Monday, March 28, 2016

UPDATED--"FBI hacks into gunman’s iPhone without Apple’s help"

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UPDATE: " 'Apple likely can’t force FBI to disclose how it got data from seized iPhone' (AAPL) " Original post:   A qu...

Bring On the Stagflation: "Atlanta Fed’s ‘GDP Now’ Plunges; Predicts Just 0.6% Q1 Growth"

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Combined with slowly rising core inflation this is setting up to be a mess. From Barron's Income Investing: The  Atlanta Federal Rese...

"The Fed Is Going to Let Price Inflation Run Hot"

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Not Weimar '23 or Hungary in '46 (4.19 × 10 16 %) hot, just hotter than one might be led to believe from the rhetoric. From Econom...

"Here’s what it costs to drill a shale well these days"

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Lifted in toto from the Houston Chronicle's FuelFix blog : It’s been getting cheaper to drill and complete oil and gas wells since 201...

Japan Looks to Kickstart 'Fintech' Revolution

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From Fortune: Strict regulation has been choking out financial innovation in the world’s third-biggest economy. A laggard in embracing ...

"From Regulating Uber to Subsidizing It"

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From Reason, March 14, 2016: On March 21, the Orlando suburb Altamonte Springs is starting a pilot program that pays for part of riders...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

The 1916 Fabergé Imperial Eggs

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Over the years we've looked at most of the Imperial Fabergé eggs (and one non-imperial ). Here are the two 1916 Easter eggs via Pearly...

The Hottest PhD Market In the World

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From The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog : Fei -Fei Li , a Stanford University professor who is an expert in computer vision, said one of her Ph.D. ...

"What would it take to disrupt Facebook?" (FB)

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Disruption as a goal is probably looking at things the wrong way around but if you are going to think it anyway you might as well think it b...

"It Is Obvious FT Alphaville Does Not Understand Rocket Internet (RKET:GR)"

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That was our headline story a year ago today. Rocket is the little Berlin-hipster corporate-knockoff-making machine that thinks of itself ...

Florida Man Patiently Waiting For Gawker Money To Arrive

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Via the Florida Man feed : Florida Man Begins Patiently Waiting for Gawker’s Money to Arrive pic.twitter.com/Q27lFWZ5t6 — Florida Man (@...

"Guard at ‘terror target’ Belgian nuclear site killed, access badge stolen – media"

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From RT, March 26: A security officer at a nuclear site was killed in the Belgian city of Charleroi two days after the terror attacks in...

Alt Investment: "How to Buy Bill Ackman, Dan Loeb on the Cheap"

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I wouldn't touch the former, a little voice keeps saying Ackman is nothing more than fortuitous leveraged beta with a sidecar of front-r...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

A Novel Co-Authored By An Artificial Intelligence Program Longlisted For Japanese SciFi Literary Prize

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From the Yomiuri Shimbun's The Japan News:   AI-written novel passes literary prize screening The Yomiuri Shimbun A short-form no...

More On Current Oil Prices, Equities and Economic Activity

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I quit supporting the Oxford comma. Following up on the piece from the IMF blog, " Oil Prices and the Global Economy: It’s Complicate...

Izabella Kaminska's Oil Trade Goes Sour: Shakespearean Tragedy Edition

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Default, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. First rule of bidness: Know your counterparty or u...

"Oil Prices and the Global Economy: It’s Complicated"

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From iMF Direct, Mar. 24: Oil prices have been persistently low for well over a year and a half now, but as the April 2016  World Economic...

Artificial Intelligence: Here's Why Microsoft's Teen Chatbot Turned into a Genocidal Racist, According to an AI Expert

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Headlines from the future, today. A twofer from Business Insider: Microsoft is deleting its AI chatbot's incredibly racist tweets ...

What $40 Oil Means: Floor and Ceiling Edition

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The writer says $35 will eventually be the new floor while we, for a couple reasons think it will be lower. More on that after the OPEC pro...

IBM Says Their Newly Purchased The Weather Company Is An IoT Platform

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And here I was thinking* the purchase was just a fancy way to mobilize Watson as a crop-insurance salesman along the lines of Google funded ...