Saturday, April 26, 2014

To Celebrate Shakespeare's 450th Birthday: Investing Tips From the Bard

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From time to time* we've borrowed from Mr. S. Most recently, last Sunday , unaware of the impending Apr. 23 anniversary, it was "d...
Friday, April 25, 2014

"The Work Song Nanocluster"

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" The Work Song Nanocluster " is the eighteenth episode of the second season of the American sitcom  The Big Bang Theory . The ep...

So, What Could You Do With a $50 Billion, 1000 Megawatt Exaflop Computer? Trade Currencies

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This smells really scammy, should be fun. From Next Big Future : Exaflop computer project for Super programmed trading of the $5 trillion...

Chartology: One Big Fake-out to Fill The S&P 500 Gap

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The S&P 500 is currently at 1866.31, down 12.30 and still 22 points above the bottom of the April 15-16 gap (1,842.98 close-1,846.01 ope...

"2,500 years of financial crises"

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From the Financial Times: Apr 25, 2014 : Financial crises date back to the 4th century BC, but we seem incapable of learning from them. B...

Florida Decides to Offload More Hurricane Risk Amid Desperate (but not insatiable) Reach for Yield

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From Artemis: Everglades Re 2014 cat bond hits $1.5 billion, prices towards upper end Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’...

Why Biotechs Are Best Bought in ETF's (IBB)

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Cytokinetics says Lou Gehrig's drug fails mid-stage trial $5.15 -7.84 (-60.35%)

Financing Rooftop Solar is a Thing (SCTY; SPWR; GOOG)

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Readers who have been with us for a while know we have watched financier SolarCity since the IPO and before that traded both sides of the s...

Natural Gas: EIA Weekly Supply/Demand Report

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The front futures are off a penny at $4.6950 and look a bit heavy. From the Energy Information Administration: ...Consumption falls . U...

MIT's Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014

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From MIT's Technology Review : Introduction Technology news is full of incremental developments, but few of them are true mileston...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Ironically, Milk Futures Are Not Very Liquid

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We don't have many posts* on the dairy business, every couple years or so I break out the "What's Mooving" headline but th...

Bullish bet on large U.S. nat gas producer has analysts wondering (CHK)

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The stock closed today at $29.22 up 20 cents. From Futures Magazine : Chesapeake draws large bull call spread A bullish energy option t...

Checking In With Larry the Numerologist (Summers)

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From Economist's View: 'Will 2014 end up like 1914?' Larry ("The Numerologist") Summers: Will 2014 end up like ...

Archaeology: "Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985"

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From The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon:   Collaborative Team Rescues Early Digital Art through “Forensic Re...

Urals Mint: 1 Kilogram Silver Putin Coin to Commemorate Crimea Annexation

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From the BBC:   The company refers to the new coin as "1kg of nobility" Commemorative coins bearing an image of ...

Following the EIA Storage Report: Natural Gas Futures Down, Natural Gas Producer's Stocks Up (FCG)

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From the EIA: Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report for week ending April 18, 2014   |   Released:  April 24, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.   |   Next ...

Société Générale's Albert Edwards Is Worried

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Yes, I know. Fire hot, water wet, Albert bearish, see also: tautonym . From FT Alphaville: Roar of the permabear Albert Edwards, the So...

"...The Sharing Economy’s Dirty Little Secret"

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From the Wall Street Journal's The Accelerators blog: Want some real talk? The sharing economy isn’t actually about sharing. The buye...

"'Cool Kid' Tech Stocks Are a Lightning Rod"

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From Barron's Read This, Spike That: The news that David Einhorn is shorting a basket of "bubble stocks" has triggered debat...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Given Piketty,Why Do Great Fortunes Disappear

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It used to be war that did in the big piles of familial loot. The repeal of primogeniture and the introduction of death duties has also had ...