Thursday 28 November 2013

29th November


Pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond resorts to melting own gold
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25132104}

Wednesday 27 November 2013

27th Nov

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF HOW MONEY MOVES AROUND THE BANKING SYSTEM
{http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/}

Want to get rich? Read fiction
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-get-rich-read-fiction-2013-11-22?pagenumber=1}

Über-warehouses for the ultra-rich
{http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21590353-ever-more-wealth-being-parked-fancy-storage-facilities-some-customers-they-are}

China-Japan rearmament is Keynesian stimulus, if it doesn't go horribly wrong
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026105/china-japan-rearmament-is-keynesian-stimulus-if-it-doesnt-go-horribly-wrong/}

All That Glitters, lots on gold..
{http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/11/gold-secretive-trading-business}

Security expert builds fully operational GUN from items that can all be purchased in the airport terminal AFTER you go through security
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513362/Man-builds-homemade-gun-items-purchased-airport-terminal-AFTER-security.html}


Fed Seeing Productivity Slowing as Breaking With Economic Trend
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues are suffering through their own form of cognitive dissonance

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Tuesday 26th

A China Triangle: Bitcoin, Baidu And Beijing (a currency to avoid Iranian trade sanctions?)
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/11/24/a-china-triangle-bitcoin-baidu-and-beijing/}

China Developers Deny CCTV Report on Unpaid Land Taxes
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-25/china-developers-owe-3-8-trillion-yuan-in-land-taxes-cctv-says.html}

Information asymmetry, crypto currency edition, FT Alphaville decided to take the plunge this weekend and buy some dreaded Bitcoins
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/25/1702992/information-asymmetry-crypto-currency-edition/}

In Bitcoin’s Orbit: Rival Virtual Currencies Vie for Acceptance
{http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/in-bitcoins-orbit-rival-virtual-currencies-vie-for-acceptance/}

Thursday 14 November 2013

Thursday

2 reads

Recollecting the false messiah of peak oil
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/13/1693722/recollecting-the-false-messiah-of-peak-oil/}
"After we finished our bearish screed, the fund manager stood up, snickered and shot us a look of haughty derision. He then walked over to his bookshelf, took out a book and slid the book across the desk. The book was Matt Simmons’ Twilight in the Desert.
Then, while still maintaining that air of superiority, he told us that this (pointing to Mr. Simmons’ book) was the reason why we would never see oil below $100 a barrel again."

Books that Changed My Life
{http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/11/books-that-changed-my-life/}

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Wednesday


10 Laws of Stock Market Bubbles
{http://www.thestreet.com/story/12104017/1/kass-10-laws-of-stock-market-bubbles.html}

Buy emerging mkts                                          
{http://www.indexuniverse.com/sections/etf-strategist-corner/20434-swedroe-questioning-emerging-markets.html}                
                                                             

the hundred best novels? as of 1898
{http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2013/10/not-the-hundred-best-novels.html}

Winklevosses: Bitcoin worth at least 100 times more
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/101190181}

Investing