Keeping A Wide Angle View On The World of Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, Economics, Politics, Science And The Environment
23 December 2016
22 December 2016
Interesting Reads for Thursday, 22 December 2016: Sea Creatures, Millenials, Peak Cars & More
This Russian Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE (Gizmondo)
Peak Car Market: 32% of Trade-Ins On Car Lots Now Upside Down On Their Loans . . . Negative Balances on Trade-Ins Are Now An Average ($4,832) (The Detroit News)
Young Americans Living With Parents At 75 Year High (Wall Street Journal)
Is Age 30 The New 20? (Marketwatch)
How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail (Scientific American)
Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as "airpocalypse" blights half a billion people
China's Alibaba back on US counterfeits blacklist (BBC)
Trump Appoints "Death By China" Author Peter Navarro To Head Trade Office, Hints At Trade War With Beijing (Zero Hedge)
India’s Small Businesses Facing “Apocalypse” After Demonetisation Experiment KOs The Economy (The Guardian)
Strange Music, Owned By A Gangster Rapper, Enforces The Toughest "On The Road" Rules for Artists (Wall Street Journal)
Find the No. 1 Song on the day you were born (Playback.FM)
Labels:
Alibaba,
Birthday Song,
China,
Deep Sea Fish,
Demonetisation,
Facts,
India,
Millenials,
Music,
Peak Cars,
Smog,
Trump,
Upside Down Car Loans
21 December 2016
Interesting Reads for Wednesday 21 December 2016: Energy Storage, Science Rocks, Obama Blocks & More
It's Energy Storage's Time To Shine (Travis Holum - Motley Fool)
Ford To Close F-150 Kansas Plant For One Week To Decrease Slow Moving Inventory, GM To Lay Off Another 1,300 Workers In March (Reuters)
Does Elon Musk really want to create The Boring Company to build underground roads? (International Business Times, UK)
7/11 and Flirtey Beat Amazon and Deliver 77 Packages by Drones in Reno, Nevada (Phys Org)
President Obama Invokes 1953 Law To Indefinitely Block Drilling In Arctic And Atlantic Oceans (CNBC)
Alaska's Indigenous People See Their Culture Slipping Away As Sea Ice Vanishes (Guardian)
A Feminine Response To Iceland's Financial Crash (TEDTalk)
Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty (Brain Pickings)
Donald Trump's War On Science (The New Yorker)
Trump Rejects Climate Change, But Mar-A-Lago Could Be Lost to the Sea (Bloomberg Business Week)
Labels:
Alaska,
Arctic Ocean,
Atlantic Ocean,
Batteries,
Carl Sagan,
Donald Trump™,
Drilling,
Drones,
Elon Musk,
Energy Storage,
Financial Crisis,
Ford (F),
GM (GM),
Iceland,
Layoffs,
Obama,
Science,
Sea Ice,
Solar,
Tunnels
02 September 2016
News You Can Use for Friday, 2 September 2016
Will Amazon stranglehold Fed Ex and UPS, and finally squeeze the life out of both of them?
The Amazing Story of a just deceased 92 year old janitor, who amassed a $8 million fortune by investing in stocks for the long term, and who left behind much of his wealth to his small Vermont town's library and hospital
US Auto Sales Fall 4.2% for August 2016; Carmakers Say Industry Has Peaked
The coming storm for global financial markets
China's Falling Rail Freight Volume Worries Leaders Greatly
Great Britain faces a retirement disaster in 10 years time
A Visual Capitalist Chart: Which Countries Are Damaged Most By Low Oil Prices?
Why they did it: Maddof and Enron's Fastow Explain the Biggest Frauds In US History
Why Lululemon Stock Is Falling In Thursday's (1 Sep 16) After-Hours Session
Iran signs seven oil deals with firms from Austria, France, Germany, Indonesia and Rusia
01 September 2016
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
Labels:
Apple (AAPL),
Earnings,
Exercise,
Iran,
Jim Morrison,
Laurel Canyon,
LNG,
National Parks,
Oil,
OPEC,
Panama Canal,
Recession,
Sigma 3,
Utility Stocks,
Vietnam
31 August 2016
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
Labels:
Antarctica,
Apple (AAPL),
Boeing (BA),
Charlie Munger,
Dow,
Federal Reserve,
Ford,
Gold,
Japan,
Michael Bloomberg,
Oil,
Shell
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