Monday 23rd December

Smart Beta And Tourist Investors
{http://www.rickferri.com/blog/investments/smart-beta-and-tourist-investors/}

Gold Miners Approaching Support
{http://shortsideoflong.com/2013/12/gold-miners-approaching-support/}

A Wordnado of Words in 2013
{http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/a-wordnado-of-words-in-2013.html?_r=0}

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Selling Anything
{http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/21/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-for-selling-anything/}

Friday 20th

Only in China could a bank that defaulted for $1 billion in
June IPO in December and raise $3 billion
Everbright Bank slides in HK debut amid China cash crunch fears
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-everbright-listing-idUSBRE9BJ03P20131220}

Xinhua’s Top Ten Popular Words of 2013
{http://www.thechinastory.org/dossier/xinhuas-top-ten-popular-words-of-2013/}

China’s Stocks Extend Slump in Longest Losing Streak Since 1994
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-20/china-stock-index-futures-rise-after-pboc-adds-funds-to-lenders.html}

Abandon commodities!
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/12/abandon-commodities/}

Irrationality, trend-following, and cats
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/01/investing}

Who Owns Congress?
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/who-owns-congress-2/#more-112948}

How strong is gold’s “Wall of Worry?”
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-strong-is-golds-wall-of-worry-2013-12-18}

Thursday 19th December

good market revision
{http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N8o-QIn12ak}

Wolf repeat in the Irish
Why Abenomics is bound to disappoint Japan
{http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/why-abenomics-is-bound-to-disappoint-japan-1.1631136?page=2}

Morning MoneyBeat Asia: Fed’s Sweet Taper May Give Asia a Toothache
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/12/18/morning-moneybeat-asia-feds-sweet-taper-may-give-asia-a-toothache/}

A Professional Preps for the End of QE
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabrown/2013/05/12/a-professional-preps-for-the-end-of-qe/}

You may think of this as the end of QE but many of us, those with multi-decade time horizons and big dreams for the future, will instead be thinking of this as the beginning of something else. Just as T.S. Eliot would along with all the other bright-eyed opportunists throughout history. “The end is where we start from.”

The bottom line is that the current zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) and the various quantitative easings will be dismantled and undone as slowly and deliberately as they were put on. We’ll not be thrown down face-first atop a wooden table, ravished and thrusted upon by coarse soldiers as a sentry guards the door. No, after all this time I believe that our corset shall be untied gingerly and with care, our hips caressed and our neck dappled with an archipelago of gentle kisses. Bernanke is nothing if not a patient lover, subtle almost to a fault.

Wednesday 18th

Why Abenomics will disappoint - Wolf
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf682d66-642c-11e3-98e2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2no3nYPgl}

Gold Funds See Unprecedented 31% Slump With World Losing Faith
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-15/gold-funds-see-unprecedented-31-slump-with-world-losing-faith.html}

Gather ’round, children, here’s how to heal a wounded economy
{http://qz.com/157852/gather-round-children-heres-how-to-heal-a-wounded-economy/}

By reading this article, you’re mining bitcoins
{http://qz.com/154877/by-reading-this-page-you-are-mining-bitcoins/}

Goldman's 100 best charts for 2013
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-13/goldmans-top-100-charts-2013-part-1}
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-17/goldmans-top-100-charts-2013-part-2}

Foreigners Contribute More to British Economy than UK Nationals
{http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-immigration-statistics-ons-british-economy-foreign-498456}

Why are banks unstable?
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/12/economist-explains-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ee/banksunstable}

Tuesday 17th Dec

The declining correlation between energy and non-energy inflation
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/12/17/1723362/the-declining-correlation-between-energy-and-non-energy-inflation/}

Flow chart revision


Watch out for the January Junk Effect
{http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/12/16/watch-out-for-the-january-junk-effect/}

A bull market without buyers
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/12/16/1723592/a-bull-market-without-buyers/}

Folding a Life-Size Origami Elephant Out of a Single Sheet of Paper
{http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2013/12/13/swiss_artist_sipho_mabona_designs_a_life_size_origami_elephant.html}

Monday the 16th

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Jason Zweig about Investing
{http://25iq.com/2013/12/08/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-jason-zweig-about-investing-3/}

Russia in Stagnation: Putin Speech Hints at Big Problems
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/putin-speech-hints-at-big-problems-and-stagnation-in-russia-a-938761.html}

Why Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—in 2 Charts
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/why-bitcoin-will-never-be-a-currency-in-2-charts/282364/}

Friday 13th December

What Sir Isaac Newton can teach us about London’s ludicrous property price bubble
(and Tower Resources)
{http://moneyweek.com/merryns-blog/what-sir-isaac-newton-can-teach-us-about-londons-ludicrous-property-price-bubble/}

TRP LN

It shows what happened to poor Isaac Newton in the South Sea bubble. He bought in early and sold out when things look ridiculously expensive . Then, as prices rose and rose and rose he lost confidence in his judgement and bought back in. That was fine for a very short period. Then came the crash. Prices fell back way below the level at which he had bought. Then the level at which he had first sold. And then the level at which he had first bought.
Newton went on to repurchase a good deal more South Sea Company shares at more than three times the price of his original stake, and then proceeded to lose £20,000 (which, in 1720, amounted to almost all his life savings). This prompted him to add, allegedly, that
“I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men.”

Fifty Shades of Financial Jargon: An 'Erotic FinFiction' Q&A

{http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-12/fifty-shades-of-financial-jargon-an-erotic-finfiction-q-and-a}

Investment Fads and Themes, 1996-2013

{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/12/12/investment-fads-and-themes-1996-2013/}

Behold the Christmas Sweater Industrial Complex

{http://qz.com/157000/behold-the-christmas-sweater-industrial-complex/}

Grilled Cheese

{http://www.businessinsider.com/grilled-cheese-restaurant-2013-12}

want to have lunch here today
http://www.thrillist.com/eat/london/battersea/dip-flip-how-to-french-dip-at-batterseas-newest-burger-joint

Thursday 12th

Chinese shop owners in Argentina arm themselves with guns amid violent looting
{http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1378897/chinese-shop-owners-argentina-arm-themselves-guns-amid-violent}

since more than 80 per cent of the country's supermarkets are estimated to be owned by the Chinese, the community has suffered considerable financial loss in the looting.

Everything you need to know about the Volcker Rule
{http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/11/volcker-rule-explained-banking-regulation}

MORGAN STANLEY: Stop Talking About Tapering — Here's What You Should Be Talking About Instea
{http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-stop-talking-about-tapering-2013-12}

Monday the 9th Dec

Why Life Does Not Really Exist
{http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2013/12/02/why-life-does-not-really-exist/}

Governments Admit They Carry Out False Flag Terror
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/governments-admit-they-carry-out-false-flag-terror/}

How To Waste Time Properly
The right distractions can boost creativity.
{http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/how-to-waste-time-properly}

Friday the 6th

What Exactly Is Economic Growth?

{http://jerrykhachoyan.com/exactly-economic-growth/}

A LIST OF REASONS WHY OUR BRAINS LOVE LISTS
{http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/a-list-of-reasons-that-our-brains-love-lists.html}

1. Our brains love lists
2. The headline catches our eye in a stream of content
3. It positions its subject within a preëxisting category and classification syste
4. It spatially organizes the information and it promises a story that’s finite whose length has been quantified upfront.
5. They create an easy reading experience, in which the mental heavy lifting of conceptualization, categorization, and analysis is completed well in advance of actual consumption.
6. They often hit our attentional sweet spot
7. Alleviate the so-called “paradox of choice”—the phenomenon that the more information and options we have, the worse we feel.
8. we process it more efficiently, and we retain it with little effort. Faced with a detailed discussion of policies toward China or five insane buildings under construction in Shanghai, we tend to choose the latter bite-sized option.

Even when we know we will not be entirely satisfied by it, That’s just fine, as long as we realize that our fast-food information diet is necessarily limited in content and nuance, and thus unlikely to contain the nutritional value of the more in-depth analysis of traditional articles that rely on paragraphs, not bullet points."

Why the stupid think they’re smart
{http://mindhacks.com/2013/12/02/the-more-inept-you-are-the-more-inaccurate-your-self-assessment/}

Dec 04 2013

The Conversation About Economic Growth with Equity that Washington Should Be Having
{http://equitablegrowth.org/2013/12/02/958/the-short-run-and-the-long-run-savings-gluts-investment-shortfalls-too-low-inflation-targets-reduced-risk-bearing-capacity-and-the-failures-of-our-public-sphere-monday-focus}

How does the Fed influence the economy?
{http://www.cbsnews.com/news/explainer-what-is-the-federal-funds-rate/}

open peer-based crowd self-policing money system using Reddit -Bitcoin
Capital controls, Bitcoin edition

that's it so far

Does QE cause deflation?

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/does-qe-cause-deflation.html

Bitcoin under pressure
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590766-virtual-currency-it-mathematically-elegant-increasingly-popular-and-highly

29th November

How To Talk To Your Family About The Taper Over Thanksgiving

{http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-talk-to-your-parents-about-the-taper-over-thanksgiving-2013-11}

Want To Buy Gold @ $1,150 Today?

{http://theshortsideoflong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/want-to-buy-gold-1150-today.html}

Pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond resorts to melting own gold

{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25132104}

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

{http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-11-26/fed-seeing-productivity-slowing-as-breaking-with-economic-trend}

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/}

Monday

When are markets “rational”?
{http://blog.mpettis.com/2013/11/when-are-markets-rational/}

'The Renminbi Is Failing the Chinese People'
{http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/the_renminbi_is_failing_the_Chinese_people}

Shadow Banking: What It Is, How it Broke, and How to Fix It
{http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/07/shadow-banking-what-it-is-how-it-broke-and-how-to-fix-it/21038/}

SantaCon is more naughty than nice NYPD says, warning bar owners about onslaught
{http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/santacon-naughty-nice-nypd-article-1.1524774#ixzz2lPn2olZE}

What makes men laugh?
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10452042/What-makes-men-laugh.html}

Bitcoin Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Moneyhttp://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/bitcoin-survival-guide/

Friday, 22nd Nov

Claims about France
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/claims-about-france.html}

Why assassins don’t prefer Bitcoin
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/22/1700922/guest-post-why-assassins-dont-prefer-bitcoin/}

Mario Draghi hits at ‘nationalistic’ attacks of ECB rate cut
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1891c476-52b6-11e3-8586-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2lMv0OThm}

The World's Most Powerful Computer Network Is Being Wasted on Bitcoin
{http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-powerful-computer-network-is-being-was-504503726}



Everything I asked about Bitcoin
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/11/everything-i-was-afraid-to-ask-about-bitcoin-but-did/}

21st November

Near Zero: ECB Interest Rate Cuts Hit Savings Hard
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/germans-worried-as-low-ecb-interest-rates-hit-savings-a-934240.html}

China, and the soaring price of Bitcoin
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/china-and-the-soaring-price-of-bitcoin.html}


watch the world's currencies flow into BTC in realtime
{http://fiatleak.com/}

Mapping Bitcoin
{http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/mapping-bitcoin/?_r=1}

Bitcoin Price and Chart
{http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/widget/chart/}

Wednesday 20th Nov

Will China and India Destroy the World?
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/will-china-and-india-destroy-the-world-.html}

Secular stagnation, bubbles & inequality
{http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2013/11/secular-stagnation-bubbles-inequality}

Chinese enter the bitcoin frenzy
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/11/chinese-enter-the-bitcoin-frenzy/}

Russian History in one GIF

Tuesday 19th

Actually, Economists Can Predict Financial Crises
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-15/actually-economists-can-predict-financial-crises.html}

Why No Bankers Go to Jail
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/why-no-bankers-go-to-jail.html}

Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity
{http://io9.com/viral-journalism-and-the-valley-of-ambiguity-1463178368}

A crypto crisis or a crypto triumph?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/18/1696832/a-crypto-crisis-or-a-crypto-triumph/}

The Economics of Rob Ford
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2013/11/the-economics-of-rob-ford.html#more}

18th November, Monday

Wall Street Isn’t Worth It
{http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/wall-street-isnt-worth-it/}

This Chart Destroys That Famous Myth About The Dollar Losing 90% Of Its Value
{http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-destroys-that-famous-myth-about-the-dollar-losing-90-of-its-value-2013-11} oh dear..

Stupid Things Finance People Say
{http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/14/stupid-things-finance-people-say.aspx}

Friday

ECB ready to print, Germany ready to scream
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026052/ecb-ready-to-print-germany-ready-to-scream/}

Quantitative easing, not as we know it
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/11/unconventional-monetary-policy}


Where To Find The Weirdest Stuff On The Internet
{http://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-subreddits-2013-11}

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

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

Monday 11th

The Hong Kong dollar. Buy now at 1983 prices
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21588139-after-30-years-hong-kongs-peg-american-dollar-still-going-strong-buy-now}

November the 6th, Wednesday

Gold Miners Extremely Oversold
{http://theshortsideoflong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/gold-miners-extremely-oversold.html}

Why markets are holding their breath on China
{http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/11/5/china/why-markets-are-holding-their-breath-china}

Heading toward a Cliff, bubble chat
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/heading-toward-a-cliff/}

Bitcoin Is Broken
{http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/}

When will the people who called Bitcoin a bubble admit they were wrong?
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/05/when-will-the-people-who-called-bitcoin-a-bubble-admit-they-were-wrong/}

Tuesday 5th Nov

Dirty Money: Will Singapore Clean Up Its Act?
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-singapore-banking-sector-is-a-tax-haven-that-now-faces-reform-a-930998.html}

The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
{http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/07/the-lost-world-of-the-london-coffeehouse/}

Oaktree Buys Cheap Chinese Stocks as U.S. Fairly Valued

{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/oaktree-s-marks-buys-cheap-chinese-stocks-as-u-s-fairly-valued.html}

Thursday 31st

British journalists lock each other up and throw away the key

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-cohen/2013/10/british-journalists-lock-each-other-up-and-throw-away-the-key/

Steve Coogan: David Mitchell, press freedom is not being threatened
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/27/leveson-press-regulation-steve-coogan-david-mitchell}

I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling
{http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-challenged-hackers-to-investigate-me-and-what-they-found-out-is-chilling/}

Wednesday 30th

The Chinese Are In Love With Bitcoin And It's Driving The Digital Currency's Prices Into The Stratosphere
{http://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-and-bitcoin-2013-10}

There's no need to apologise for the sorry state of Britain. But I'm sorry
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/27/apologise-sorry-state-britain-harvard-david-mitchell?CMP=twt_gu}

David Cameron threatens injunction against the Guardian to stop further Snowden leak publications
{http://boingboing.net/2013/10/29/david-cameron-threatens-injunc.html}

Tuesday 29th Oct

This Isn’t Capitalism — It’s Growthism, and It’s Bad for Us
{http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/this-isnt-capitalism-its-growthism-and-its-bad-for-us/
}
China Killed Your Dog. Are You Next?
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-24/china-killed-your-dog-are-you-next-.html}

No global recovery yet
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025932/no-global-recovery-yet/}

9 Shocking Photos Of The Devastation Wrought By The St. Jude Storm
{http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/9-shocking-photos-of-the-devastation-wrought-by-the-st-jude}

Art Director Javier Pérez Turns Everyday Objects into Whimsical Illustrations
{http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/instagram-experiments-javier-perez/}

Friday 25th

Political Maniac, say it how it is..
{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BHujm3cpY}

yawn..Spike in China money rates raises cash-crunch fears
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f93f8cb0-3c5e-11e3-b85f-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2ijDK5pfj}

18 signs you’re reading bad criticism of economics
{http://chrisauld.com/2013/10/23/18-signs-youre-reading-bad-criticism-of-economics/}

Looking forward to the weekend

Thursday the 24th

Chinese Shares Look Attractive
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/10/23/chinese-shares-look-attractive/?mod=WSJBlog}

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
{http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53279/27-actors-who-got-their-starts-miami-vice}

Wednesday 23rd

Charting lesson, 'Bearish engulfing candle' yes that's a Black closing Marubozu
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/10/22/clips-from-tonights-fast-money-29/}

Time Stops
{http://www.thestockbandit.com/time-stops/}

Tuesday

American Debt, Chinese Anxiety, Elaborated
{http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/10/american_debt_c.html}

Academic Studies Show QE Doesn’t Work
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/academic-studies-show-qe-doesnt-work/}

THE ULTIMATE CHEAT SHEET FOR REINVENTING YOURSELF{http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/10/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-for-reinventing-yourself/}

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Michael Price abut Investing
{http://25iq.com/2013/10/20/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-michael-price-abut-investing/}

Farmland bubble? 10-year rise raises red flags
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/farmland-bubble-10-year-rise-raises-red-flags-2013-10-21}

The shale-gas boom won’t do much for climate change. But it will make us a bit richer.
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/21/the-shale-gas-boom-wont-do-much-for-climate-change-but-it-will-make-us-a-bit-richer/}

Fake Banksys Easily Outsell Real Banksys
{http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/fake-banksys-outsell-real-banksys.html}

Scratch-built, thoroughly documented, working 1/4 scale V8 engine
{http://boingboing.net/2013/10/21/scratch-built-thoroughly-docu.html#more-263194} &
{http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/f31/1-4-scale-v8-first-project-13548/}

Monday

You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential
{http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/07/you-can-increase-your-intelligence-5-ways-to-maximize-your-cognitive-potential/}

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE BEFORE SEEING HYPERINFLATION? ONE EXPERT’S ANSWER MAY FRIGHTEN YOU
{http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/02/how-long-do-we-have-before-seeing-hyperinflation-one-experts-answer-may-frighten-you/}

The secrets of shopping
{http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/magazine/fall-2013/secrets-of-shopping}

Friday 18th Oct

Trust funds for social tenants? The true cost of central London council housing
{http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2013/10/trust-funds-for-social-tenants-the-true-cost-of-central-london-council-housing-2.html}

The Nobel committee is muddled on the nature of economics
' It is like awarding the physics prize jointly to Ptolemy for his theory that the Earth is the centre of the universe, and to Copernicus for showing it is not.'
{http://www.johnkay.com/2013/10/16/the-nobel-committee-is-muddled-on-the-nature-of-economics}

What does China want with Britain's nuclear industry?
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/17/china-britain-nuclear-industry}

European energy fact of the day
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/10/european-energy-fact-of-the-day.html}

Wednesday 16th

9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Money

{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/china-invented-every-form-of-money/}

The sun is setting on dollar supremacy, and with it, American power

{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/10378666/The-sun-is-setting-on-dollar-supremacy-and-with-it-American-power.html}

The yield on Greek bonds have hit a eurozone crisis low

{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea038a9e-358d-11e3-b539-00144feab7de.html#axzz2hsgW4u31}

Friday

Thursday

Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Presents His 10 Favorite Strips
{http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-adams-favorite-dilbert-comics-2013-10}

Royal Mail shares will be priced at 330p

{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24470086}

Azerbaijan releases election results… before the polls even open

{http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/azerbaijan-releases-election-results-before-the-polls-even-open-8869732.html}

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

http://www.experimentation-online.co.uk/article.php?id=1756

Wednesday 9th October

How Resource Scarcity Constrains China{http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-07/how-resource-scarcity-constrains-china}

Default Deniers
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/default-deniers/?_r=1}


Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington
{http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/understanding-the-game-being-played-in-washington/}

muse
Rust and Ruin: The Downfall of Antarctic Whaling
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/history-of-the-grytviken-whaling-station-near-antarctica-a-926711.html}

The High Seas
How a high school-educated drug smuggler built a fleet of submarines—in the middle of the jungle—to ferry cocaine to the United States.
{http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2013/10/mauner_mahecha_s_drug_submarines_inside_a_high_tech_south_american_narco.single.html}


From the Sony Walkman to the humble zip: The past century’s top 100 inventions that changed our lives (yet most of us take for granted)
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2449468/Sony-Walkman-zip-Past-centurys-100-inventions.html}

Liongold, Blumont, Asiasons fall out

The Real Story Behind Blumont, Asiasons And LionGol
{http://www.fool.sg/2013/10/09/the-real-story-behind-blumont-asiasons-and-liongold/}
Blumont, Asiasons, LionGold Plunge in Singapore
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304171804579120192108848258.html}
UPDATE 2-Blumont queries SGX's lifting of trading halt, reveals new chairman
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/08/blumont-asiasons-shareprice-idUSL4N0HY0F420131008}
What’s Happened to Blumont, Asiasons and LionGold Corp?
{http://www.fool.sg/2013/10/04/whats-happened-to-blumont-asiasons-and-liongold-corp/}

'Foolish' Bottom Line
Stock market prices can fluctuate irrationally and often wildly. That means to say that prices can keep rising even when the underlying businesses have poor fundamentals. If that’s the case, then don’t be surprised when the bottom falls out one day.
On the other hand, prices can collapse despite strong fundamentals. That’s when investors need to exercise discipline and not give into fear. A purchase during times of irrational distress can even set the stage for spectacular returns in the future.
Ultimately, investors have to recognise that business fundamentals are the main drivers of long-term shareholder returns. In the long run, it’s the businesses that matters.

Tuesday

Five Reasons to Fear the Debt Ceiling
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-06/five-reasons-to-fear-the-debt-ceiling.html}

Somebody throw Greece a debt jubilee! George Soros says Greek debt must be written-off
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/star-investor-george-soros-wants-debt-relief-for-greece-a-926493.html}

The 106 Finance People You Have To Follow On Twitter
{http://www.businessinsider.com/finance-people-to-follow-on-twitter-2013-10?op=1}

Algorithm Writes People’s Life Histories Using Twitter Stream
{http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519961/algorithm-writes-peoples-life-histories-using-twitter/}

Monday

There’s no point trying to live in London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/caa96d96-2b9f-11e3-a1b7-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2h1Ic9zar

Friday

Shanghai Free Trade Zone As Damp Squib
{http://www.chinalawblog.com/2013/10/shanghai-free-trade-zone-as-damp-squib.html}

Multitude of beer
http://popchartlab.com/collections/prints/products/the-magnificent-multitude-of-beer


update
list of words that should be banned from ever appearing in print or on the lips of chefs, judges and presenters on TV.
http://fortonfood.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/verbiage/

Nina Katchadourian whiles away long plane journeys by locking herself in the lavatory and pretending to be a 15th century Dutch painting.
http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/04/lavatory-self-portraits/

15 Free Online Courses That Are Actually Worth Your Time
{http://www.businessinsider.com/best-online-courses-to-take-2013-9}

Wednesday

The 22 Most Cliched Tourist Photos Ever, And Why They Matter
http://skift.com/2013/08/25/the-22-most-cliched-tourist-photos-ever-and-why-they-matter/?app=noRedirect#1

THE TRILLION DOLLAR COIN--OR, MORE SENSIBLY, 10000 HUNDRED
MILLION-DOLLAR COINS--IS THE ONLY WAY FOR OBAMA TO FULFILL HIS
OATH OF OFFICE

{http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/09/the-trillion-dollar-coin-or-more-sensibly-1000-billion-dollar-coins-is-the-only-way-for-obama-to-fulfill-his-oath-of-offi.html}

Tuesday

The Unofficial Dividend.com Guide To Being An Investor
{http://www.dividend.com/dividend-education/the-unofficial-dividend-com-guide-to-being-an-investor/}

Chaos in Rome: Berlusconi Tricks Spark Fear in Europe
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/rome-government-could-collapse-as-berlusconi-ministers-resign-a-925385.html}

10 surprising economic trends that rule the world
{http://qz.com/129691/10-surprising-economic-trends-that-rule-the-world/}

10 Terms Investment Pros Use to Raise Money
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/09/30/10-terms-investment-pros-use-to-raise-money/}

Monday 30th September

China Seeks to Repeat Deng’s Shenzhen Success in Shanghai

{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-26/china-seeks-to-repeat-deng-s-shenzhen-success-in-shanghai-zone.html}

How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio

{http://www.economicprinciples.org/} or {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0}

Sovereign doubts

{http://www.economist.com/news/schools-brief/21586802-fourth-our-series-articles-financial-crisis-looks-surge-public}

Fixing the market for helium

{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/27/good-news-congress-just-averted-a-global-helium-crisis/}

The “Breaking Bad” school

{http://www.economist.com/news/business/21586801-best-show-television-also-first-rate-primer-business-breaking-bad-school}

Chart of the day: US breweries have exploded, from 89 in the late 1970s to more than 2,500 today, a 2,750% increase!

{http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/09/chart-of-the-day-us-breweries-have-exploded-from-89-in-the-late-1970s-to-more-than-2500-today-a-2750-increase/}

7 Signs That the Craft-Beer Craze Has Gone Totally Mainstream

{http://business.time.com/2013/09/22/7-signs-that-the-craft-beer-craze-has-gone-totally-mainstream/}

Thursday 26th

If Chinese people aren’t consuming, why are they spending like crazy on cars?
{http://qz.com/127997/if-chinese-people-arent-consuming-why-are-they-spending-like-crazy-on-cars/}

Proving That Most Traders Are Idiots
{http://www.businessinsider.com/colin-camerer-wins-genius-grant-2013-9}

First computer made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24232896}

McGrath: “If You Think the Crisis of 2008 is Over, Then You’re Falling Right Into the Game Plan”
{http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/mcgrath-if-you-think-the-crisis-of-2008-is-over-then-youre-falling-right-into-the-game-plan_09252013}

Houses beating households, London edition
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/09/24/1644322/houses-beating-households-london-edition/}

Wednesday

Venezuelan Arbitrage
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/09/venezuelan-arbitrage.html}

Tuesday 24th

The World's Best Food Markets
http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-best-food-markets-2013-9#borough-market-london-england-1

China just bought 5% of Ukraine
{http://qz.com/127258/why-china-just-bought-one-twentieth-of-ukraine/}

The idiocy of crowds
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/09/23/the-idiocy-of-crowds/}

Two Idiots Log Into a CrowdFunding Site and the Reply..
http://www.howardlindzon.com/two-idiots-log-into-a-crowdfunding-site-and-crowds-are-not-idiots-just-a-little-more-dangerous/

Six Myths About Renewable Energy
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324432404579052900100464562.html}

Friday

Smartphone Cameras at 41 Megapixels Pressure Canon, Nikon
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-18/smartphone-cameras-at-41-megapixels-pressure-canon-nikon.html}

JPM, Low rates won't cause asset bubbles
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/09/jp-morgan-low-rates-wont-cause-asset-bubbles/}

How to Turn Your iPhone Into a Lego Masterpiece
{http://adage.com/article/creativity-pick-of-the-day/turn-iphone-a-lego-masterpiece/244254/}

China’s one-child policy could be causing its trillion-dollar housing boom—and its eventual bust
{http://qz.com/124381/chinas-one-child-policy-could-be-causing-its-trillion-dollar-housing-boom-and-its-eventual-bust/}

Fed recoils from 1937 tightening error as jobs evaporate
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10319186/Fed-recoils-from-1937-tightening-error-as-jobs-evaporate.html}

oh and if you didn't know

Thursday 19th

Americans Are 110 Times More Likely to Die from Contaminated Food Than Terrorism
{http://www.alternet.org/media/americans-are-110-times-more-likely-die-contaminated-food-terrorism}

How to Raise Money
{http://www.paulgraham.com/fr.html}

Why didn’t the Fed taper? Because Congress is horrible.
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/18/why-didnt-the-fed-taper-because-congress-is-horrible/}

Give Back? Yes, It's Time For The 99% To Give Back To The 1%
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2013/09/17/give-back-yes-its-time-for-the-99-to-give-back-to-the-1/}

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
{http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/}

End in Sight: Truck Successfully Raised

A wrecked Truck was successfully lifted to an upright position on Tuesday, revealing a severely damaged right hand side. Salvage workers and residents are celebrating the technological feat.
At 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a foghorn wailed as engineers completed the complicated parbuckling operation raising the truck.

"We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen," said Jim, a project manager. "A perfect operation, I must say," he said, claiming there had been no apparent environmental spill detected.

Speaking to reporters, Bob, who took part in the operation, spoke of "great satisfaction" over the outcome. He said the maneuver to turn the truck upright had been perfectly calculated.

The parbuckling operation was the most dramatic and vulnerable of the salvage effort, because no one knew how badly damaged the right hand side of the truck would be. "The condition it's in is really shocking," said Harold. "It is disturbing because you are looking at a tragedy."

A 19-Hour Operation

In the end, it took 19 hours to lift the 20-meter-long , 4.8-meter-wide truck into an upright position. Ten to 12 hours had been initially planned, but drizzle led to delay in the operation's start by two hours. Then problems had to be resolved with the system of huge jacks and cables set on artificial platforms used to lift up the 12.5 ton truck.

"We raised the truck very slowly," said Bob.

'She's Strong Enough to Be Towed'

"We have to do a really detailed inspection of the damage," salvage master Roger told reporters. But "she was strong enough to come up like this, she's strong enough to be towed."

Wednesday 18th

Why China is making a big play to control Africa's media
{http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/media-agenda-china-buys-newsrooms-influence-in-africa/article14269323/}

Is the World ready for higher U.S. rates?
{http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/3253623/As-the-Fed-Readies-to-Taper-Is-the-World-Ready-for-Higher-US-Rates.html#.UjlS3Makp7U}

Abe Turns Pitchman, Says Japan Is Now A Buy
{http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/09/17/pm-abe-turns-pitchman-says-japan-is-now-a-buy/}

Monday

The peak in world oil production is yet to come

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/09/the_peak_in_wor_1.html

Friday 13th

Ethically speaking, we should all be eating roadkill.
{http://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/eating-roadkill/}

The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldman Sachs—and That Should Worry You
{http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114577/commodities-trading-hedge-funds-spook-wall-st-banks}

Arkansas Town Hosts World Championship Squirrel Cook Off
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324094704579063820643875500.html?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks}

Tuesday 10th Sept

LONDON is turning inside out. The great inversion
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/09/mapping-gentrification}

China embraces 'British Model', ditching Mao for Edmund Burke
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10294488/China-embraces-British-Model-ditching-Mao-for-Edmund-Burke.html}

Josh Brown on 'Fate or Destiny?'
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/09/09/fate-or-destiny/}

Seriously, Read The Onion If You Want To Understand Syria
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-onion-knows-satire-and-syria-2013-9}

Monday 9th September

Indonesia: 6 indicators of worsening situation
{http://soberlook.com/2013/09/update-on-indonesia-6-indicators-of.html}

Tokyo’s winning 2020 Olympics bid will only worsen Japan’s debt headache
{http://qz.com/122238/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-japan-debt/}

Riches beyond belief
{http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/so-you-want-to-invent-your-own-currency/}

Not a monetary phenomenon, 70's inflation
{http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4561.html}

The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary
{http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-History-of-Scary-Clowns-217771511.html#Scary-Clowns-Halloween-parade-631.jpg}

Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack
{http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/05/201268/russia-releases-100-page-report.html#.Ui3KPMakp7U}

Thursday 22Aug

The financial unraveling of southeast Asia
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/the-financial-unraveling-of-southeast-asia.html}

Safe haven bubble pops
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/08/safe-haven-bubble-pops/}

{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/08/world-bank-sees-1-trillion-bill-for-rising-seas/}

Assorted links Singapore
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/assorted-links-singapore.html}

Capital Flows Back to U.S. as Markets Slump Across Asia
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-19/clouds-gather-over-asian-economies-as-capital-flows-back-to-u-s-.html}

Which famous economist are you most similar to?
{http://www.whichfamouseconomistareyoumostsimilarto.com/}

http://www.simonstalenhag.se/index.html




The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running A Business
{http://jamesaltucher.quora.com/The-Ultimate-Cheat-Sheet-For-Starting-And-Running-A-Business}

Tuesday 20th August

China Trading Error Reduces Investor Confidence in Stocks
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-18/china-trading-error-reduces-investor-confidence-in-stocks.html}

China Prepares to Bail Itself Out
{http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/china-prepares-to-bail-itself-out.html}

Housing prices rose in 69 out of 70 of China’s biggest cities. That’s pretty scary
{http://qz.com/116538/housing-prices-rose-in-69-out-of-70-of-chinas-biggest-cities-thats-pretty-scary/}

On the Phenomenon of Bullsh1t Jobs
{http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/}

Explained..
What makes the ouija board move
{http://mindhacks.com/2013/08/15/what-makes-the-ouija-board-move/}
& BS Police
{http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/08/16/james-randi-the-amazing-meeting-and-the-bullshit-police.html}

Friday

China drought leaves 13 million thirsty
{http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-08/15/content_16897560.htm}

The mystery of the vanishing gun inventor
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23709471}

Scientists Gain New Insight Into Climate Change
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/new-insight-climate-change/}

Thursday

Cronies and capitols
{http://www.economist.com/news/business/21583242-businesspeople-have-become-too-influential-government-cronies-and-capitols}

Where the wealthy get their income
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/100958750}

The cruel trick played by history on Milton Friedman
{http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-cruel-trick-played-by-history-on.html}

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
{http://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/}

Aug 14 2013

What People (Don’t) Know About The Deficit
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/what-people-dont-know-about-the-deficit/?_r=1&}

Stairway to Hell: A Spanish Skyscraper's Elevator Disaster
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/architect-forgets-elevator-for-47-floor-skyscraper-in-spain-a-916082.html}

Penny-Stock Fraud Operators Mastered The Art Of Cross-Selling
{http://dealbreaker.com/2013/08/penny-stock-fraud-operators-mastered-the-art-of-cross-selling/}

15 Really Strange Beaches
{http://www.theworldgeography.com/2013/08/strange-beaches.html}

Chinese cargo ship sets sail for Arctic short-cut
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/05daa11e-0274-11e3-880d-00144feab7de.html#axzz2bbfn4Tvp}

The 5 Best Bottles Of Gin In The World
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-5-best-bottles-of-gin-in-the-world-2013-8}


Awesome
{http://lifehacker.com/5927857/top-10-diy-miracles-you-can-accomplish-with-a-1-binder-clip}

Monday

I warn you, Mr Carney – a housing bubble is coming
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/kamal-ahmed/10235529/I-warn-you-Mr-Carney-a-housing-bubble-is-coming.html}

Hacks
HOWTO: Ultra-cheap Sous-vide
{http://boingboing.net/2013/08/11/howto-ultra-cheap-sous-vide.html}

How to Make Free Ringtones in iTunes
{http://mashable.com/2013/08/08/free-itunes-iphone-ringtones/#_}

Friday 9th Aug

The changing debate over China’s economy
{http://blog.mpettis.com/2013/08/the-changing-debate-over-chinas-economy/}

How to Convince Investors
{http://www.paulgraham.com/convince.html}

Defend Europe, if you still dare
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025311/defend-europe-if-you-still-dare/}

Mark Carney: banks need to reconnect with society
{http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/08/mark-carney-banks-need-to-reconnect-with-society}

That was Thursday

'Critical phase' for Iter fusion dream
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23408073}

Coming Collapse of China? (excerpt)
{http://blog.yardeni.com/2013/08/coming-collapse-of-china-excerpt.html}

Ritholtz
Blame the Economists . . .
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/blame-the-economists/}
& reference piece
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/why-economists-suck/}

Manipulating Bad Financial Data
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/manipulating-bad-financial-data/}

7th August

Analysis: China risks following Japan into economic coma
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-china-economy-japan-analysis-idUSBRE96S10P20130729}

Indo, most undervalued EM market in the world?
{http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/the-most-undervalued-emerging-market-in-the-world/}

India Rupee Recovers From Record Low
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323968704578651082347376760.html}

Aykroyd: Let Me Explain the End of `Trading Places'
{http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2013-08-06/aykroyd-let-me-explain-the-end-of-trading-places}

Aug 06

{http://humblestudentofthemarkets.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/market-perception-of-china-macro-risk.html}

Should you delete all emails you get while you are on holiday?
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23547802}

The 25 Best Bloggers, 2013 Edition
{http://techland.time.com/2013/08/05/the-25-best-bloggers-2013-edition/}

RBS Market Manipulator Got Canned Because Some Janitor Posed As A Bond Guy And For No Other Reason, Says RBS Market Manipulator
{http://dealbreaker.com/2013/08/rbs-market-manipulator-got-canned-because-some-janitor-posed-as-a-bond-guy-and-for-no-other-reason-says-rbs-market-manipulator/}

Miners return to hedging as gold prices lose shine
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3dcc8ecc-fd0e-11e2-955a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2bAUXrMQ6}

Friday 2nd August

Japan has not learnt the lessons of its lost decade
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f80a2eba-fa8a-11e2-87b9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2amU9FYZj}

County in Shaanxi in a Deep Hole as Mining Bubble Pops
{http://english.caixin.com/2013-08-01/100564292.html}

Economists Behaving Badly, Redux
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/economists-behaving-badly-redux/?_r=0}

Asset Allocation Strategies
{http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/07/31/asset-allocation-strategies-2/}

Thursday 1st August

China Stocks World’s Worst Losing $748 Billion on Slump
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/china-stocks-world-s-worst-losing-748-billion-on-slump.html}

We could very well be entering into a multi-decade period of much lower price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios.
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pe-ratios-to-drop-20-in-coming-years-2013-07-31}

Gold
China launches two new gold ETFs
{http://emergingmoney.com/china/china-launches-two-new-gold-etfs/}
On Au
{http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/on-au.html}
On-On Au; What is the payoff structure of gold?
{http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/what-is-payoff-structure-of-gold.html}

Wednesday 31st July

Russian Potash Producer Signals End to Global Cartel
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324354704578637613345900562.html}

Some Investing Stories Sound Good Until You Analyze Them
{http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/your-money/some-investing-stories-sound-good-until-you-analyze-them.html?_r=1&}

China Is Set to Suffer the Skyscraper Curse
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-29/china-is-set-to-suffer-the-skyscraper-curse.html}

Tuesday 30th July

5 reasons the Fed's taper will begin in September
{http://soberlook.com/2013/07/5-reasons-feds-taper-to-begin-in.html}

A great China reckoning might not happen in quite the way you’d expect
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/07/30/1585282/a-great-china-reckoning-might-not-happen-in-quite-the-way-youd-expect/}

Will China's economy crash?
{http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/29/opinion/pettis-china-economy}

Friday 26th

Worries about China
{http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/07/worries_about_c.html}

Is China's debt nightmare a province called Jiangsu?
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/24/china-economy-debt-idUSL4N0FQ02820130724}

Broad-Minded? London Mayor Spurs Berlin Public Sex Debate
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/london-mayor-boris-johnson-sparks-berlin-debate-on-sex-in-public-a-913112.html}

July 25

Explaining the commodity warehouse trade with scripture
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/07/23/1578802/explaining-the-commodity-warehouse-trade-with-scripture/}

Goldman on who’s really wagging the oil market
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2011/10/04/691986/goldman-on-whos-really-wagging-the-oil-market/}

Gold stocks, What The Heck Happened?
{http://www.indexuniverse.com/hot-topics/19372-gdx-what-the-heck-happened.html}

Wednesday 24th July

China capitulates
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025237/china-capitulates/}

Some Thoughts on Recent Chinese GDP Growth
{http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/07/some_thoughts_o_4.html}

{Six Reasons to Expect Inflation}
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/23/six-reasons-to-expect-inflation/?mod=WSJBlog}

Tuesday 23rd July

When have econ blogs changed your mind about something?
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/when-have-econ-blogs-changed-your-mind.html

on the back of this...
Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/16/smaller-cheaper-faster-does-moores-law-apply-to-solar-cells/

The SEC’s important case against Stevie Cohen
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/07/21/the-secs-important-case-against-stevie-cohen/

22nd July

China super cycle not ending, just shifting
{http://www.theage.com.au/business/china-super-cycle-not-ending-just-shifting-20130719-2q9wt.html}

China’s Ponzi Bicycle Is Running Into A Brick Wall
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/chinas-ponzi-bicycle-is-running-into-a-brick-wall/}

G20 report warns of global tax chaos
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/g20-report-warns-global-tax-chaos}

Quad Highlights
{http://linkseffect.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/perth-and-kinross-20130713-00046jpg.html}

Quad pics

First hill














This was the climb down to the loch for the last mountain, number 7

Times

Right to left, Munro 1 (Meall Greigh), 4 (Ben Lawers), 5 (Beinn Ghlas) & 7 (Maell nan Tarmachan)

All photos here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildfoxevents/sets/72157634596361876/