Thursday, February 25, 2021

Ukraine: "Ex-Privatbank CEO Named as Suspect in $5.5 Billion Fraud Case"

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It's been seven years since the Maidan and it's about time we find out where all the money went. From Bloomberg, February 23: Ukrain...

"These Trees Are Not What They Seem: How the Nature Conservancy, the world’s biggest environmental group, became a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets"

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Following up on yesterday's " Norway, Sweden, and Finland Evicting Ugandan Farmers For Carbon Credits " another aspect of the ...

UPDATED—"Coinbase’s offering docs have just dropped"

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Update: Known toddler hodler (HT: Elon via Izzy) Izabella Kaminska has weighed in with a few comments. Original post As mentioned a couple ...

"The Top 10 Takeaways From JPMorgan's Conference Call On Asset Bubbles"

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 From ZeroHedge: On Tuesday, we pointed out something which we hoped was only unintentionally ironic: at the same time as the first day of ...

Cognitive Science: "Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain—How mass literacy, spurred by Protestantism, reconfigured our neural pathways."

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Yeah, he also had a thing with farts and didn't much care for derivatives either. I should probably do a post about the latter. From Nau...

U.S. Drought Monitor: Some Improvement Over The Last Four Weeks

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Although Phoenix and Las Vegas will eventually have to face the reality that they built their cities in the desert. From the University of N...

Silicon Valley Multi-Family Office Sets Up Shop In London

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From Bloomberg via the Financial Post: Wealth Firm for Silicon Valley Billionaires Sets Up in London  Iconiq Capital, the multifamily office...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Huzzah! Influenza Hath Been Smited In England Huzzah!

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 From the Independent: Not a single case of flu detected by Public Health  England this year as Covid restrictions suppress virus .... MUCH ...

High Frequency Indicators That Folks Are Watching For Recovery

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 From Calculated Risk, January 11 (also on blogroll at right): These indicators are mostly for travel and entertainment.    It will interes...

Norway, Sweden, and Finland Evicting Ugandan Farmers For Carbon Credits

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One of the worst approaches to carbon capital there is. The folks who, fifteen years ago, were likening carbon credits to the old skool Cath...

Ninepoint Energy Fund Oil Playbook

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They seem to be on the right side of the trade for the three weeks since this piece was published. From Ninepoint, February 5: Step 1: Inven...

"China Three Gorges agrees purchase of 400 MW of renewables in Spain"

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Three Gorges is a Chinese government company. From Renewables Now: China Three Gorges (Europe) SA has reached an agreement to buy a portfo...

Convexity Maven: “Seeking Treasure with Convexity”

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From Harley Bassman, The Convexity Maven (accept no substitutes), February 23: Long - time readers of th ese Commentar ies are well aware ...

"Crime In America: Study Reveals The 10 Most Unsafe Neighborhoods"

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 Although the most dangerous cities are mostly well-known: the perennial top ten of Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis etc. when you get...

Putin Calls On Biden To Respect Rights of American Political Dissidents

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Troll Level: Autocrat of all the Russias. That's the takeaway from the February 4, 2021 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Z...

"Stocks & Bonds Suddenly Bid On Brainard, Powell Double-Dove-Down"

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Mo Money. From ZeroHedge: Fed Chair Powell did it yesterday... unleashing his uber dovishness to save stocks and today has done the same by...

"Survey: Baby Boomers Spending Kids’ Inheritance On Adventure And Self-Discovery"

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 Based on tactics I'm observing in other areas of life, the thing to do is call the thoughtless boomers Terrorists or, better yet, to ge...

Bitcoin Ecosystem: This Might Be Important

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In mid-January FT Alphaville's Jamie Powell linked to a story on Bitcoin and Tether and the crypto exchange Bitfinex [just checked, onl...

Capital Markets: "Equities Try to Stabilize and Low Short-Term Rates Help Keep the Dollar on the Defensive"

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 From Marc to Market: Overview: The sharp recovery in US shares yesterday that saw the S&P 500 snap a five-day slide failed to carry i...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Speaking of Mining: "Operator of World's Biggest Bitcoin Mine Planning $500 Million IPO: Report"

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With analyst comment: Ye Olde Bitcoin Smithy * ...And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was J...