008: Jamie Dimon Picks Up a-third-of-a-Trillion in Assets

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It had been 11 days since the Lehman bankruptcy The Dow Jones Industrial Average notched its second consecutive gain on that Friday, 121.0...

Why We Really Need JPMorgan to Trade Carbon

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From MoneyBox: A Guide To Everyone Suing JP Morgan J.P. Morgan is the large bank that probably gained the most in terms of size, scope,...

Connecting the Physical and Digital Worlds: "What Google Will Look Like In 10 Years" (GOOG)

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From BuzzFeed: Google wants to wipe away disease and fill the roads with self-driving cars. Here’s the product that will allow them to do...

The Secret Formula For Winning a Nobel Prize

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Okay, so you didn't win the MacArthur 'genius' grant yesterday. Do not despair. Working together we can get you that phone cal...

EIA Natural Gas Storage Report: A Big Build, Gas Drops, Sticks the Landing at $3.4020

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From the EIA: Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report for week ending September 20, 2013.   |   Released:  September 26, 2013 at 10:30 a.m....

The Future of Newspaper Economics: Newsprint as a Luxury Good

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That's it! Time for artisanal paper newspapers! The key to newspaper finances will be small-batch newsprint. Combined with inks infus...

Climateer Line of the Day: H2Oh Give Me a Break Edition

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We visited with this guy back in July's " I'm in the Wrong Business Part 625: '$20 for a bottle of water? Your water sommel...

How Old Do Empires Get? 250 Years

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Following up on the " Whole World Getting Tired " of the Anglosphere post immediately below. From AlFin 2100: Sir John Glubb wa...

Sick of Getting Spied On: "Can There Be a Non-US Internet?"

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I've got to think there are a lot of countries for whom the NSA and to a lesser extent GCHQ are loathsome . From Motherboard: ...

An Entire Industry Devoted to Advertising Startup Financing Deals Has Popped Up (the lifting of the General Solicitation Ban)

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I know a lot of people are more interested in the fact that hedge funds can advertise and we'll get to that but as someone who grew up w...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Goldman Sachs: "Bakken shale production will surprise Wall Street" and Carl Icahn does a drive-by (CLR; OAS; ARII; TRIN)

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It appears that despite the extraordinary decline rates of individual wells the overall field has some productive time ahead of it. And thi...

Today in the Financial Crisis, Thursday September 25, 2008: The Government Seizes the Country's Largest Savings & Loan

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From the Los Angeles Times: WaMu free checking -- give or take $5 Washington Mutual Inc., which has made free checking a cornerstone of ...

You Thought the Rio Tinto Red Diamonds Were Baubles, You Dismissed the 118 Carat 'Perfect' Being Auctioned Tomorrow as Crass, Perhaps Monsieur et Madame Would be Interested In...

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...The Pink Star From Bloomberg: Sotheby’s to Auction $60 Million Pink Diamond in Geneva A 59.60-carat pink diamond is estimated to r...

Oil--EIA Analysis: Unexpected Jump in Crude Supplies

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Ya think? WTI $102.54 down 59 cents Brent $108.36 down $0.28 There is an awful lot of the stuff sloshing around. From Platts: Analysis o...

Graphic Web: Ex-Goldman Personnel Connections With the Fed, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank.

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From Muckety : As the map demonstrates, Goldman personnel, past and present, have ties not only to the Fed but to other central banks, in...

Today in Robotics: Stryker Buys RoboDoc, Mako Surgical Up 82% (MAKO; SYK)

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From Reuters: Stryker buys Mako Surgical to gain robot surgery skills Medical device maker Stryker Corp ( SYK.N ) will buy smaller peer M...

UPDATED--What traders shouldn't say over the phone or email, via the CFTC

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Update below. Original post: From the Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Examples of Misconduct From Written Communications Example...

MacArthur foundation Announces 2013 'Genius' Grants

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From the MacArthur Foundation: Meet the 2013 MacArthur Fellows More to come, it's meeting time right now. Previously: MacArthur Fel...