Links To Help You Think for Tuesday 17 March 2015

Climate Change Is Baking Alaska (Mother Jones) 

Paul Krugman: Netanyahu's Speech Before American Congress Was A Grandstanding Event Arranged To Take Israeli's Minds Off Their Economy (Alternet) 

The Undebtors: Sworn Enemies Of The Vampires Of Debt (Charles Hugh-Smith) 

A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret (New York Times) 

The most alarming thing about Canada’s housing market is routinely ignored (The Globe And Mail) 

Fall Launch? Apple Coming On Strong With Apple TV; WSJ Reports On Meetings With Content Providers

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) In Meetings With Programmers For Apple TV Content - Service Will Not Include NBC After Comcast Breakdowns (Reuters)

March 16 (Reuters) - Apple Inc is in talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of TV networks this fall, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The service would have about 25 channels, anchored by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS and Fox, and be available across all devices powered by Apple's iOS operating system, including iPhones, iPads and Apple TV set-top boxes, the newspaper said.

(Click Here To Enlarge & Refresh Weekly Chart of Apple)

Apple Plans Web TV Service in Fall

In talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of about 25 channels (Wall Street Journal) 

Apple Inc.’s lofty plans to build an online television service are coming into sharper focus.

The technology giant is in talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of TV networks this fall, according to people familiar with the matter. The service would have about 25 channels, anchored by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS and Fox and would be available on Apple devices such as the Apple TV, they said.

For now, the talks don’t involve NBCUniversal, owner of the NBC broadcast network and cable channels like USA and Bravo, because of a falling-out between Apple and NBCUniversal parent company Comcast Corp., the people familiar with the matter said.

US Steel's CEO's Compensation More Than Doubles; US Steel In Layoff Binge; US Steel Weekly Chart

US Steel's CEO's Compensation For 2014 More Than Doubled (Pittsburgh Business Times)

US Steel Is Cutting Jobs Because Chinese Steel Glut Is Flooding Our Markets With Their Cheaper Steel . . . USA Saw A 67% Increase In Imported Chinese Steel For 2014  (Washington Post) 

(US Steel Weekly Chart - Click Here To Refresh Chart)

Links To Help You Think For Monday, 16 March 2015

A Guide To Not Retiring (WSJ - Yahoo) 

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Morgan Housel about Investing and Life (25iq)

Oil Hits New 6 Year Low As US Storage Capacity Strains (Yahoo)

Was the Apple Watch made with China in mind? (Time Magazine)

Venezuela Parliament Grants Extraordinary Powers To President Nickolas Maduro To Rule By Decree For The Next 9 Months In Answer To Perceived Threats By The USA (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) 

Links To Help You Think, Monday 9 March 2015

Consumer Spending Readying For Boom? (Yahoo) 

Hyperloop Construction Moves Out Of Elon Musk's Brain And Begins Construction Next Year (Wired)

Which Metrics Should Be Used To Value Markets? (Barry Ritholtz)

The Chinese Are About To Make Yuan Payments Even Easier Internationally (Yahoo) 

A Different, More Benign, Look At US Household Debt And Auto Loans At This Moment (The Big Picture) 

Moscow City: Build It And They Will Not Come (Business Insider)