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) 

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for August 23, 2010

Peter Schiff: The Fed Has A Drug Problem, Bernanke Is Addicted To Printing

Stocks Rally on Takeover Optimism; Coffee Jumps to 12-Year High

Debt's Deadly Grip

Mish's Weekend Potpourri: Commercial Real Estate Prices Tank; Late Mortgage Payments Spike; Half of Shanghai, Beijing Flats Are Vacant; Pension Fraud by New Jersey Cited by SEC

USA: Portrait of a Sagging Empire

Bond Yields Showing No Economic Spoils for Republicans in 2010

Bond bubble fear returns as investors flee stocks

How Pimco is holding the American homeowners hostage

It's doom and gloom all over again

Today’s economic crisis is less about the quantity of output than the distribution of income and leisure

Late-fee limits could cost card issuers $3 billion

Democracy or “Lobbyocracy”?

Beijing Billionaire Who Grew Up With Mao Sees No Housing Bubble


4th Straight Year Of Decline: Country clubs for golfing closing nationwide

10 Big Retailers Closing Stores

Small Investors Flee The Stock Market

Firm: N. Calif home sales drop 23 percent in July

Another top money manager says the market is priced attractively at this time

7 Reasons Why You Should Not Buy A House

Post-Mortgage Meltdown, Where Do We Go Now?

Dr. Housing Bubble: The fallacy of cheap home prices and the two income trap – dual income households underscore massive housing inflation. Nationwide home prices overvalued by 25 percent.

Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?

Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say

Bloomberg: Housing Slide in U.S. Threatens to Drag Economy Into Recession

Watch Out Amazon, Here Comes Rakuten!

Delta to Recall, Hire Attendants as Carrier Expands

What is real jobless rate in North Carolina? Try 17.8%

Bleak Picture for Employment

Veterinary supplier files bankruptcy, lays off 300

State of Texas considers cutting "thousands" of jobs to balance their budget

BAE Systems laying off 124 at Western Pennsylvania plant

Wells Fargo laying off 90 employees in Reading, PA