Monday, June 27, 2022

Capital Markets: "Consolidation in FX Featured"

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From Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex: Overview: The strong equity market rally seen at the end of last week is carrying into toda...

The Federal Reserve's Explanation Of What Happened In The Money Markets In September 2019

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For now this is just a personal bookmark but we may be referring back to it. What was going on in Q3 and Q4 2019 was a big enough deal that ...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

"Ubiquitous digital media offer potent rewards—but at the price of eroding our sensory and social capacities."

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From Andrey Mir, whose tweet on digital newspaper ad revenues we used as an introduction to " Jeff Bezos’s Next Monopoly: The Press ...

Why Cancel Culture? Because It Is Just So Rewarding

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We've looked at the brain's reward systems for years, some links below. From Medical Xpress, June 16: by ...

"Jeff Bezos’s Next Monopoly: The Press"

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In lieu of an introduction, a quick lesson in how to read charts from "Ecologist of Media" Andrey Mir: "U.S. digital newspap...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

"Jersey Tax Shelter Leak Exposes Wall Street Trading Activities of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Family"

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From the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, June 17: Leaked documents show how Kevin and Ian Maxwell, brothers of disgraced ...

"Why eliminating the unpredictable leads to unintended consequences"

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From The Hedgehog Review, June 16: Mechanization and Monoculture Near the end of ...

The World's Deepest Known Shipwreck, The Samuel B Roberts, Has Been Found

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We visited the "Sammy B." in 2020, coincidentally on the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. More after the jump. From Task...

Lithium Deep Dive

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From Bloomberg via Mining.com, May 25 : The trouble with lithium Elon Musk wants to mine it, China is scouring Tibet for it, battery makers...

"Secrets of the MIT Poker Course"

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An oldie but goodie from Mental Floss: The bus to Atlantic City is oversold, over-air-conditioned, and struggling to get out of Manhattan. ...

StockCats Asks For Clarification

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let me get this straight - the market is looking past the forthcoming rate hikes and recession, to the Fed easing next year because the econ...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Late Night Thoughts

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Seconds before disaster pic.twitter.com/eiL3Y1RSK2 — Daily Roman Updates (@UpdatingOnRome) June 16, 2022   Same.

"Reading Ourselves to Death"

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Yes, yes, reading about reading, irony can be so ironic. From The New Atlantis, Spring 2022 issue, online June 21, 2022: Join me in a t...

"Corporate Criminal Liability for ESG Initiatives Is on Its Way"

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From Columbia Law School's CLS Blue Sky blog, June 23: The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has signaled that it wants to inc...

Meanwhile In Canada: "Whereabouts of fired Winnipeg scientists at centre of national-security investigation still unclear"

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What the hell is going on in Canada? Obsessive Attentive reader may recall some odd little news bites coming out of Canada in 2019 - 2020: ...

"North Dakota Attorney General's Office Looks into Bill Gates-Related Farmland Sale"

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From AgWeek, June 22 The North Dakota Attorney General’s office is asking Red River Trust, a Washington-based entity with offices in the K...

FT Alphaville Talks With Credit Suisse's Zoltan Pozsar

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From FT Alphaville:   Meet Zoltan, the sellside Jules Verne FTAV sits down with Credit Suisse’s money savant and man-of-the-moment, Zoltan P...

Capital Markets: "Risk Appetites Improve Ahead of the Weekend"

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From Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex: Overview: Equities are higher and bonds lower as the week's activity winds down. Asia P...

Seventy-Four Years Ago Today The Soviets Blockaded West Berlin and Began Their Attempt to Starve the City Into Submission

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A repost from 2018. At the time it wasn't known as West Berlin but rather the French, British and American Zones of Occupation. But the...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Now, China Wants to Review All Social Media Comment Before Posting

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Coming soon to a country near you. From WION (India), June 23: According to reports, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) in a new ...