Monday, October 29, 2018

With the DJIA Down 350, Let's Check In With The Fly

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From iBankCoinL   Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:55pm EST A Clarification of My Recent Boolish Positions Oh oh, not a good start that was at DJIA 2...

"How Much is the Fed Going to Raise Interest Rates?"

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I had just seen the headline on the October 24 paper from the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank when I went to catch up with Professor Taylor and....

"Amazon’s Core Business Is Slowing" (AMZN)

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From Gartner L2, October 26: Amazon’s core e-commerce business (reported in quarterly earnings as “Online Stores”) slowed to 11% year-ov...

China Testing "Gait Analysis" As Biometric Surveillance Tool

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From the Asia Times: Gait analysis in trial runs in Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang Beijing-based tech firm a pioneer in applying gait analys...

The Week Ahead--"How to Gird Up Your Loins: An Illustrated Guide"

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A repost from October 2014. Although we don't plan a  Dress & Grooming column, this may come in handy should the markets descend in...

Sidewalk Labs Toronto Update: "Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare"

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From Engadget, Oct. 26: Sidewalk Labs wants an independent trust to manage citizen privacy in Quayside. ...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

"Saudi Aramco wants to buy 30% of Novatek’s Arctic LNG-2"

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Back in December 2017, at the opening of Russia's Yamal LNG operation the Saudis sent Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih to represent the K...

"The Automation Charade"

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“Sadly, the jobless future for the masses doesn’t resemble the jobless present of the 1 percent  who live off dividends, interest, and re...

"The Real Reason Europe Finally Attempts To Stabilize Libya"

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From OilPrice, Oct. 27: After years of reticence to reengage as the situation in Libya increasingly spiralled out of control, the Europea...

The CIA'a Former "Chief of Disguise" on How to Disappear Into the Crowd

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From MetaFilter, October 25: Making Spies Disappear For years, Jonna Mendez was undercover as a part of the CIA's Office of Techni...

Natural Gas: NOAA's U.S.Winter Outlook (now with more El Niño)

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We haven't been posting on U.S. natural gas futures because, at least as far as blogging goes, it has been untradeable. It might be doab...

Tim (www.) Berners-Lee: "One Small Step for the Web…"

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We've been following Sir Tim's rather audacious idea for a few months now and if he can pull it off it changes things as much as did...

"How Turkey is playing Saudi Arabia"

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As noted in an aside from Oct. 22's " The Biggest Winners In The Mediterranean Energy War ": Speaking of difficult relations...

China’s Economy Is Not Crashing, It’s Worse Than That

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From Alhambra Investments: China’s economy is not crashing. Hyperbole works both ways. Last year and this, the smallest increment above ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

"The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World"

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A masterful review from Monica Green at Inference Magazine: B ruce Campbell’s The Great Transition chronicles an important and gloomy ...

"UN report calls Bay Area homeless crisis human rights violation"

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From Curbed: Special rapporteur cites SF and Oakland along with worst slums in the world In January, United Nations Special Rapporteur ...

FX: Iran Sentencing Currency Traders to Death

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The money changers always get blamed, since, if not time immemorial at least since the whole Temple habbub. From Radio Free Europe: Irani...

"Better Angels of Our Nature My Ass: Bill Gross Is a Lousy Writer"

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That time the FT's Izabella Kaminska sliced-up Bill Gross like a Canadian fishing guide gutting walleyes. Originally posted November 3,...

"US Seeks Documents From Glencore on Corrupt Intermediaries" (GLEN: L)

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From/via the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, October 26: The US Department of Justice is seeking documents from the worl...

Oct 27 2013 Lou Reed Dies

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It doesn't seem like five years. This was our post that day. Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Lou Reed Dies at 71 He's fortunate he...