Thursday, January 28, 2016

Most French Thing Ever: Lunch With Hollande Edition--UPDATED

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But first, La Môme Piaf, stand, if you wish: From the Independent: Iran and France cancel diplomatic lunch to welcome Hassan Rouhani...

Walgreens tells Theranos to stop sending lab tests to California lab (WBA)

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From The Verge: The drugstore chain has also suspended lab services at its Palo Alto store The drugstore chain Walgreens told Theranos ...

Who Needs Workers? "The world's first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce daily"

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From Tech Insider:   The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots. So much so th...

Oil Trading: Well That Was Interesting

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Following up on yesterday's " Oil Prices Rebound on Smaller-than-feared Crude Build--UPDATED ": ...Futures  $31.77 up 32 cen...

Questions America Wants Answered: Should You Have A Separate Toilet Room Inside Your Bathroom?

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Well yes, but first, from AFNS: New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of Existing Starbucks CAMBRIDGE, MA—Starbucks, the nation's largest...

Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman

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A follow up to yesterday's " Bill Gates On Richard Feynman: 'The Best Teacher I Never Had' " on today's 30th anniv...

Grantham, Mayo's James Montier on Fed-Induced Bubbles, Market Valuations, Smart Beta and Liquid Alts

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As always, apologies to Mr. van Otterloo for relegating him to Pierce, Fenner, Smith and Beane status. From Advisor Perspectives, Jan. 26: ...

Lyft, Drivers Settle One of Many Employee Classification Lawsuits

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From ars technica: Lyft, drivers settle labor lawsuit with $12.25M payment, new work agreement Lawyer who filed suit against Lyft still h...

Starting Tomorrow "Changing contract expiration dates will affect crude oil futures comparisons"

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As we wait for the natural gas storage release here's something else from the EIA that may be of interest: January 26, 2016   Changin...

Kocherlakota: "Monetary Policy is Not About Interest Rates"

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From Mr. Kocherlakota's Google blog, prior to yesterday's Fed release: The Federal Open Market Committee has a problem.  The pro...

SEC Suspicious Of Tech Companies' Plunging Valuations Post-IPO

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From Fast Company: Tech upstarts like Box and Etsy saw a steep decline in valuation after going public last year—and regulators want to u...

"Is the re/insurance industry really prepared for a large tail event?"

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No. The plan is to lay any claims over about $50 billion on taxpayers. That's insured losses not total losses. Short the re/insurers...

"China Central Bank Makes Largest Cash Injection in Three Years"

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From China Real Time : China’s central bank is putting the largest amount of cash into the financial system in nearly three years, using ...

"Goldman's Former Head of Junk Bond Trading Has Some Choice Words About the Credit Market"

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From Bloomberg:   The unwinding of the "efficient capital structure" beckons. It may feel as if bond bears  are everywhere the...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Letter: US Government Says Theranos Lab Poses 'Immediate Jeopardy to Patient Safety'---UPDATED

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Update below. Original post: . From The Verge : The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided that Theranos' Newark, ...

Roundup of Analyst Reactions to Today's Fed Statement

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The markets responded by haircutting a couple percent from the day's highs. For a more granular look, MoneyBeat does the heavy lifting:...

Bill Gates On Richard Feynman: "The Best Teacher I Never Had"

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From Mr. Gates' personal blog, gatesnotes: Thirty years ago I went on vacation and fell for Richard Feynman. A friend and I were pla...

A Puzzling Fall In Start-up Jobs

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As our smart , loyal (and good-looking) readers know, it's not small businesses that create jobs it's small new businesses that do ...

Oil: And Now Transneft Says Russia and OPEC Could Play Nice Together

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Following up on " Oil Prices Rebound on Smaller-than-feared Crude Build " immediately below. Front futures now up 91 cents at $32...

Oil Prices Rebound on Smaller-than-feared Crude Build--UPDATED

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Update below. Original post: Yesterday I commented, in " Oil: Crude Storage at Capacity--Goldman Sachs ": Front futures up 3...