Sunday, July 28, 2019

"Citroën Sabotaged Wartime Nazi Truck Production in a Simple and Brilliant Way"

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From Jalopnik: In case you forgot to change the batteries in your calendar, you may not be aware that this year is the 100th anniversa...

"Mango leaves: Indian scientists’ solution to a $2.5 trillion global shipping problem"

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For some reason this got me thinking of the great guar squeeze of 2011 - 2012. Totally unrelated but somehow associated in an addled mind. ...

If It's Not One Tham Ding It's Another: "The Greatest Long-Term Threats Facing Humanity"

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Grandmother didn't swear so she said 'tham ding'. The grandchildren knew what she meant. From the BBC, July 19: How long ca...

"How Making One Chemical Created the Modern World"

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The TL:DR is making a pun, both Alfred Nobel and Kristian Birkeland got deep into the boom-boom quality of nitrogen. Now it may end up bein...

Bad Metaphors: "Community"

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From Real Life Magazine, July 22, 2019: A false shorthand for unity provides a cover for corporate interests BAD METAPHORS is an ongoin...

Panthers on the Prowl in London: "The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York"

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There are four ways to acquire money. Make it, marry it, inherit it or steal it. From Quadrant Magazine (Australia): The Husband Hunter...

"Facebook Is Dying, Libra Won’t Save It, & Wall Street Is Clueless" (FB)

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From CryptOracle via Medium I was the first person to call Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and offer to buy the company (I was running Bolt at th...

Not Messing Around: YouTubers Join With Europe's Largest Trade Union To Fight The GOOG

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From Vice, July 26: The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around The YouTubers Union has joined forces with Europe's largest trade union...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

"Unstable Gases: Market Shocks and Qatari LNG"

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In the U.S. prices have collapsed, see after the jump. From Winton's 'Longer View', June 2017: The gas market has experienced...

"Water is the hidden imbalance in U.S./China trade..."

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Water is interesting stuff. We'll have a few posts on it over the next week or so, starting off with something easy: virtual water. Fr...

"How the state runs business in China"

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From The Guardian: Much of modern China’s epic growth was driven by private enterprise – but under Xi Jinping, the Communist party has re...

"Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism"

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From the journal Science, Technology, & Human Values : Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capital...

"The Beanie Baby Bubble of ’99"

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From The Hustle: Two decades ago, we fought, trampled, and even killed each other over little sacks of beans. Today, we realize how stupi...

"Market Maker For the Impressionists"

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This is a repost from a few years ago. No HFT here. From The Economist's Prospero blog: Market Maker For the Impressionists ...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Shipping: So What's New In the Hanseatic League?

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First up, a bit of backstory, November 24, 2017: A Tale of Two Cities: Hamburg and L ü beck—Lessons in Trade, Geography and Urbanism So...