Monday, June 27, 2016

Uber Comperitor Lyft Hires M&A Banker Qatalyst Partners

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From the Wall Street Journal: Hiring comes as highly valued startups find it tougher to raise funds from venture capitalists Ride-hailin...

Following Up On Y Combinator's Universal Basic Income Experiment: They'd Like To Try Their Hand At Building New Cities

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On May 31 we had: " Seed Stage Accelerator Y Combinator Developing A Basic Income Pilot Project " from Y Combinator's Posthave...

The Elites Are Not The Problem, It's The People, Says German Elite

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Reminding us of political consultant, strategist and gadfly Dick Tuck and the night he lost a California state Senate Democratic primary con...

It Is Time For The Princess of Liechtenstein To Seize This Opportunity To Pursue Her Rightful Claim To Be Queen Of Scotland (and maybe England too, sorry Charles) RBS

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After reading Izabella Kaminska's thoughts in this morning's " On the non-viability of an independent Scotland staying in the s...

Despite His Dire Warnings Soros Did Not Short The Pound This Go-Round

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He did however do a run-and-gun on the bookmakers. I kid. The bookies got beat by little old ladies in the north of England making hundred...

"Oil Tumbles Amid Bad News For Glut As US Offshore To Hit Record In 2017"

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There is just so darn much of the stuff around. And now there are wihispers that China is close to topping off their strategic reserve and G...

Dear Silicon Valley: Forget Flying Cars, Give Us Economic Growth (Technology Review's 50 smartest companies)

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From MIT's Technology Review, June 21, 2016: Companies taking advantage of amazing new digital technologies dominate our list of 5...

Nearly 400 Publishers Have Applied for Medium's Plan to Help Them Make Money

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From AdAge: Publishers Try Out Membership System on Medium In early April, Medium, the platform founded by Ev Williams, made a pitch t...

"Even if Brexit Vote Wins, there may be No Brexit: Daiwa"

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A smart piece of analysis from the day before the referendum. That's not to say there won't be serious effects in both the short ...

Agricultural Commodities Rebounding

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Last Chg Corn 399-4 +5-2 Soybeans 1096-2 +17-6 Wheat 467-6 +2-6 From Agrimoney: AM markets: ags stage rebound, as focus...

"Trading Suspended in Barclays and RBS as UK Bank Shares Cash" (BARC; RBS)

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RBS off another 14.71% at 175.10; BARC down 10.75% at 137.35. From City AM: Trading in bank shares was suspended this morning as the val...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

"Elon Musk's new company is developing robots to do your housework"

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Sure you've got your rockets and your electric vehicles and your solar installers but what would really tie it all together? From Scie...

"Senior Merkel ally says London should be allowed Brexit rethink"

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This fits the thesis that the likelihood of an exit is actually pretty low. From Reuters : German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief ...

Climateer Line of the Day, Robo-Advisor Edition

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On Friday, in the midst of the worldwide decline in equity markets Barron's referenced an A.T. Kearney study from earlier in the week : ...

The Hack That Could Take Down New York City

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From New York Magazine, June 19: The Big Hack: A scenario that could happen based on what already has. On December 4, 2017, at a little ...

Artificial Intelligence Algos To Read, Understand and Comment On News Stories

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This seems efficient. Combine the story-writing programs* with the commenting programs and just cut the humans out completely. From New Sc...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Totally Not Brexit: How To Plate Food

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If you can do this you have found your calling. From Sad and Useless: Low Budget Gourmet Meals ... MORE HT: MetaFilter ...

Brexit: Elon Musk Is Not Going To Invite Izabella Kaminska To Fly To Mars (plus guys in wigs)

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Mr. Musk, in a 'tell' that he may be coming under some stress, said earlier this month : "Most likely the form of government ...

An Astounding Amount of Information About The Brexit Vote and Its Aftermath--UPDATED

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Update below. Original post:    I'm more and more coming round  to the view that there will be no exit. From the scheming and dream...
Friday, June 24, 2016

How Russia Tamed Inflation

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As noted in the intro to June 10's " Bank of Russia Cuts Rate First Time Since July as Risks Fade ": Considering what she ha...