Interesting Reads for Wednesday, 11 January 2017: Blue Eyes,

Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor  (Science Daily)

China: Slideshow of Photovoltaic Generation Project Floating Above Fishery Waters and Now in Operation      (Xinhuanet) 

Graphene OLED produced in European labs means cellphone screens which will not break and which are only one atom thick
(Phys Org)

Investors could be blindsided by a cluster of Fed rate hikes this year     (Marketwatch)

Ex-High Schol Football Player Leaves Behind A Journal Of Suffering From CTE Before Taking His Life      (GQ)

Two Orlando Police Officers Die Trying To Bring Murder Suspect to Justice, One Shot, One In Wreck of Police Motorcycle in Pursuit

(Huffpost)

The extraordinary size of Amazon in one chart     (The Big Picture)

Next Apple iPhone iteration to be made from forged stainless steel instead of milled aluminum
(Forbes) 

Two wide-moat dividend paying stocks to consider on dips   (Dividend Growth Investor)

1930s-Like Demographic Headwinds Are Restraining the US Economy    (Bloomberg)

Bitcoin plunges as Chinese authorities increase scrutiny      (Marketwatch) 

Bitcoin could soar if the Winklevoss ETF is approved      (Marketwatch)

The path to $10,000 Bitcoin    (Of Two Minds)

Intel Chiefs reportedly told Donald Trump last week in a classified meeting that the Russians have something on him (Business Insider)


Trump needs a win/win deal. Putin is a win/lose guy     (Bloomberg)

Interesting Links for Friday, 6 January 2016: Louisiana Erosion, Antarctica Iceberg, Job Raises and More

Louisiana History Washes Away As Sea Levels Rise, Land Sinks   

(NPR)

Huge (5000 sq. km) Antarctic iceberg poised to break away     (BBC)

This could be what a global warming tipping point looks like     (Think Progress)

5 Economics Terms We Should All Use

(Bloomberg)

These jobs are getting the highest pay raises

(Marketwatch) 

Apple (AAPL) Cuts CEO Tim Cook's Pay After Missing Targets     (Nasdaq)  

Why some artists no longer want to be famous

(Yahoo) 

News You Can Use for Thursday, 1 September 2016

Alien Like Clouds Over America's Northwest In A Slide Show

Utility Stocks Just Hit A Sigma 3 Deviation: Odds Of This Happening Are 1 In Every 1200 Years

Bonds Are Priced For Armageddon; Stocks Priced For the Golden Age

Earnings recessions such as we are experiencing now have always ended badly over the past 50 years

Iran's Middle Class Still Waiting For The Economic Recovery Promised By Leaders When Sanctions Were Dropped By The USA 

Iranian Oil Exports To Asia Rise 61% Year Over Year Since Sanctions Dropped by the USA

Secretary General of OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo, to arrive in Iran soon to persuade them to join the "oil freeze"

Newly Expanded Panama Canal Benefits New LNG Exports From the USA: Also, New Spot Price Trade for US LNG Coming

South Korea's Hajin Shipping, world's 7th largest container ship firm, falls into receivership . . . ships stuck in ports worldwide which refuse to unload/load them

Exercise: The Magic Pill, Part 1

The wonderful story of a dad and his three children, traveling to America's 58 national parks in one year's time is uplifting and beautiful

Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) problems with European Union officials expalined by Business Insider

Part 1 of a fascinating story about how America entered Vietnam, Laurel Caynon became the epicenter of the Hippies, and the little known fact that Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter for The Doors, was the son of Admiral George Stephen Morrison, who claims North Vietnam attacked his warships in the Gulf of Tonkin

News You Can Use for Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Boeing, Apple Take Down the Dow 30 Yesterday In Trading

Gold hits 2 month low on hints from the Fed about outlook affecting rise in the US Dollar

Oil Discoveries Hit 70 Year Low

Oil slides to 3 week low on stockpile data

After Merging With BG Group In February 2016, Shell Is Now On A Tear To Sell $30 Billion In Assets

Warren Buffett's Berkshire buys more shares of Phillips 66

Ford Offers 0% Financing And 72 Month Loans

Japan: Unemployment Rate Hits 2 Decade Low

Thousands of new blue lakes appear in Antarctica

A Dozen Ways Michael Bloomberg Thinks Like Charlie Munger

Ireland caught by EU in dealing favorable tax avoidance to Apple in return for employment of Irish citizens

Ireland caught by EU in dealing favorable tax avoidance to Apple in return for employment of Irish citizens

Ebay and Paypal will become separate companies

US Manufacturing is rocking at a 4 1/2 year high, factory employment surged in September

Treasury Secretary Lew Takes A Big Stand Against US Companies And Their "Inversions" To Avoid American Taxes

James Galbraith on the 4 things holding back the Economy from a "return to normal" and the 2 things which saved it from being much worse right after the credit crisis

The Atlantic Monthly wonders, "Has Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Abandoned Egalitarianism?

Apple's New iOS8 Is A Hardball Aimed At Big Brother's Head, Space Wars Starring Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos, More....

Apple's New iOS8 Is A Hardball Aimed At Big Brother's Head

Peter Thiel: Technology has stalled since 1970

Amazon releases new and revamped Kindle line, while announcing Fire OS4

Businessweek writes a beautiful piece on how Tim Cook has changed the culture at Apple

Space Wars: Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos

4 Nigerian villagers go to the Hague and sue Big Oil multinational Shell over 50 years of pollution

Walmart workers threatening walkout on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, claims Google vs. Apple is the tech industry's defining fight

Keiser Report: Banksters Bilking Billions and Max Interviews Reggie Middleton

In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss David Cameron appointing former bankers to Treasury. We look at another former banker who became a Treasury Secretary only to become a bankster - Robert Rubin - and his role in Citigroup bilking Abu Dhabi of billions.

In the second part of this Episode (starting at the 13:00 mark), Max interviews Reggie Middleton of the Boom Bust Blog. Reggie is brilliant in his look at the fraudulent way Goldman Sachs arranged the Facebook offering, how Apple is setting itself up for a loss vis a vis the Samsung lawsuit "win", and his feelings about why Central Banks are just covers for the Oligarchs destroying the middle class and what needs to be done in Europe. This is must see TV and fun to watch as Max's hyperkinetic delivery and Reggie's soft, but well thought out speech are great to have juxtaposed:

Weekend Roundup - June 18, 2011

Corporate America Really Really Cares About Its Employees (Really)

Unofficial Problem Bank list at 996 Institutions

Reasons Why Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Is Not A Member Of The Dow Industrials Index

U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops as Rising Prices Squeeze Household Budgets

Bubble Blowing? China Home Prices Rise in 67 Cities, Defying Curbs

Is the stock market tapped out?

Hot IPOs, LinkedIn and Pandora Turn Cold

Merkel blinks: private bondholders of Greek debt protected from their bad choice of investment

Everything we're doing now was planned before 9/11

Apple Closes Below Its 200-DMA for First Time in 551 Days

Alan Greenspan: Default by Greece is almost certain

Gary Shilling: Housing Prices Will Fall Another 20%

A $9 an hour cook in a resort explains how he saves money buying dividend paying stocks

Stocks with the highest yielding dividends as of June 16, 2011

Brown Vetoes California Budget With Pledge to Seek $9 Billion in Taxes

Greek default could trigger chain reaction

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for October 13, 2010

America's New Super Laser ($3.5 Billion) Passes First Test And Brings Us One Step Closer To Fusion

New Milestone Passed In 2010: 10 Gigawatts of Solar Panels Installed

First Solar Announces 380 Megawatt Increase in Orders for 2011

Dr. Doom, Marc Faber: Buy Stocks As The World Is Heading For Major Inflection Point

China's Foreign Exchange Reserves Rises to $2.65 Trillion by End of September 2010

San Diego Pension Abuse Worse Than Bell, California

Lawyer: Finance industry hired hair stylists, Walmart workers to approve foreclosures

Is Apple Waiting On 4G?

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 3, 2010

Roubini: Get Used To It, The Miserable US Consumer Will Drag The World Down

Zacks #1 Rank Additions for Friday

Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Friday

A Cool Options Trade on Supercool Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)

Goldcorp (NYSE:GG) to buy Andean Resources for $3.42 billion

Petrobras (NYSE: PZE) May Raise Up to $75 Billion in Sale of Shares

10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

Inflation, Deflation, Debt

Fewer and fewer illegal immigrants coming to America

Krugman says the scare stories about stimulus were and are very wrong

China's "Nuclear Financial Option" Downgraded to "Financial Firecracker"

Could investors fleeing stocks become a lost generation?

Three Essential Reads on The Housing Market Right Now

Feeling the pressure from a life 'underwater'

Are Existing Home Prices Overrepresented By Up To 40%?

Home Owners Associations Are A Special Rung In Hell

Realtors Turn To Property Management In Housing Slump

Governments, community groups to get first crack at foreclosed homes

Millions of Americans going through foreclosure will become renters by necessity. Many others will rent by choice. Should the government keep subsidizing owners?

Canada: Threat of a Housing Bubble Has Resurfaced

Banks Playing 'Foreclosure Roulette' With Delinquent Homeowners

Purdue University Offers Early Retirement To 1,600 Of Its Staff

924 Layoffs announced at Sacramento area mortgage servicer HomEq

Blue Cross/Blue Shield In Tennessee Seeks To Slice 140 Jobs

Bad News At The Deseret News for 57 Full-Time and 28 Part-Time Workers

California State considering job cuts of 1,100 prison workers

Job cuts coming to City of Chicago workers