Sunday, May 28, 2023

Russian Spy Whale Seen In Norwegian Waters

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Note the lack of "scare quotes" in the headline. They're real and they're magnificent. From The Barents Observer, May 24: ...

Meanwhile, In Wales: Couple With 400 Different Personalities Between Them

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It's probably a good thing they found each other, though it must get confusing at times. Thanks, I think, to a friend for this five-year...

Iran Seems Quite Pleased By The Number Of Engineers They've Trained Over The Last 30 Years

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From Statista via the Islamic Republic News Agency: Which countries trained the most engineers in the last thirty years? Source: Statista p...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

"President of Belarus hospitalised after meeting with Putin"

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Very unverified. From Ukrainska Pravda, May 27: Valery Tsepkalo, Belarusian opposition leader, said that after a meeting with Russian Presi...

"Monetary financing at the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank"

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From Phenomenal World, May 27: Pecuniary Salvation Monetary financing—the issuance of public money to support public expenditure—has in rec...

Equities: "Are cheap Scandinavian valuations a sweet red herring?"

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From Verdad Advisers, April 24: Swedish Fish Sweden, the land of ABBA, meatballs, and, of course, the iconic Swedish Fish candy, may not be ...
Friday, May 26, 2023

So How Did Thales Price The World's First (known) Call Options?

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Speaking of presses (the post immediately below ), here's a repost . So How Did Thales Price The World's First (known) Call Options?...

Publishers and Alcohol

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From Delancey Place:  Gutenberg and Wine Today's encore selection -- from  Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation...

"Report: French Bank Let Associates of Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Move Funds Unhindered"

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Following on April 2'a " Who Is Riad Salame? Lebanon’s Central Bank Chief Accused of Embezzlement ". From the Organized Crime ...

Startups: "18 French soonicorns to watch"

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That headline is from Sifted, not me. Explanation below, From Sifted.eu, March  26: Following a record year for French tech, these are the c...

On Bubbles

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First up, George Soros via Real Investment Advice, June 2016: Soros – A Rudimentary Theory Of Bubbles ....David’s comments reminded me of Ge...

Time, Once Again, For The Most Extreme Sport In The World (that involves cheese)

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As noted last year, coming out of covid: After two years of " Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling 2021 has been cancelled " and " ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

What's Up In Belarus? Polish General and Democracy NGO Are Talking Armed Uprising On The Way

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From Charter97.org, the pro-democracy-in-Belarus NGO, May 25: Will Belarusian Volunteers Decide To Liberate Mazyr? The raid in the Belgorod ...

Raghuram Rajan: "We Should Be on the Alert for More Problems"

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As noted in March 30's " Raghuram G. Rajan: 'The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures '" Professor Rajan is one of the few ...

Attention Estate Managers: Gamekeepers as a Service (it's a GaaS, GaaS, GaaS)

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In the eternal battle of them that have vs them that want, and with dystopian images of urban poachers roaming the countryside, a spinout fr...

California Is Still Plowing Snow Off The Roads

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In some places the snow on the roads is so deep that the snowblowers can't cut through it. So they shave the mass from the top to make i...

Nvidia's Guidance For The Ages: Analysts React (NVDA)

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Some of the enthusiasm—one "pay any price, bear any burden"* investor was able to grab some at $395.00—from yesterday has been tem...

"Why BlackRock Is Building Strategic Partnerships With Family Offices"

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Sure but can they provide full concierge service including party planning? From Institutional Investor, May 25: The wealthiest private inves...

"Russia Rejects 4-Day Week, Proposes Extra Day With No Pay"

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Shades of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's negotiating style. Although he was famously known as "Mr. No" for his prefe...

"What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth"

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From The Economist, May 25: Could America’s Adderall shortage have harmed its productivity?  Towards the end of last year America began runn...