Friday, October 28, 2016

Bricks and Mortar: Amazon Food Stores Probably Won't Disrupt the Grocery Biz (AMZN)

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The stock is down $41.14 at $777.18 following yesterday's after-hours earnings miss. From Forbes: Amazon's 2,000 food stores will...

End of An Era at DealBreaker (and the financial internet)

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Where will we go for the best post tags on the internet? Deeply, deeply, wonderfully deeply disturbed tags. From DealBreaker: Housekeep...

Venture Capitalists Betting On Insects As Animal Feed

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From Agrimoney: Investors swarm insect-farming sector Could insects be the answer to growing demand for animal feed? Booming glob...

Guy Cancels His $999 Self-Driving Car Project After Highway Traffic Safety Administration Says What?!?!

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From The Verge: Comma.ai will now explore “other products and markets” The self-driving car project started by George Hotz, the fi...

Ah, There's Some Inflation: "Brexit hits Apple Mac customers hard as prices rise by up to £500"

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From the Guardian: New laptops significantly more expensive and already-existing machines have prices raised by hundreds of pounds as App...

There May Be A Way To Hack The IoT Botnet Hackers

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From The Register: Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices...

"Economists React to Third-Quarter GDP: ‘The U.S. Is Roughly on Track’"

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From Real Time Economics: The U.S. economy picked up in the third quarter , easing worries about a more protracted slowdown and leaving t...

Still Looking For Inflation

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The BEA just reported their advance estimate of GDP at 2.9% which if it holds would be the best growth in a couple years. We'll come ba...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Tesla: "After All Is Said and Done, More Is Said Than Done" (TSLA)

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Regular trade:         $ 204.01 +1.77 (0.88%) After-hours :            $ 203.30 -0.71 (0.35%) A net gain of a dollar and six cent...

Uber to Challenge Airbus in the Autonomous Electric Flying Taxi Business

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As the only analysts covering the nascent as-yet-theoretical autonomous electric flying taxi market we intend to be the the go-to source fo...

"What is Truth in Economics?"

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From Lars Syll: In my view, scientific theories are not to be considered ‘true’ or ‘false.’ In constructing such a theory, we are not try...

Questions America Wants Answered: "Do Writers Deserve to Make a Living?"

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We get some of our best ideas reading the news so journos should probably be fed and watered but for much of what passes as writing, comme c...

JP Morgan Talks Tesla (TSLA)

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From Barron's Stocks to Watch: Tesla Motors: Not as Good as It Looks? JPMorgan’s Ryan Brinkman and team contend that Tesla Motors’ ...

Intel IoT Security Maven: Divide the Internet Into Compartments to Save Us From the Internet of Things

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From The Register, whose headlines and sub-heads are usually livelier than ours: Divide the internet into compartments to save us from the...

Dude, Where's La Niña?

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A quick note on terminology for normal people who don't obsess about this stuff: ENSO = the El Niño/Southern Oscillation ENSO Neutr...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Just A Reminder: "Musk Urges Tesla Workers to Cut Costs Ahead of Fundraising Round" (TSLA)

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The man with the plan. Eight weeks ago. From Bloomberg, September 2, 2016 : Internal memo asks for delivery of ‘every car we possibl...

"Tesla Earnings Smash Expectations After Dramatic Change In Reporting Methodology" (TSLA)

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Following up on this morning's " Tesla Motors Plans to Change How it Reports its Earnings (TSLA) ", ZeroHedge gets on the ...

The Effect Of Airbus' Cash Squeeze On Their Autonomous Flying Taxi Project Is Probably Nil

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Following up on this morning's " Planes, Trains and (self-driving) Automobiles "/ Back in August we posted " Airbus Rev...

Planes, Trains and (self-driving) Automobiles

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A dive into transportation wonkitude with Ms Iz as our tour guide. From FT Alphaville: The autoignition temperature of manual cars is muc...

Apple's Earnings Report: Analysts React (AAPL)

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From ZeroHedge: Wall Street Reacts To Apple's Disappointing Earnings As reported last night , despite a kneejerk spike higher in AA...