Saturday, December 29, 2018

"Florida Man attempts to bring snow to Florida, resulting in 47 lawsuits, three dead deer, a sewage spill and several sunburned seals"

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Now that's a headline. From Florida Man: Florida Man attempts to bring snow to Florida, resulting in 47 lawsuits, three dead dee...

Danske Bank Wins OCCRP's 2018 Actor Of The Year In ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION

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The competition was spirited but Danske Bank was head and shoulders above the (known) competition. From the Organized Crime and Corruption ...

"How Google and Amazon Got Away With Not Being Regulated"

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From Wired, November 13: Once upon a time, in the 1990s and 2000s, the web and the internet were new and everything was going to be diff...

Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers

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I wonder what happened to Amazon Coin? * From Bloomberg, December 20: First focus will be on remittance market in India, pe...

Dear Berlin, It's Okay If You Want To Send The Hipsters Home

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Over the years we've chronicled Berlin's toleration of the hipsters: October 2013 How Hipsters Ruined Berlin June 2015 Mathemat...

Treasure: "Stoney Jack and the Cheapside Hoard"

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From A Blast From the Past: It was only a small shop in an unfashionable part of London, but it had a most peculiar clientele. From Monda...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Best (Worst) Headlines 2018

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These are not the official Climateer Investing list. For that I would need a better memory or some rudimentary note-taking skills. From Th...

"China allows first-ever U.S. rice imports ahead of trade talks"

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From Reuters: China has opened the door to imports of rice from the United States for the first time ever in what analysts took to signal...

A Theory for the Giant Stock Rebound

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This was one of the reasons we went ahead with the " Santa's coming after Christmas ' thing (and again ). Not determinative* bu...

"Natural Gas Bears on Santa’s Nice List as Forward Prices Plunge Again"

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Just so you know, that's not me doing the 'Santa' schtick, that is the nose-to-the-grindstone, very, very professional crew at N...

A Look Back....at the past 4.5 billion years

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Trying to get a little perspective on things. An oldie but goodie via Kottke.org (home of fine hypertext products). From AFNS : Evolu...

Oracle's Larry Ellison To Join Tesla's Board (TSLA)

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The stock is up five bucks, $321.43 last. From MarketWatch: Tesla’s addition of Larry Ellison to board is a ‘home run appointment’, analy...

News You Can Use: "Aquatic refuges for surviving a global catastrophe"

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Panic Rooms? Bunkers? New Zealand hidey-holes? Bond-villain island lairs? Pish-posh. What you want is a nuclear submarine. From Elsevier...

"Economic impact of excess weight now exceeds $1.7 trillion, new Milken Institute report reveals"

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I've mentioned the guy who pitched me on kidney dialysis company DaVita back in 2002; and some of the trades implied in Izabella Kaminsk...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Natural Gas: Poland Is Already Expanding Its New LNG Terminal As Nord Stream 2 Heads For Germany

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A few days ago TASS was reporting: About 370 kilometers of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline already laid - project operator  The Pioneering Spi...

After the Close: Futures Turn Lower, IBD Pitches Some Software Names (WDAY;

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We've been using Workday and Salesforce (CRM) as indicators for the last month since the FAANGs have lost their leadership roles. But wh...

Satan is Real: "4th Biggest Buy Program Of All Time Sends Dow Soaring Over 900 Points"

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Someone (200 West St.?) is doing Beelzebub's work. I think we are close to uncharted territory here. From ZeroHedge: Dow futures p...

"Nvidia Slips on RBC Price-Target Cut" (NVDA)

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It might be time for NVIDIA to start thinking about buying some young upstart chip designers. Starting in May  2015 with the stock bouncin...