Interesting Reads for Monday, 16 January 2016: Big Ben Secrets, Trump™ in Russia, Primate Straws and More . . . .

How Does Big Ben Keep Accurate Time?   (youtube)

Primate tool-use: Chimpanzees make drinking sticks     (BBC)

California begins to emerge from its five-year drought      (PBS)

Common crop chemical leaves bees susceptible to deadly viruses   (Eureklert)

20 dividend stocks with yields up to 7.5% - and these companies are set for sales and earnings gains

(Marketwatch) 

America's 10 Most Favorite Liquors    
(24/7 Wall Street)

China threatens to "take off the gloves" if Trump continues to push them on Taiwan 
(TIME)  

For Trump™, 3 decades of chasing deals in Russia     (New York Times)

Motley Fool Poster Suggests "Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month"     

(Motley Fool)

Scottish humour! A Scottish newspaper's TV listing of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration has caught people's attention both in the UK and the US    (BBC)

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon: The Unbelievable Baby-Man    (Daily Kos)

Willie Nelson's new Trump™-inspired song is titled "Delete and Fast Forward"    

(Rolling Stone)    

Berlin unloads on Trump™    (The Guardian)

Links To Help You Think For Tuesday, 10 March 2015

China may cut coal imports further amid domestic glut (Sydney Morning Herald) 

With the Benefit of Hindsight (Morgan Housel - Motley Fool) 

How Technology Has Brought Moore's Law To The USA's Oil Patch (Oil Price) 

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) 

Comic Strip: Tom the Dancing Bug in "Class Warfare"

Double Standards - Motley Fool Poster jweist

An Open Letter To Bully Bosses: Steve Jobs’ Greatest Failure Should Be Your Greatest Success - Reclaim Leadership dotcom

Street clashes, arrests as bank leader speaks - Seattle Times

Capitalism Needs Regulation – Why Max Keiser is Correct and Libertarians are Mistaken - GoldStockBull

Bad Moon Rising - The Burning Platform

Yes or No? Greece's Euro Membership To Be Put To Vote - Bloomberg

Welcome To America's Lost Decade - Atlantic Monthly

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 8, 2010

Commodities watch: Cotton Rallies to Highest Closing Price in 15 Years: Orange Juice Advances

AP analysis: Economic pain failed to ease in July

Harry Reid (D-NV) blames Bush, Wall Street for sick economy

The Infinite Elasticitiy of Credit - Part 1 (from the Automatic Earth)

Paul Krugman: 1938 in 2010

Depression Written into Law, Part II

John Mauldin: "The Last Chapter"

Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest

Peak Denial About Peak Oil

What Is Going To Happen To Global Economies If Rapid Money Velocity Kicks In

William K. Black - Why Covering up Fraud Losses Impairs Economic Recovery: Part One

Motley Fool: Thread On Aging Population And Macro-Economics

Did A Homeowners Association In Ogden, UT Drive A Homeowner To Suicide?

Shock Therapy for the Housing Market

Toll Brothers Building Upper Class Neighborhood On IC Waterway In Florida (They Crash, They Burn, They Never Learn)

Canadian Housing: Another Debt-Fueled Bubble?

Subprime 2.0 Is Coming Soon to Suburb Near You: Edward Pinto

Housing Inventories Rise for Eighth Straight Month

9 Michigan employers to shed 863 jobs in the next few weeks

ZymoGenetics in Seattle to possibly give 320 pink slips after being taken over by Bristol-Myers Squibb

Meredith Whitney Says Wall Street Firms Will Cut 80,000 Jobs Worldwide In The Next 18 Months