Why High-Frequency Trading Is So Hard to Regulate
{http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/why-high-frequency-trading-is-so-hard-to-regulate/?_r=0}

Paulson Event-Driven Fund Said to Plunge 14% in October

{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-09/paulson-event-driven-fund-said-to-plunge-14-in-october.html}

FT: Russell Brand may irritate but many are listening to him
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/39d9d110-6411-11e4-8ade-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3INMAWFGm}

Peter Munk, chairman of Barrick Gold ($ABX), “I really have no ability to forecast gold prices. I have been in the business for 30 years, and it occupies my mind day and night.”  {http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-24/barrick-s-munk-says-even-einstein-couldn-t-predict-gold-prices.html}

Precious metals oversold
{http://shortsideoflong.com/2014/11/expect-bounce-precious-metals/}

Investing is  a walk in the park, with a dog, that is random and on a long lead.
{http://awealthofcommonsense.com/market-earthquakes/}

How China's "Rare Earth" Weapon Went From Boom To Bust
http://io9.com/how-chinas-rare-earth-weapon-went-from-boom-to-bust-1653638596

An Opportunity in Precious Metals Stocks?
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/opportunity-precious-metals-stocks/

The head of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is focused on China
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-02/man-running-world-s-biggest-wealth-fund-takes-on-riddle-of-china.html}

Precious metals. Second wave of the bubble unwinding
{http://markdow.tumblr.com/post/101626095160/precious-metals-the-second-wave-of-the-bubble-unwind}

What Have Economists Ever Done for Us?
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-02/what-have-economists-ever-done-for-us}

Ebolanoia..
The Psychology of Irrational Fear
{http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-psychology-of-irrational-fear/382080/}

{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/03/map-the-africa-without-ebola/}

Why Asia stocks will rally into year-end: Goldman
{http://emergingmoney.com/analysis/why-asia-stocks-will-rally-into-year-end-goldman/}


Why should you be able to make money?
{http://adamhgrimes.com/blog/able-make-money/}

London: all that glisters...
{http://quarterly.demos.co.uk/article/issue-4/london-all-that-glisters/}

A warm notice from the Star Hotel in China

huevos estrellados
{http://gu.com/p/42d7h}

GARTMAN: We're Witnessing The End Of The Oil Era
http://www.businessinsider.com/dennis-gartman-sees-oil-collapsing-2014-10

UPDATE 2-China reform credentials hit by HK-Shanghai bourse link fiasco
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/27/hkex-stocks-idUSL4N0SM0G520141027

http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/we-need-coal-to-fight-climate-change-says-whitehavens-paul-flynn-20141028-11cyfy.html

We need coal to fight climate change
http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/we-need-coal-to-fight-climate-change-says-whitehavens-paul-flynn-20141028-11cyfy.html

The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/capitalism-in-crisis-amid-slow-growth-and-growing-inequality-a-998598.html

Same Railway lines as the US in 1890
China approves $24.5 billion in rail and airport projects
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-china-economy-investment-idUSKCN0IB0X320141022}

Oil slump leaves Russia even weaker than decaying Soviet Union
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11181297/Oil-slump-leaves-Russia-even-weaker-than-decaying-Soviet-Union.html}

The man with the golden blood
{http://mosaicscience.com/story/man-golden-blood}

Ebola serum for Africa patients within weeks, says WHO
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29707393}


Is the Chinese Economy About to Fall Off a Cliff?
{http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/chinese-economy-fall-off-cliff}

Ebola, broken down
{http://www.vox.com/2014/10/21/7020519/Ebola-facts-maps-charts-graphics}

This is a market mover! corporate bond buyback!!
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/21/us-ecb-policy-idUSKCN0IA0WU20141021}

No hard landing for China
http://soberlook.com/2014/10/no-hard-landing-for-chinas-economy-for.html

http://fortune.com/2014/10/21/chinas-gdp-growth-slows-to-5-year-low-but-thats-ok/

The element that causes arguments
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29661615}

'When a Stock Market Theory Is Contagious', Robert Shiller's narrative
{http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/10/when-a-stock-market-theory-is-contagious.html}

How will Saudi Arabia respond to lower oil prices?
{http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/10/how-will-saudi-arabia-respond-to-lower-oil-prices}

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphs
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains

Let’s Fix It: This Is How Cars Should Work. Over to You, Elon
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141016120551-660389-let-s-fix-it-this-is-how-cars-should-work-over-to-you-elon?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

oh dear.. poor chart

This Chart Still Suggests Buying Bonds and Selling Stocks
http://allstarcharts.com/chart-still-suggests-buying-bonds-selling-stocks/

Why Inequality Matters

Bill Gates on Piketty

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Inequality-Matters-Capital-in-21st-Century-Review

U.S. Oil Producers May Drill Themselves Into Oblivion
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-13/u-dot-s-dot-oil-prices-are-dropping-but-drilling-is-more-expensive

LOCKHEED: We Just Made A Huge Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion
http://www.businessinsider.com/andrea-shalal-lockheed-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-2014-10

China’s Dangerous Game
Killing a Chicken to Scare the Monkeys
{http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/chinas-dangerous-game/380789/?single_page=true}

Quant Blogs , consolidated
{http://www.alphaarchitect.com/blog/2014/10/13/top-geeky-quant-blogs/#.VD54MPldUYs}

We're Sitting on 10 Billion Barrels of Oil! OK, Two
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-09/ceos-tout-reserves-of-oil-gas-revealed-to-be-less-to-sec.html}

Putting the Performance of Gold in Perspective and the myth that “gold is money” 
http://pragcap.com/putting-the-performance-of-gold-in-perspective

Avoid High Beta Stocks. Period.
http://www.alphaarchitect.com/blog/2014/10/09/avoid-high-beta-stocks-period/#.VDy7Y_ldUYs

Lower oil prices
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/10/lower-oil-prices


A Massive Chinese Property Company Just Canceled A Share Offering, And There Are Rumours The Chairman Is Missing
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/agile-property-holdings-2014-10

This is the most important chart in the world right now
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11158948/This-is-the-most-important-chart-in-the-world-right-now.html

50 Cultural Icons on Their Favorite Books

{http://flavorwire.com/480819/50-cultural-icons-on-their-favorite-books/view-all}

jakub rozalski

{http://jakubsan.tumblr.com/}

I Have No Idea

{http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/02/i-have-no-idea.aspx}

Bitcoin cognitive dissonance of the day, Bill Gates edition

{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/10/03/1994792/bitcoin-cognitive-dissonance-of-the-day-bill-gates-edition/}

S&P 500 Companies Spend 95% of Profits on Buybacks, Payouts
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-06/s-p-500-companies-spend-almost-all-profits-on-buybacks-payouts.html}

Gold on the Edge
{http://www.syncubate.com/blog/2014/10/5/gold-on-the-edge}

12 Rules of Goldbuggery
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/04/the-10-rules-of-goldbuggery/}

Albert Edwards Says Watch Japanese Yen and Be Very Afraid
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/albert-edwards-says-watch-japanese-yen-and-be-very-very-afraid.html}


The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence
{http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy/#.VC13WMCD_QA.email}

Really , wow

{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29477894}

Ebola Virus Talking Points: Wednesday Focus for October 1, 2014
{http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/09/30/ebola-virus-talking-points-wednesday-
focus-october-1-2014/}

The Top 10 Essays Since 1950
{http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/
54337-the-top-10-essays-since-1950.html}

Practice Does Not Make Perfect
We are not all created equal where our genes and abilities are concerned.

{http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/09/malcolm_gladwell_s_10_000_hour_rule_for_deliberate_practice_is_wrong_genes.html}