Reads for Monday, 2 March 2015

Plan To Exit Stocks Within the Next 8 Years? Exit Now! (John P. Hussman, PhD.)

Astrophysicists ponder the question with computer models, "What if the whole Milky Way Galaxy where a giant wormhole that's stable and navigable?" (Universe Today)

Over 20 Million Outraged Chinese  Viewed A Video "Under The Dome" This Weekend Which Tore Into China's Infamous Air Pollution (New York Times) 

Life 'not as we know it' possible on Saturn's moon Titan (Phys Org) 

Detroit Retirees To See Their Pensions Cut Starting Monday, 2 March 15 (Detroit Free Press) 

Why The NFL Players Association Is Taking On Scott Walker (Think Progress) 

Largest black hole ever discovered; mass of 12 billion suns (The Red Orbit) 

Are Colleges and Universities Going To Implode? (Question Everything Blog)

ISIS Members Go Ape Shit In Mosul Museum, Destroying Antiquities Some Of Which Were 3000 Years Old (Daily Mail - be sure to see embedded video) 

ISIS Bans Evolution Being Taught In Schools (TPM) 

Real Estate is Doomed - Part 1: The Fed (Ramsey Su on The Acting Man Blog)

Housing About To Get Messy? (Wolf On Wall Stree Blog) 

Reads for Thursday, 26 February 2015

Scarcity (The Reformed Broker) 

This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage -- Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country (Huffington Post) 

Apple to hold event on March 9, as Watch launch nears (Reuters) 

Will Great Britain and Italy Say "Screw Nuclear" And Get Power From A Giant Concentrated Solar Plant Located In Tunisia's Sahara Desert? (The Ecologist) 

Watch How NASA Monitors Sand Flying From the Sahara to the Amazon (Time Magazine)

Study provides direct evidence that human activity is causing global warming: For the first time, researchers directly observed carbon dioxide trapping heat in the atmosphere (Salon) 

Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space – with a fifth newly in orbit – after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than a decade (NASA) 

Lawmakers Seek Information on Funding for Climate Change Critics (NY Times) 

Putin's Secret Plan For Ukraine Leaks (The Daily Beast) 

An Investor’s Guide to Better Writing — Seriously (Vitaliy Katsenelson) 

Link for the US Debt Clock also contains assets, poverty, social security recipients and more (US Debt Clock Website) 

Reads for Wednesday, 25 February 2015

U.S. Postal Service, FedEx Have New Competition…from Waffle House: Roadie Is Going To Be The Uber Of Package Delivery (MSN Money)

Oldie, but Goodie: Co-Founder of Motley Fool, Dave Gardner, On "The Greatest Secret Of All" (Motley Fool) 

What Dodd-Frank Didn’t Fix: The Worst Conflicts on Wall Street (Wall Street On Parade) 

The Easy Oil Is Gone So Where Do We Look Now? (Oilprice.com)

President Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline Bill; Republicans Gear Up For Override Bill But Might Not Have The Votes (Politico) 

Oil rigs fall idle after global crude prices drop (BBC)

Nobel Prize Winner Robert Shiller: Buying A Home Isn't Necessarily A Good Investment (Yahoo Finance) 

Bill O Reilly Threatens Another Reporter  (Talking Points Memo) 

Another Big Merchant Dumps American Express (Megan McArdle for Bloomberg) 

Apple now twice as big as world's second-largest company, ExxonMobil (The Daily Telegraph - UK) 

Investigation: Why are cargo pilots excluded from new rest rules? (CBS News) 

Two Ex-Army Rangers Believe Flip Flops And Sarongs Will Defeat ISIS (Gizmondo)

Goodbye, Putin (Foreign Affairs Magazine) 

U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border (Washington Post blog)

75% of Air and Rain Samples Contain Monsanto’s Round Up (Natural Society) 

Obama administration to allow sales of armed drones to allies (Washington Post) 

Reads for Tuesday 24 Feb 15

Microsoft's Secretive Hololens Project Combines Virtual Reality With Reality: Neuromancer Here We Come! (Wired Magazine) 

The Deep Intellect of Octupi (Orion Magazine)

Businessmen Vie To Open The First Ferry Charters Between Florida and Cuba (Business Insider) 

Wal-Mart's Minimum Wage Breakdown (Barry Ritholtz in Bloomberg)

Intel To Announce Their New 10 Nanometer Silicon Manufacturing Process; Will Move Away From Silicon When Moore's Law Takes Them Down to 7 Nanometers (Ars Technica) 

Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into At Least 10 TBTF Banks' Manipulation of Metals/Precious Metals Markets (Bloomberg)

"The Pentagon & Climate Change: How Deniers Put National Security At Risk" (Rolling Stone Magazine)

Bikram Yoga Founder Accused of New Rape Charges/Human Trafficking (The Guardian UK)

How having the proper "Growth Mindset" can help us all become better investors (John Reeves - Motley Fool)

Today, Alaska Become 3rd State To Legalize Marijuana Growing and Smoking (ABC News)

California Drought Exposes Boats, Man Made Reefs and Other Detritus In Drying Up Lakes (NPR)