Friday, April 27, 2018

"Bitcoin (BTC) Declared Sharia-Compliant By Islamic Scholar"

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From World Coin Index: An Indonesian-based startup known as Blossom Finance has launched a report authored by the firm’s internal advisor ...

Andrew Gelman on the Economics Profession.

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Professor Gelman is the Director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. From his Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference a...

"Dollar Puts Finishing Touches on Best Week Since November 2016"

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From Marc to Market: The US dollar's recent gains have been extended, and it is having one of its best weeks since November 2016. Th...

"The Next Threat Stalking American Farmers Is the End of Cheap Money"

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From Bloomberg, April 24: Highest interest rates in five years signal more spending cuts Fed mov...

Pepe Escobar — Why Europe is afraid of the New Silk Roads

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The author of this piece, Pepe Escobar, brings some pro-level analytical chops to the geopol/geo-econ biz. For example when the Western pre...

From Stalin to Putin, the Kremlin's mutually beneficial ties to Russian gangsters go way back.

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From The Moscow Times: The Tragedy of the Age-Old Kremlin-Vor Alliance (Op-ed) The current geopolitical tussle between Russia and the We...

"US Reprieve for Rusal Does Not Relieve President Putin of Fatal Choice for Oleg Deripaska"

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From Dances With Bears: There are two reasons why  the aluminium metal markets are not making long-term bets on the price of the meta...

Armenia is having a 'color revolution.' So why is Russia so calm?

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From the Christian Science Monitor: Unlike post-Soviet revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, and elsewhere, the current protests in Armenia h...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Seattle hits 18 months as nation’s hottest housing market with no signs of slowing down

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Following up on the quick hit factoid on Seattle's construction crane population here's another effect of having Amazon in the ...

Why is “The Bond King” Gundlach Telling Me to Short $FB?

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In early pre-market trade the stock is up  $ 10.93 (6.84%) at $170.62 . The Fly wrote the piece below prior to FB's earnings release. H...

"Shipping's Baltic Exchange turns to grains, gas and even air freight"

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Action baby, action! From Reuters: The Baltic Exchange, owned by Singapore Exchange, plans to launch new indexes for grains, gas and pot...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Société Générale's Albert Edwards Says "My Reputation For Calling Stocks Is In Tatters"

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Well duh. He's been stubbornly fighting the central banks for a decade, a trait he shared with fellow bear David Rosenberg until Rosie f...

"Fraud police quiz Bollore for second day over Africa graft allegations"

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We've looked at M. Bolloré a few times, the last being in December 2016's " Follow ‘Buffett of France’ for a Three-Year Double ...

"The World’s Longest Multi-Asset Momentum Investing Backtest!"

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Two quick points: 1) When implementing momentum as a strategy always, always keep in mind the little "Trend, Friend, Bend, End" ...

Machine Learning Guru Pedro Domingos on the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence

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From Der Spiegel:   April 16, 2018: The Power of the Algorithms In an interview, best-selling author and machine-learning expert Pedro ...