Thursday, August 27, 2015

"An honest guide to the San Francisco startup life"

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Apparently San Francisco and Silicon valley are now being populated with (pretty good) wannabe standup comedians. From The Next Web: Stat...

The Best And Worst Performing Commodities Of 2015

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From ZeroHedge: On Sunday we highlighted the rather shocking fact that  commodities prices (as measured by Bloomberg’s commodity index) re...

"Why We Can’t Get Over Ourselves"

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Discerning reader may have detected a hint of triumphalism in today's oil postings. Yeah. From Nautil.us: Exposing the reasons we f...

Chart du Jour

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From FinViz : Fin

"How to Destroy a City in Five Minutes"

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From World Affairs Journal, August 25: You don’t need a weapon of mass destruction to ruin a city.   Well, maybe sometimes you do. ...

"Oil Soars Over 8 pct as Deep Shorts Scramble for Cover"

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Kids, don't try this at home. Come do it for us instead. Brent up 8.30% at $46.72 WTI up 8.65% at $41.94 XLE up 4.92% at $64.28 XO...

Curbed Exclusive: San Francisco Manse Sells for $47.5M, Shatters All Local Records

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From Curbed: Once  the most expensive home for sale  in California at $65 million, Locksley Hall in Belvedere  sold today  for $47.5 mi...

Société Générale's Albert Edwards On Flirting and Rejection

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From FT Alphaville: Equities soar. Have some Albert One of the many lessons from equity investing during Japan’s Lost Decade is that in ...

Good Moves In Oil, Petroleum Equities (XLE; XOP)

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The ETF for the major integrated oils, the XLE is up 3.44% at $63.37 while the Exploration and Production ETF, XOP, is up 5.62% at $35.72. ...

"The Opposite of Cold Fusion" (10 million degrees Celsius)

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From MetaFilter : The online edition of  Science  magazine  reports that the private and secretive company  Tri Alpha Energy , has built a...

Smartphone-based 3D Replicators Now One Step Closer With Microsoft 3D Scanner App

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I may have been guilty of premature whining with April's " Smartphone-Enabled 3D Replicators Are Still 3-5 Years Away, Caltech Pro...

"Gundlach wears bond crown as Pimco, Janus stumble in market rout"

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From Bloomberg via the Chicago Tribune: Jeffrey Gundlach is the bond king, for now.   Over the past month, a stretch that saw the uphea...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Not To Be Diacritical But...This is Nuts

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From The Register: Visitors no longer welcomed to Scotland's 'Penis Island' Visitors disembarking at the ferry terminal on t...

FDA Says "No Eggs, Not Mayo": VC-backed Hampton Creek's CEO Is Defiant

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From the FDA's website : ...FDA’s modern regulatory functions began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, a law a quar...

Gasoline Glut To Hit Refiners: Wood Mackenzie (CRAK)

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I knew it! As soon as a refinery ETF rolls out... From Oil & Gas Financial Journal: Wood Mackenzie ’s latest long-term oil products...

Oil turns lower as gasoline futures drop nearly 5%

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We are betting that Monday's $37.76 print was the low. (for a while) Front WTI $39.03 down 28 cents. From MarketWatch: Oil futures ...

"Oil catches breath near six-and-a-half-year lows after falls"

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Following up on Sunday's " Oil Price Decline May Be Due For a (Brief) Pause " and Monday's " Energy Stocks Approachin...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

BBC Funds Study That Finds People Can't Live Without the BBC

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From Radio Times: Two-thirds of viewers opposed to the licence fee changed their minds after just nine days without BBC services "Be...

Wealth and Power: "Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting"

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The accompanying chart is a helpful reminder of just how large the gulf (eh?) between the richest and poorest members of OPEC actually is. ...

Risk: "No one really knows how likely a bioterrorism attack is"

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From ars technica: To analyze the security risks of biological research, policy makers would need to know two things: the likelihood that...