Before an empire collapses
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-23/how-empires-collapse}

9 Rules of Risk Management
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/04/29/9-rules-of-risk-management/}

6 Books That Will Change The Way You Think For The Better
{http://www.businessinsider.com/books-that-can-change-the-way-you-think-2014-4}

1. "Collected Maxims and Other Reflections" by La Rochefoucauld
2. "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene
3. "Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War" by Xenophon
4. "Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer
5. "Models of My Life" by Herbert Simon
6. "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius

Piketty's "Capital," in a Lot Less than 696 Pages
{http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/pikettys-capital-in-a-lot-less-than-696-pages/}

Strip private banks of their power to create money
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f000b18-ca44-11e3-bb92-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2zqQZ2pt3}
and
Ban Banks
{http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock}

The strong pound is a myth – but in any case, bring it on
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100027087/the-strong-pound-is-a-myth-but-in-any-case-bring-it-on/}

Albert Edwards: China Headed Toward Outright Deflation
{http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/04/albert-edwards-china-headed-toward-outright-deflation/}

Castles in the Air
{http://www.thefinancialphilosopher.com/2014/04/foundations-vs-castles-in-the-air.html}

The economist who revealed how media bias works
{http://qz.com/202391/tk-questions-for-matthew-gentzkow-who-just-became-americas-hottest-young-economist/}

A Dozen Things I have Learned from Jeff Bezos
{http://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-from-jeff-bezos/}

Buffett in the Down Years
{http://awealthofcommonsense.com/buffett-years/}

Want one
{http://www.wired.com/2014/04/juno-power-jumpr/}

Behavioural Investing/Economics Blogs?
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/04/behavioral-economics-blogs/ Here are a few I have been checking out lately:
The Psy-Fi Blog
Carl Richards Behavior Gap
TraderFeed
Dan Ariely
British Psychological Society
Stirling Behavioural Science Blog Experimental and Behavioral Economics
The Behavioral Investor

Meaningful Activities Protect the Brain From Depression
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/how-meaningful-activities-protect-the-teen-brain-from-depression/360988/

MY MISTAKES
http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#communism

9 Wonderful French Expressions That Have No Good English Equivalent
{http://www.businessinsider.com/concepts-in-french-that-dont-exist-in-english-2014-4}


Beware Of The Walking Dead In Your Portfolio
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2014/04/16/beware-of-the-walking-dead-in-your-portfolio/

By One Measure, Last Week Was the Worst for IPOs in a Decade
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/21/by-one-measure-last-week-was-the-worst-for-ipos-in-a-decade/}

Gold: In search of a new standard
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e31b0f44-b0e5-11e3-bbd4-00144feab7de.html#axzz2z8j69J00}

Why Europe needs the City's financial weapons of mass destruction
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/10766379/Why-Europe-needs-the-Citys-financial-weapons-of-mass-destruction.html}

The problems of HFT, Joe Stiglitz edition
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/15/the-problems-of-hft-joe-stiglitz-edition/}

This graduation speech teaches you everything you need to know about economics in 297 words
{http://www.vox.com/2014/4/19/5631654/this-graduation-speech-teaches-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about}

Why China's haste to internationalise the renminbi?
{http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1301-why-chinas-haste-to-internationalise-the-renminbi/}

The short guide to Capital in the 21st Century
{http://www.vox.com/2014/4/8/5592198/the-short-guide-to-capital-in-the-21st-century}

U.S. warns China over currency depreciation
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/07/us-g20-usa-idUSBREA361RG20140407}

http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/150640_02.jpg
{http://www.smokestak.co.uk/}
{http://www.smokestak.co.uk/images/Smokestak-illustration.png}

How politics makes us stupid
{http://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-makes-us-stupid}?

GREEN BELT SCAREMONGERING OBSCURES A HOUSING SHORTAGE THAT IS TRULY FRIGHTENING
{http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/green_belt_scaremongering_obscures_a_housing_shortage_that_is_truly_frightening}

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For What You Should Do With All Of Your Money
{http://www.businessinsider.com/money-cheat-sheet-2014-4}

The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street
An Adaptation From 'Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,'
{http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michael-lewis.html?_r=0}

10 reasons why 76% of Americans ignore climate disasters
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-reasons-why-americans-ignore-climate-disasters-2014-04-03

The misty world of marijuana stocks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26682207

more on HFT,
{http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=8333}

Do You Need Commodities in Your Portfolio?
{http://awealthofcommonsense.com/need-commodities-portfolio/}

long read for later
Dropped
Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive — and perhaps of all time — back away from his art to open a construction business?
{http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/}

time wasters...
The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30
{http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/the-30-top-thinkers-under-30-introduction-76201/}

Explaining Bitcoin to your dog
{http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/02/business/dealbook/How-to-explain-bitcoin-to-your-mom.html?_r=0}

House price gap between London and rest of UK widest on record
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ee015d0-ba32-11e3-aeb0-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2xndyRXJh}

Hong Kong's fish farms in the sky
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26627408}

"Markets crash all the time. You should, at minimum, expect stocks to fall at least 10% once a year, 20% once every few years, 30% or more once or twice a decade, and 50% or more once or twice during your lifetime. Those who don't understand this will eventually learn it the hard way."
-Morgan Housel

Michael Lewis Doesn't Like High-Frequency Traders
'Big HFTs like Knight/Getco and Virtu trade vast volumes of stock while still taking in much less money than the traditional market makers: $688 million and $623 million in 2013 market-making revenue, respectively, for Knight and Virtu, versus $2.6 billion in equities revenue for Goldman Sachs and $4.8 billion forJ.P. Morgan. Even RBC made 594 million Canadian dollars trading equities last year. The high-frequency traders make money more consistently than the old-school traders, but they also make less of it. '
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-31/michael-lewis-doesn-t-like-high-frequency-traders}
& covered again in Margin Revolution
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/matt-levine-on-michael-lewis-and-hft.html}

The 25-Year-Old at the Helm of Lonely Planet
{http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/The-25-Year-Old-at-the-Helm-of-Lonely-Planet.html?curator=MediaREDEF}

Why homeopathy is nonsense, that's put that one to bed...
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/economist-explains}