Wednesday, May 28, 2014

"It is time for the right to take the ‘rise of the machines’–and its risks–seriously"

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From the American Enterprise Institute's Ideas blog: In a must-read WaPo commentary , AEI’s Mike Strain takes a look at the continuin...

"Privacy is Not Dead—It's Inevitable"

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From Boston Review: The pace of technological change we have seen over the past fifteen years has been so breathtaking, so unrelenting, t...

It's Quiet Out There: "600 Days Without a 3% Daily Change"

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From Avondale Asset Management: It’s been a long time now since the S&P 500 had a big change in a single day. You have to go back to ...

The Financial Times Explains Its Vicious Crypto-fascist, Puppies-in-a-Blender Attack on Thomas Piketty

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A repost this morning had the line If you read the comments on some of her gold posts from 2012-2013 you'd come away with the impre...

The Developing Bubble In Coders

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From the Acting Man blog: Computer Science Enrollments Explode Techcrunch had an interesting article about the explosion of freshmen d...

Piketty, Piketty. Why Does That Name Seem Familiar? El-Erian on Piketty's Investment Strategies

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From Fortune's Term Sheet: El-Erian: Is Piketty right about investment strategies?   Watching Bentley Prices The gap between rich...

Is Gold Signaling A Move Higher in TIPS Bonds?

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Earlier today the yield on the straight 10-year hit 2.47%, the lowest of 2014. The fact that gold is declining in the face of lower rates i...

More On the Inclusive Capitalism Conference

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Following up on yesterday's " Big Eared Bloke: 'reform capitalism to save the planet' " I should probably explain the ...

Where In the World Is the Queen Mary 2?

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Ship's webcam   Docked in Ålesund Norway.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Retailer John Lewis Reveals the Five Brand-new Technologies it's Investing In

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Yikes. From City AM: John Lewis today crowned the five technology startups that have won a place in the retailer’s technology incubator,...

Big Eared Bloke: "reform capitalism to save the planet"

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Let's be honest. Were it not for dynastic wealth he'd be another ranter at some Speakers' Corner. As it stands he's addressi...

Uber Says Uber Drivers Earn $90,000 Per Year In New York City

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From the Washington Post: Every day millions of Americans hop in their cars to get to work.  But in light of the wages UberX drivers are ...

Gold: When It’s Not Weak Demand in India, It’s China

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Front futures down some more since this morning's post, $1266.80 last. From Barron's Focus on Funds: India and China are the wo...

Upcoming Earth-Asteroid Encounters

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From News24 (South Africa): Asteroids take aim at the Earth A number of asteroids are set to pass the Earth, with one coming very close ...

What Is Wrong With Silicon Valley? Rap Genius Co-Founder Fired For Asshat Comments on Santa Barbara Shooting

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You just know it was Andreeson Horowitz that said 'hit the road Bozo'. Following up on Sunday's " Forget Piketty or Lewis,...

"Six of 10 Highest Paid CEOs are in Media"

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Following up on this morning's " Dead Trees: What Do The Two Lowest Ranked Jobs for 2014 Have In Common? ". From TV Newser: ...

Investing Tips From the Dalai Lama

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From The Contrarian Corner : Pay Attention The Dalai Lama often encourages us to, “Pay attention.” What he means is to be aware of the ...

Gold: 98 Bucks to a New Cycle Low

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Jewelry demand is growing low single digits (3% Q1), speculative interest has fallen dramatically and marginal producers are mining all the...

Swiss National Bank First Quarter Results: 1.7% annualized Yield on Seigniorage, 2% annualized Loss on FX Rate Change

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From SNBCHF.com: The main task of a central bank occupied with QEE (quantitative easing or exchange intervention) is to obtain higher gain...

Dead Trees: What Do The Two Lowest Ranked Jobs for 2014 Have In Common?

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From CareerCast: The Worst Jobs of 2014  For those seeking work in the logging industry or in traditional newspaper reporting, the numbe...