Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Natural Gas: As Buyout Talks Swirl Around Chesapeake Carl Icahn Prays Its Not A Takeunder (CHK)

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The last time I looked Mr. Icahn still held the stock he'd been accumulating since 2012, 73 million shares with the bulk at $23 so most ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Dilbert and Skill Vs. Luck in the Stock Market

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I lied, big fat whopper. It's not Dilbert, it's not even Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, who is not nearly as touchy about his ...

California Drought: We Are Adding Another Tool To The Kit

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Because of methodology issues the familiar U.S. Drought Monitor map does not reflect the recent actual situation. For example, the state o...

"Gallery: from nets to lasers, there’s a lot of new ways to take down drones"

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The most sublime method is to go old school, just have your ghillie hand you the Purdey. From The Ministry of Innovation: As drones of al...

"Uber can't be stopped. So what happens next?"

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From The Verge: Last week New York City backed down from a plan to cap the explosive growth of Uber's vehicle fleet. The mayor's...

Chinese Equities: Action Baby, Action!

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Bright light city gonna set my soul Gonna set my soul on fire Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn, So get those stakes up ...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

"The make believe world of eurozone rules"

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The Eurocrats really do think they are important. From The Financial Times: The disagreement between Germany and the ECJ is not about the...

"Daimler reportedly will test self-driving trucks in Germany this year"

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Following on May's story about Freightliner, " Autonomous, Self-Driving Trucks Are Here ". From VentureBeat: Daimler report...

I'm In the Wrong Business, Part 927: The $400 College Textbook Is Here

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What a sweet racket. From Professor Perry who, during the Great Nastiness of aught-eight, I took to calling 'The Happy Economist' ...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

The Ownership Structure of The Economist

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From Quartz: Pearson wants to sell The Economist too, but has to deal with its baroque ownership structure Days after its $1.3 billion ...

So You Think You're Smart: The Last Person To Know Everything

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Following up on the post immediately below, " Should the "Best and Brightest" Go Into Finance? ". From The Encycloped...

"Should the "Best and Brightest" Go Into Finance?"

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From Priceonomics: "Finance literally bids rocket scientists away from the satellite industry." -- Bank for International S...

Models and Modeling: Can Computers Make Deep Conceptual Insights Into the Way the World Works?

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From Quanta Magazine's Quantized column: The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation Computers can translate French and prove mathematical...

Stephen Hawking To Do A Reddit Ask-Me-Anything Starting Monday

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From the Mercury-News' tech blog, SiliconBeat: Stephen Hawking will do a Reddit AMA starting Monday Stephen Hawking, the renowned ph...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Kinder Morgan Shares Have Lost The Equivalent Of A Year's Worth Of Dividends This Week (KMI)

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As noted in July 9ths " There's Hatin' On Kinder Morgan and Then There's Calling For An Additional 24% Drop From Here (KMI)...

Paul Krugman and the MIT Economics Gang

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For the record, we published our first " MIT Economics Gang " post in November 2013*, complete with this handy chart: ( click...

WSJ's Total Return Blog Saying Farewell

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From Total Return July 21, 2015: This post is the last for the Journal’s Total Return personal-finance blog. WSJ.com’s Your Money page wi...

Climateer Line of the Day: This Is Nuts, When's the Crash Edition

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We have a rare tie for the prestigious CLoD. And even rarer, the co-awardees represent the same organization! First up, FT Opening Quote ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

ZeroHedge Comments On Pearson, the FT and Life: "The Company At The Center Of The Criminal Fed Leak Probe Was Just Sold"

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Don't ever change. Ever. From ZeroHedge: By now, it is common knowledge that the Fed's leak of material, market moving data to M...

"Tyler Cowen on the 'Financial Times'"

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Lifted in toto from Economic Policy Journal : He [Tyler Cowen] writes :  The *Financial Times* as a purely digital product The word ...