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Stories, News & Links for Thursday 2 Oct 14
Known for its brothels, casinos and seedy bars, Reno, Nevada enters the high tech age pulling in huge distribution centers, warehouses, and the new $5 Billion Tesla battery factory
Theater Chain Companies' Stocks Fall After Netflix Announces 4 Movie Deal With Adam Sandler
'Warren Buffett: Investment In Tesco Was A "Huge Mistake"
Salon: 8 Disturbing Ways The Koch Brothers Have Amassed Their Fortune
Asian stocks heading for 5 day decline on Fed concerns
Theater Chain Companies' Stocks Fall After Netflix Announces 4 Movie Deal With Adam Sandler
'Warren Buffett: Investment In Tesco Was A "Huge Mistake"
Salon: 8 Disturbing Ways The Koch Brothers Have Amassed Their Fortune
Asian stocks heading for 5 day decline on Fed concerns
30 September 2014
29 September 2014
25 September 2014
23 September 2014
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?
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?
22 September 2014
18 September 2014
Apple's New iOS8 Is A Hardball Aimed At Big Brother's Head, Space Wars Starring Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos, More....
17 September 2014
Business Week: Have We Reached Peak Burger?
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) investors need to closely follow wireless app advertising to see if it is sustainable with established businesses, not just startups
USA asks Turkey for help in starving ISIS of oil revenue
Russian leaders tells public not to panic over Ruble's record fall
USDA Chief Urges Warren Buffett to Ready His Railroad for Bumper Fall Crop Shipment
24 March 2014
Overnight News, Views, Charts & Graphs for Week of March 24 - 31, 2014
Zero Hedge - China's Credit Pipeline Slams Shut: Companies Scramble For The Last Drops Of Liquidity
UGO Bardi - "Peak Gold: How The Romans Lost Their Empire"
Company insiders are selling 6 shares of their companies for every 1 they buy
Fed's Monetary Base Is Still Exploding Despite The 3 Card Tapering Game Mesmerizing Investors
Must Read: Ice Cap Asset Management - "Connecting the Dots"
SandP Downgrades Brazilian Debt to BBB- from BBB
10AM EST, Tuesday, 25 March 14 = Consumer Confidence Poll and New Home Sales numbers to be released
Republicans play politics with IMF money earmarked for Ukraine
Peak Oil Review for Week of March, 24, 2014
Eisenhower's words from his farewell address to the nation as he left office are truer than ever
Review: Snake Oil: how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future
Jesse: The Hunger Games
Ritholtz: Everything That Is Wrong With This Monday
Why Advance Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Can Win If Price Wars Break Out Between Sony and Microsoft Gaming Divisions
20 March 2014
Overnight News, Views, Charts & Graphs for Friday, 21 March 2014
Europe strikes deal to complete banking union
Gold is losing its ‘safe-haven hat,’ some say, as economy stabilizes
Two Palladium ETFs To Launch In South Africa Next Week
Oil's Not Scarce, But Cheap Oil Is
Brazil launches price-fixing probe against 18 multi-national corporations
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Works Out The Kinks In "Same Day Delivery" In San Francisco. Will Shopping Express Take Off In NYC and LA?
Elon Musk and Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) could lead other new car companies in an overthrow of the archaic dealership franchise agreements
Gold is losing its ‘safe-haven hat,’ some say, as economy stabilizes
Time: Starbucks Is Going To Start Selling Booze Almost Everywhere
Oil's Not Scarce, But Cheap Oil Is
Brazil launches price-fixing probe against 18 multi-national corporations
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Works Out The Kinks In "Same Day Delivery" In San Francisco. Will Shopping Express Take Off In NYC and LA?
Elon Musk and Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) could lead other new car companies in an overthrow of the archaic dealership franchise agreements
19 March 2014
Overnight News, Views, Charts & Graphs for Thursday, 20 March 2014
American Pay TV Providers Suffer First Yearly Loss of Subscribers Ever
Dow Still Down For The Year - Click To Enlarge
How Gold Performs During FOMC Weeks (Spoiler Alert: Not Good)
New Fed Head Janet Yellen Delivers Agressive Jab At Markets: QE Set To End This Fall, Higher Rates Maybe 6 Months Later
CEO Says This Winter, Especially January and February, Was the Worst Ever for Fed-Ex
18 March 2014
Grant Williams' Latest
New York Times: "China's Rapid Growth Hits The Brakes"
Euan Mearns (late of "The Oil Drum") breaks down energy production/exports in Russia
New York Times: "China's Rapid Growth Hits The Brakes"
Euan Mearns (late of "The Oil Drum") breaks down energy production/exports in Russia
New York Times: "Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape"
Youtube Link for Documentary Film "Death By China"
13 Years After Defects Were Known, New CEO of GM Says She Was Not Aware Of Them Until January 31, 2014 - Two Weeks After She'd Taken Over
Canada finance minister resigns, natural resources minister set to take over
Chinese Central Bank denies it took part in emergency talks to save collapsed developer
Short Sellers Come Out Of The Dark To Target Chinese Developers
Charles Hugh Smith: "The Five Year Fantasy Is Ending"
NASA: Bursting Cloud of Solar Material Measured at a Speed of 1800 Miles Per Second
Mississippi, The Poorest State, Will Spend Money Testing Welfare Recipients For Drugs
The Big Picture Blog Posts Photos Of The Search For Missing Flight MH370, Family Members, Concerned Civilians
29 January 2014
17 January 2014
China: 1st Shadow Banking Meltdown?
Zero Hedge on the "blistering recover" and how many department stores are laying off employees
New warning against smoking cigarettes issued on 50th Anniversary of the first Surgeon General warning
Changes in police "active shooter" training saved lives in Martin's Grocery shootings this week
09 January 2014
David Suzuki On Population Growth: "We've Already Passed the 59th Minute"
David Suzuki has a short video clip, 3 minutes, 27 seconds long, in which he describes exponential growth when it hits the 59th minute and can no longer be sustained.
As a mind exercise, he uses a test tube with one bacteria in minute 1, and then describes how quickly the test tube fills in different time intervals. As Suziki points out, it's not until the 55th minute that the test tube is 3% full. The 56th minute the test tube is 6% full. The 57th minute the test tube is 12% full, and in the 58th minute, the test tube 24% full, and by the 59th minute, the test tube is almost half-full leading bacteria to think (if they could think) "Look at how long it took us to get to only half full, we can continue to live this way and put off the hard decisions later."
In reality, in the 60th minute, the test tube will be full, and as Suzuki postulates, the only way for the bacteria to continue exponentially growing is to fund scientists to build say three new test tubes for the new bacteria to grow into and spread. But here's the problem with that. In the 61st minute, the second test tube fills up. And in the 62nd minute, all four test tubes are filled. If you lay his example over the Earth's population growth, you understand why he's a believer in Peak Growth, that the way we are living is unsustainable:
As a mind exercise, he uses a test tube with one bacteria in minute 1, and then describes how quickly the test tube fills in different time intervals. As Suziki points out, it's not until the 55th minute that the test tube is 3% full. The 56th minute the test tube is 6% full. The 57th minute the test tube is 12% full, and in the 58th minute, the test tube 24% full, and by the 59th minute, the test tube is almost half-full leading bacteria to think (if they could think) "Look at how long it took us to get to only half full, we can continue to live this way and put off the hard decisions later."
In reality, in the 60th minute, the test tube will be full, and as Suzuki postulates, the only way for the bacteria to continue exponentially growing is to fund scientists to build say three new test tubes for the new bacteria to grow into and spread. But here's the problem with that. In the 61st minute, the second test tube fills up. And in the 62nd minute, all four test tubes are filled. If you lay his example over the Earth's population growth, you understand why he's a believer in Peak Growth, that the way we are living is unsustainable:
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