Friday, June 28, 2024

Meanwhile in India: "Business Tycoon Says His Kids Called Him ‘Loser’ Because of Bill Gates"

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A repost from those carefree days of early January 2020 . From Sputnik, December 25, 2019: Back in his college days, top Indian industria...

"House of Cards: On Sean H. Vanatta’s 'Plastic Capitalism'"

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From the Los Angeles Review of Books, June 21: THE AMERICAN WAY of life has long meant living beyond one’s means. Take the experience of the...

"Norway to award Arctic blocks for seabed mining in 2025"

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Nauru and Norway seem to be the most enthusiastic nations pursuing seabed mining, not sure how the other N-nations, Namibia, Nepal (landloc...

"Infrastructure Funds: The New Financiers of Offshore Energy Vessels"

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From gCaptain, June 28: NEW YORK — Infrastructure funds are increasingly financing expensive, purpose-built ships serving the offshore ener...

NASA and Boeing deny Starliner crew is ‘stranded’: “We’re not in any rush to come home”

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From TechCrunch, June 28: NASA and Boeing officials pushed back against recent reporting that the two astronauts brought to the ISS on Sta...

First Solar, Inc. Apparently A Victim Of President Biden's Debate Performance (FSLR)

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One of the more interesting phenomena that can be observed in equity investing is the importance of getting on the right side of a move. Thi...

California: "Newsom, lawmakers use cuts, reserves and ‘fiscal emergency’ declaration to solve budget deficit"

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This is like putting a Band-Aid on a hemicorporectomy. From the Los Angeles Times, June 22: Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers struc...

"Supreme Court delivers blow to power of federal agencies, overturning 40-year-old precedent"

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This is one of the big decisions for this term. From CNBC, June 28: The important 1984 precedent gave federal bureaucrats flexibility to int...

"Thai Energy Billionaire Steps Up Data Center Push to Tap AI Boom"

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I'm starting to think this may be more than a passing fad. From Bloomberg, June 27: Tycoon Sarath, partners to spend $271 million to add...

NYT: "As the planet warms, atoll nations like the Maldives seemed doomed to shrink. Scientists have begun to tell a surprising new story"

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From the New York Times, June 27: A Surprising Climate Find As the planet warms, atoll nations like the Maldives seemed doomed to shrink. Sc...

PCE DEflation: "Personal Income and Outlays, May 2024"

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Press release, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, June 28: Personal income income increased $114.1 billion (0.5 percent at a monthly ra...

Capital Markets: "Will the PCE Deflator Really Contain New Information?"

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From Marc to Market: Overview: The US dollar is narrowly mixed as North American participants prepare to return for the last session of the...

Izabella Kaminska: "The dirty little secret no politician will admit: There is no way to ‘go for growth’" (plus Macron as Commander-in-Chief)

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Ms Kaminska writing rather than editing. At PoliticoPro (.eu) Izzy Ungated, June 27: Everything now is just a euphemism for financial repres...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

"Swedish police investigate three unexplained deaths at an electric vehicle battery plant"

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What's going on here? Northvolt's manufacturing set-up is as advanced as anyone's, it doesn't make sense that there would on...

"A $100 Billion Bet on China’s Economy Sours as Warehouses Empty"

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From Bloomberg, June 25: Vacancies are climbing at many logistics and industrial parks E-commerce slowdown, company offshoring slams landlor...

Aston Martin Has A "Q" Division: The Valiant V12 is Fernando Alonso’s side project

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Who knew? From CityAM, June 26: Aston Martin has released the first images of its new limited-edition supercar, created by the company’s in-...

Tips And Tricks For Investing In 'End of the World Funds'

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A repost from 2018. As unauthorized representatives for Long or Short Capital's End of the World Puts this is an area of profound inte...

Capital Markets: "The Greenback Consolidates while Sustaining Break against the Yen"

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From Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex: Overview: The dollar is sporting a softer profile today against all the G10 currencies but ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Elon Musk's Tyrannical "X" Regime Is Over

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Thus sayeth the U.S. Supreme Court (or at least one of the justices, sort of): The Supreme Court has ruled that we can still call it Twitte...

Poster Child for Subsidies ($10 billion) First Solar, Inc.Being Looked At For Ties, Donations to Biden Administration

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Of course FSLR has ties to the Biden Administration, you don't think they snuggle up to Hitler and the gang?  (actually the Nazis were v...