html drum machines
Roland TR-909
{http://html909.com/}
Roland 808
{http://www.html5drummachine.com/}

Don't mourn the death of the commodities "super-cycle"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/12044596/Dont-mourn-the-death-of-the-commodities-super-cycle.html

Riot in the casino
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-10/feds-painted-itself-most-dangerous-corner-history-why-there-will-soon-be-riot-casino

Algorithms will manage trillions of dollars in a few years—thanks to millennials
{http://qz.com/569705/americans-are-actually-starting-to-pay-with-their-phones/}

The Market Does The Fed’s Dirty Work
http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2015/12/13/the-market-does-the-feds-dirty-work/

misquote of the day
the road to a covenant breach is paved with good acquisitions.
Bryce Elder ft alpha

Wynn Macau v's oil

Great but turns into a feminist moan 'Computing is short of female heroines'
{http://www.intelligentlifemagazine.com/intelligence/cracking-coder}

Gwynne Dyer: Why Turkey wanted to shoot down a Russian plane

{http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11552345}

Syrian Refugees, Jelly Beans, and Murderers
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/syrian-refugees-jelly-beans-and-murderers.html}

Many unhappy returns. funds, widows and orphans are too optimistic
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21678812-pension-funds-and-endowments-are-too-optimistic-many-unhappy-returns}

China Ponzi
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-19/china-has-a-1-2-trillion-ponzi-finance-problem-as-debt-piles-up}

The Single Best Interview Question You Can Ask
{https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/11/the-single-best-interview-question-you-can-ask/}

snail shell

minecraft coding

https://studio.code.org/s/mc

Coin flip markets
{http://awealthofcommonsense.com/playing-the-probabilities/}

{http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=gallaher++how+to+do+it#/?scroll=54}

edit and repeat...
One of the extraordinary accomplishments of the algorithmic trading programs in the beginning of the 21st century was that it managed to take financial markets that were inherently profound and render them trivial.


World energy watchdog fears 1970s oil crunch as Mid-East regains stranglehold
{https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=805465690489140608#editor/target=post;postID=6897291774103427179}

Bitcoin , MMM and the pyramid carson grain storing scheme.
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/11/09/2144388/im-no-crook-declares-mmm-scamster-while-claiming-credit-for-the-bitcoin-price-spike/}
&
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/bully-for-ben-carson.html}


Italy’s negative bond yields speaks volumes about Europe’s economy
{http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1875879/italys-negative-bond-yields-speaks-volumes-about-europes}

"In November 2011, Italy’s 2-year yield stood at a crippling 7 percent"

"Last week, Italy, a country with the second-highest public debt burden in Europe after Greece, sold 2-year bonds at a negative yield for the first time."

into perspective, sometimes we forget we are in a small market..
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/the-housing-shortage-and-low-real-interest-rates.html}

Nuneaton flower seller's view on leaving the EU

“I don’t want to leave the EU. I just want to leave Nuneaton,”

{http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21674797-many-ordinary-britons-are-resigned-staying-european-union-not-team-players}

35 Linked in tips
{http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/23454/The-Ultimate-Cheat-Sheet-for-Mastering-LinkedIn.aspx}

Strategic apathy and the mediocre investor
{http://abnormalreturns.com/2015/10/28/strategic-apathy-and-the-mediocre-investor/}

Bully
Decadence and Madness at the Top: Inside Britain's Secretive Bullingdon Club
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-bullingdon-club-and-the-excessive-british-elite-a-1057793.html}

On the hunt for the financial free lunch? Don’t.
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/get-there/on-the-hunt-for-the-financial-free-lunch-dont/2015/10/22/921b529e-71e5-11e5-8d93-0af317ed58c9_story.html?curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker}

Howard on Sports and minimalising error

{http://www.oaktreecapital.com/MemoTree/Inspiration%20from%20the%20World%20of%20Sports.pdf?curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker}

Chess attacks
{http://boingboing.net/2015/10/26/how-to-play-chess-like-an-assh.html}

‘The Old Man and the Sea’ Resonates Both with Political Dissidents and Xi Jinping
http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/caixin-media/hemingways-literary-escape

The Old Man and the Sea is at heart a hymn to perseverance, endurance, faith, and resourcefulness.

and some poems
{http://100.best-poems.net/top-100-best-poems.html}

Another Nail in the JFK Conspiracy
{https://hbr.org/2015/10/two-ways-to-keep-your-data-from-tricking-you}

Two Ways to Keep Your Data from Tricking You
https://hbr.org/2015/10/two-ways-to-keep-your-data-from-tricking-you

Excel links
{http://adamhgrimes.com/blog/basic-backtesting-in-excel-getting-data/}
{http://adamhgrimes.com/blog/basic-backtesting-in-excel-more-data/}

Only paying 1% on you management fees? tracker time
{http://video.ft.com/4566565366001/Fund-management-fee-wonderland/markets}


Politically Incorrect Paper of the Day
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/10/politically-incorrect-paper-of-the-day-so-sue-me.html}

Why We Hate Cheap Things
{http://www.thebookoflife.org/why-we-hate-cheap-things/}

Periculo ex maChina
The shadow convexity risk in the machine (and the VIX)
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/13/2142116/the-shadow-convexity-risk-in-the-machine-and-the-vix/}

 'The Vix, Cole notes, is experiencing epileptic seizures including erratic and violent outbursts up and down at the most frequent pace in history as new sources of structural short convexity interact with interventionist policy responses to crisis.'

= the volatility index has been volitile...perhaps

9 Simple Statements That Will Make You Think Differently About the World
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/05/17/9-simple-statements-that-will-make-you-think-diffe.aspx

Angus Deaton wins the Nobel
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/10/deaton.html}

The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (I)
{http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/the-uks-money-laundering-mess-i.html}

Albert Edwards on the next deflation
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/10/glencores-monstrous-debt/}


Glencore’s monstrous debt
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/10/glencores-monstrous-debt/}

Why it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/why-its-better-to-ask-for-forgiveness-than-permission.html}

This is the best time to borrow money. In all of history.
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/24/this-is-the-best-time-to-borrow-money-in-all-of-history/}

It will take more than patience to free rich economies from the zero-interest-rate world
{http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21666606-it-will-take-more-patience-free-rich-economies-zero-interest-rate-world-after}

These maps show the most popular running routes in 20 major cities
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/26/fascinating-maps-show-where-people-run-in-20-major-cities/}

China's stocks listed in Hong Kong are trading below book value
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/17fa7126-620d-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html?ftcamp=published_links/rss/markets/feed//product#axzz3mJQUC7xq}


To Progress and Back: The Rise and Fall of Erdogan's Turkey
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/turkey-under-erdogan-is-becoming-politically-riven-a-1054359.html

Fundamentals are only half the story,The E is only half of the PE
{http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/09/22/fundamentals-are-only-half-the-story/}

Every active satellite orbiting earth, interactive-graphic
{http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphic-every-active-satellite-orbiting-earth/}

Best drummer
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/drum-solo.html}

Howard Marks on why investing is not easy...
{http://www.oaktreecapital.com/memo.aspx}
{http://www.oaktreecapital.com/MemoTree/It's%20Not%20Easy.pdf}

oh, so that's why the "Banks have built up their compliance staffs. Gone are the firm-funded trips to Val d’Isere and the $1,000 meals at Le Gavroche."
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-14/was-tom-hayes-running-the-biggest-financial-conspiracy-in-history-}


another chewy one
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/11/2139913/why-its-not-an-oil-breakdown-story-its-a-money-story/}

The World’s Best Investment For the Next 12 Months
{http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2015/09/invest/}

Catch up

Europe's refugee crisis, explained

{http://www.vox.com/2015/9/5/9265501/refugee-crisis-europe-syria}

Meet the companies that are trying to profit from global warming
{http://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6031219/how-to-profit-off-of-global-warming}

For Treasurys, China Fears May Be Overblown
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/09/02/for-treasurys-china-fears-may-be-overblown/}

Economics Has a Math Problem
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/economics-has-a-math-problem}

A simple primer for understanding China’s downturn
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/a-simple-primer-for-understanding-chinas-downturn.html}

Why can't we stop for death?
{http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/09/why-cant-we-stop-death}

What are Chinese capital controls really?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/14/2137221/what-are-chinese-capital-controls-really-part-1/}

Glown Genius - Trump
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius

The Machine that Changed the World
http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2015.08.16/1772.html

Songs of the Week: 10 Great Albums From 2015 (So Far) You Might Have Missed
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/songs-of-the-week-10-great-albums-from-2015-so-far-you-might-have-missed/

Long-Distance Runners Mostly Think About How Hard Long-Distance Running Is
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/08/runners-mostly-think-about-how-hard-running-is.html?

Scary - Corbyn
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/13/9149623/jeremy-corbyn

from June...'For £3 you can vote in the Labour leadership election – Labour is panicking as apparently a lot of Tories are signing up to vote for Corbyn (this is now known as doing a Balotelli, after Liverpool’s player of the year was Balotelli due to other clubs’ fan voting for him in an open Liverpool supporters’ vote).
http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/entry/how-to-vote-for-our-next-leader-and-deputy-leader'

Which country is most likely to have the next financial crisis?
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/which-country-is-most-likely-to-have-the-next-financial-crisis.html}

Foreigners Flee Thai Stocks as Patience Wanes Over Pledges
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-02/foreigners-flee-thai-stocks-as-patience-thins-over-junta-pledges

Japan’s longest day: plot that nearly prevented war from ending
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8622748-4199-11e5-9abe-5b335da3a90e.html#axzz3ifBZfFb4

Borris Falstaff

SPIEGEL: A short time ago, you purchased three water cannons from Germany for a quarter of a million pounds, but the home secretary has forbidden their use in Britain. Was this your worst deal ever?

Johnson: Rubbish, it was brilliant deal.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spiegel-interview-with-london-mayor-boris-johnson-a-1047789.html

The Troubled Oil Business
https://medium.com/@amorylovins/the-troubled-oil-business-21ad430eff10

5 Things to Know About China’s Currency Devaluation
http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/08/10/5-things-about-chinas-currency-devaluation/

Six thoughts about the Yuan devaluation
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/six-thoughts-about-the-yuan-devaluation.html

How much gold should you have in your portfolio?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/04/2136207/how-much-gold-should-you-have-in-your-portfolio/}

Singapore as financial corporation
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/singapore-as-financial-corporation.html

Review: ‘The Economics of Inequality,’ by Thomas Piketty, Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/books/review-the-economics-of-inequality-by-thomas-piketty.html?src=twr&_r=0

Top 6 Myths Driving Oil Prices Down
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/08/top-6-myths-driving-oil-prices-down/?curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker


http://boingboing.net/2015/08/04/the-problem-with-vintage-magic.html
shops
{http://www.magicposters.com/buy/a-c.html}
{http://www.nnmagic.com/posters_magicoriginal/posters_ab.htm}

daily mail
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554831/Look-eyes-Amazing-collection-vintage-posters-shows-magicians-advertised-dark-arts-100-years-ago.html}

Everything seems to be a sideshow today
Greece, sideshow
China, sideshow
Gold, sideshow

An encouraging historical parallel to China’s stock bubble?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/07/29/2135566/an-encouraging-historical-parallel-to-chinas-stock-bubble/

Behavioral Finance Vs. DFA
Swedroe: Behavioral Finance Trumped
http://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/swedroe-behavioral-finance-trumped?nopaging=1&curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker

Gold Is Only Going to Get Worse
Our survey shows a majority of traders and investors aren't optimistic.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-28/gold-out-of-style-like-bell-bottom-trousers-signals-lower-prices?curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker

Opinion: Two reasons why gold may plunge to $350 an ounce
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/investors-need-to-consider-that-gold-may-fall-to-350-an-ounce-2015-07-29?siteid=rss&rss=1&curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker

The Great Bomb Transfer and Contagion
http://www.baldingsworld.com/2015/07/30/the-great-bomb-transfer-and-contagion/

The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New
{https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/the-37-best-websites-to-learn-something-new-895e2cb0cad4}

Analyzing the "Goodnight Moon" bedroom
{http://boingboing.net/2015/07/14/analyzing-the-goodnight-moon.html}

Learn Guitar

{http://get.yousician.com/}

Learn Chess
{https://www.chesscademy.com/}

Bitcoin move
{https://dizzynomics.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/what-do-you-call-a-freely-floated-rmb/}

"Greece "So, if we believe in the national income accounting identity Y=C+I+G+X, then we have positive outlooks for G, I, and X written into the numbers. I think it very much makes sense to look for a bounce back, quite soon."

Glad that's sorted then...

{https://medium.com/bull-market/greece-time-to-look-on-the-bright-side-55d86bca9536}

Guy Verhofstadt nails it on Greece
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/guy-verhofstadt-nails-it-on-greece.html}

The Bloomberg terminal: clunky, costly, addictive, ubiquitous
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d6c2d9c-1f61-11e5-ab0f-6bb9974f25d0.html#axzz3fNLPdyuO}

‘Wisdom of Crowds’ is Surprisingly Dumb
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/07/wisdom-of-crowds-is-surprisingly-dumb/

Can You Really Game Index Funds?
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-07/can-you-really-game-index-funds-

'Neither the Chinese stock slide or the Greek ‘no’ vote are having much of an effect on the gold price'
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/07/06/2133708/a-not-very-golden-crisis/}

7 key things to know about Greece’s debt crisis and what happens next
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/05/as-greece-votes-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nations-crisis/

Another 48hrs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33409625

more frank on Greece
http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5965.html

A hilarious Monty Python sketch explains why Greece is in a huge crisis
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/04/a-hilarious-monty-python-sketch-explains-why-greece-is-in-a-huge-crisis/?tid=pm_business_pop_b}

18 key facts about Greece that will leave you totally up to date about a huge crisis
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/03/18-key-facts-about-greece-that-will-leave-you-totally-up-to-date-about-a-huge-crisis/?tid=pm_business_pop_b}

http://boingboing.net/2015/07/01/cocktail-hour.html














original here
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7035823

The Psychology of Negotiation: 31 Tactics and Strategies
{http://www.nickkolenda.com/negotiation-tactics/}

Trade and growth – end of an era?
{http://www.voxeu.org/article/trade-and-growth-end-era}

Cognitive dissonance and still rising margin positions in China
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/24/2132702/cognitive-dissonance-and-still-rising-margin-positions-in-china/}

China Margin Trades Buckle Leaving $364 Billion at Risk
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-22/china-margin-trades-buckle-as-selloff-puts-364-billion-at-risk}

50 Common Cognitive Distortions
{https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201301/50-common-cognitive-distortions}

How A Slight Change In Mindset Accelerated My Learning Forever
{https://medium.com/the-cauldron/how-a-slight-change-in-mindset-accelerated-my-learning-forever-82c7abb4450c}

UK Oil & Gas in the ground
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/10/2131493/uk-oil-gas-in-the-ground/}

Chinese stocks in the MSCI
Index exclusion
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/06/chinese-stocks-msci#

Museums Can Change—Will They?
{http://www.democracyjournal.org/36/museums-can-change-will-they.php?page=all}

Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/08/bitcoin-isnt-the-future-of-money-its-either-a-ponzi-scheme-or-a-pyramid-scheme/}

How central banks have sown the seeds for the next financial crisis
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11651696/Another-downturn-could-still-come-but-nobody-can-tell-you-when.html}

The Ugly Truth About Horse Racing
{http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/the-ugly-truth-about-horse-racing/284594/}

Farming in the Sky
{http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/farming-in-the-sky/392045/}

some summertime reading..
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-03/books-that-earn-a-place-on-summer-reading-list}

Top financial websites to prepare for your trading day {http://mikebellafiore.tumblr.com/post/119942735307/top-financial-websites-to-prepare-for-your-trading}

5 Best Free Stock Screeners
{http://www.stocktradingtogo.com/2011/06/09/best-free-stock-screeners/}

How Things Break
Ali fought Liston 50 years ago. Two legends were born, but another was broken.
{http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/05/ali_liston_50th_anniversary_the_true_story_behind_neil_leifer_s_perfect.html}

The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014)
http://www.spin.com/2015/05/the-300-best-albums-of-the-past-30-years-1985-2014/

Oil Prices: Where Next? Here Are the Forecasts
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/05/19/oil-prices-where-next-here-are-the-forecasts/}

Romer - Physics versus Math
{http://paulromer.net/physics-versus-math/}

Ultimate Stock-Pickers’ Top 10 High-Conviction and New-Money Purchases
{http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=698304}

Deutsche Bank fires warning shot over UK vote on EU exit
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/54d81c8e-fd76-11e4-9e96-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3aedBjsmA

WTF
When Central Bankers Whisper Secrets{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-19/when-central-bankers-whisper-secrets}

Consuming wealth without spending a dime
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/05/consuming-wealth-without-spending-a-dime.html#more}

Love or hate them, East London’s hipsters have fuelled a vast economy
{http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/love-or-hate-them-east-london-s-hipsters-have-fuelled-vast-economy}

The UK Labour party should blame Keynes for their election defeat
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dd9c7ee-f71c-11e4-99aa-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3aFPMJ5ah

response
http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2015/05/blaming-keynes.html

Top 25 Downtown Josh Brown Quotes
{http://etfreference.com/articles/2015/1000058/top-25-downtown-josh-brown-quotes/}

{http://timothyandersonart.bigcartel.com/product/jurassic-park}

Board game odds
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/08/how-to-win-any-popular-game-according-to-data-scientists/#chess1}

Categry trading
{http://adamhgrimes.com/blog/technical-analysis-thinking-in-categories/}

Slot Psychology
{http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine-gambling-addiction-psychology-mobile-games}

hmmm... Stop-Go Austerity and Self-Defeating Recoveries
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/stop-go-austerity-and-self-defeating-recoveries/}

The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled…was convincing investors that volatility and risk were the same thing.
{http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/05/06/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-pulled-2/}

Bond and the 'tote katze sprungkraft'
{http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/05/05/bund-investors-lose-25-years-worth-of-yield-in-two-weeks/}

The Trader as Scapegoat
{http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/opinion/the-trader-as-scapegoat.html?&assetType=opinion&assetType=opinion&_r=0}

Negative interest rates put world on course for biggest mass default in history
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/11569329/Jeremy-Warner-Negative-interest-rates-put-world-on-course-for-biggest-mass-default-in-history.html
and the bite
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/29/2128115/no-alternative-you-say/

Billionaires versus big oil
http://fortune.com/2015/04/25/billionaires-versus-big-oil/

Tesla – What You Need to Believe Here
https://nemoincognito.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/tesla-what-you-need-to-believe-here/

Solar power will soon be as cheap as coal
http://qz.com/386261/solar-power-will-soon-be-as-cheap-as-coal/

Futuristic Simulation Finds Self-Driving “Taxibots” Will Eliminate 90% Of Cars, Open Acres Of Public Space
https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/futuristic-simulation-finds-self-driving-taxibots-will-eliminate-90-of-cars-open-acres-of-618a8aeff01

Avoiding easy losses
{http://adamhgrimes.com/blog/an-easy-way-to-avoid-some-losses/}

Dear SRA, a problem solved? Quindell
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/23/2127341/dear-sra-a-problem-solved/}

Sarao Trader :It smacks of post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/22/2127446/executing-trader-sarao/?}

"Attributing the Flash Crash to his activity is also highly problematic. It smacks of post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning. Or look at it this way.The complaint alleges that Sarao employed the layering strategy about 250 days, meaning that he caused 250 out of the last one flash crashes. I can see the defense strategy. When the government expert is on the stand, the defense will go through every day. “You claim Sarao used layering on this day, correct?” “Yes.” “There was no Flash Crash on that day, was there?” “No.” Repeating this 250 times will make the causal connection between his trading and Flash Clash seem very problematic, at best. Yes, perhaps the market was unduly vulnerable to dislocation in response to layering on 6 May, 2010, and hence his strategy might have been the straw that broke the camels back, but that is a very, very, very hard case to make given the very complex conditions on that day."

and more on Sarao
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-21/guy-trading-at-home-caused-the-flash-crash}

The bubble question & mean reversion
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/china-booming-stockmarket

'The Shanghai index, which includes China’s biggest companies from banks to oil majors, is trading at a forward PE of about 15, in line with its ten-year average'

Fast Money, Fast Markets by Joseph Y. Calhoun

http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2015/04/12/fast-money-fast-markets/

How Easy Money Drives the Stock Market By: Frank_Shostak
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article50190.html

World interest rates, more on the Bernank
{http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/04/world-interest-rates}

Are S&P 500 firms now 5/6 “dark matter” or intangibles?
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/04/are-firms-now-56-dark-matter-or-intangibles.html

MR: Ben Bernanke on the secular stagnation hypothesis
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/ben-bernanke-on-the-secular-stagnation-hypothesis.html}

Justified -
Rick Ferri’s 30 Year Market Forecasthttp://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/rick-ferri%E2%80%99s-30-year-market-forecast?nopaging=1&curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker

Why are interest rates so low? The Bernank

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30-why-interest-rates-so-low

Frenzied speculative activity in China's equity markets
{http://soberlook.com/2015/03/frenzied-speculative-activity-in-chinas.html}

QE: Central Banks Still Stoking the ‘Insanity Trade’
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/23/central-banks-still-stoking-the-insanity-trade/

Diner Beware
How restaurants trick you into eating less and spending more
{http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/diner-beware/386267/?utm_source=SFTwitter}

12 Best Online Courses for Learning Practical Business Skills
http://time.com/3749228/online-courses-business-skills/

We Buy Broken Gold
http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold

 U.S. Is Awash in Oil, But What About the Rest of the World?
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/17/u-s-is-awash-in-oil-but-what-about-the-rest-of-the-world/

How Scary Is the Bond Market?
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bond-market-crash-contagion-by-robert-j--shiller-2015-03

Thomas Piketty on the Euro Zone: 'We Have Created a Monster'
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/thomas-piketty-interview-about-the-european-financial-crisis-a-1022629.html
}

Could Apple Prove a Game-Changer for Gold?
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/03/could-apple-prove-a-game-changer-for-gold/}

The Land Theory of Value
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/03/the-land-theory-of-value.html#more}

worth a pint in the Windmill
{http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/03/03/second-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-til-morning/}

The Strange Urge to Raise Rates
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/the-strange-urge-to-raise-rates/?_r=1}

What is a Trader, from Victor Niederhoffer
{http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=10032}

How Technology Tricks You Into Tipping More
{http://www.nirandfar.com/2015/02/tipping.html}

{http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks}

Study in Microeconomics, zips
{http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364}

Personal Money links
{http://abnormalreturns.com/2015/02/11/personal-finance-links-enough-for-you/}

Bordeaux maps

Borris in NY

{http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/london-tops-list-of-most-popular-cities-in-the-world-for-american-students-10037844.html}

10 Years After – Bordeaux 2005

{http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2015/02/10-years-after-bordeaux-2005}

Brief History of the Oil crash
{http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/2015/02/05/1612277de1.pdf}

Sovereign debt scares– is the U.S. immune?
{http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/02/sovereign-debt-scares-is-the-u-s-immune}

Conquering China’s Mountain of Debt
Cities and townships must give up their unorthodox borrowing
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/china-aims-to-reduce-local-governments-backdoor-borrowing}

Ultimate weekend Links list
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/weekend-links-7th-8th-feb-2015/}

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Tren Griffin
{http://awealthofcommonsense.com/dozen-things-ive-learned-tren-griffin/}

The Beginner’s Field Guide to Dim Sum
{http://luckypeach.com/dumpling-diplomacy/}

Grilled Cheese and $100 Million of Irrational Exuberance
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-05/grilled-cheese-truck-as-an-irrational-exuberance-indicator}

Stocks will be 'ripped to smithereens': SocGen bear
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/102400384}

Nails it every time, Joseph Calhoun on Bret Easton Eliss, oh and rates
{http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2015/02/01/less-than-zero/}

Cognitive vs. behavioral in psychology, economics, and political science
{http://andrewgelman.com/2015/01/30/cognitive-vs-behavioral-psychology-economics-political-science/}

Greece needs Thatcheropoulous
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/02/sentences-to-ponder-about-greece.html}

A High Holborn Pub Stroll – Part 1 | THE HOLBORN
http://theholbornmag.com/2013/01/11/a-holborn-pub-crawl-part-1/

And more
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10725161/Londons-best-historical-pubs-the-ultimate-tour.html}

The best adventure storieshttp://boingboing.net/2015/02/03/the-best-adventure-stories-for.html

Is Sweden an economically overrated country?
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/is-sweden-an-economically-overrated-country.html

Draghi's Dangerous Bet: The Perils of a Weak Euro
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/ecb-decision-to-weaken-euro-comes-with-pluses-and-minuses-a-1015322.html

Penny Stock Pawnbroker Had a Clever Trick to Get Paid.
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-29/penny-stock-pawnbroker-had-a-clever-trick-to-get-paid}

What’s driving the price of oil down?
'little tool you can use to calculate how much of the change in the price of oil between any two dates would be attributed to demand factors'

{http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/01/whats-driving-the-price-of-oil-down-2}

Lauren Randolph















{https://medium.com/vantage/elaborate-sets-and-casting-lead-to-one-evocative-photo-e5b56d48c7ab}

'We are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system'
{http://www.channel4.com/news/we-are-going-to-destroy-the-greek-oligarchy-system}

Dry January: was it really worth all the misery?{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11365360/Dry-January-was-it-really-worth-all-the-misery.html}

Bitcoins, Gold Bugs and Money
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-21/bitcoins-gold-bugs-and-money}

What European QE Will Look Like, and What Happens if It Doesn’t Work
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/01/19/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-european-qe-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/?mod=newsreel}

The 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767}

Deep Web Markets
{http://joel.mn/post/108657860988/deep-web-marketplaces}

Denmark cuts rates to stave off speculators

{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f241b36-9ff5-11e4-aa89-00144feab7de.html??

ftcamp=crm/email/_DATEYEARFULLNUM___DATEMONTHNUM___DATEDAYNUM__/nbe/

FirstFTEurope/product&siteedition=uk#axzz3PKDGygwK}

The Swiss currency bombshell – cause and effect

{http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2015/01/18/the-swiss-currency-bombshell-cause-and-effect/}

Not your usual oil-price decline effect
'The key point to takeaway: the drop in commodities may be
supply/demand agonistic and more reflective of a global dollar
liquidity shortage than anything else.'
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/19/2091982/not-your-usual-oil-price-decline-effect/}

Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable?
{http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/is-a-climate-disaster-inevitable.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0}

Terrorism is Not the Bigger Danger
{http://jasonkapkirwok.com/about/articles-by-jason-kapkirwok/57-terrorists-are-not-the-real-danger/}

Bankers' Bonuses, Roman Style
{http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-clarke/bankers-bonuses-roman-style}

The Secret Scam of Cheap Earbuds
{http://gizmodo.com/5617200/the-secret-scam-of-cheap-earbuds}

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
{http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids1/}

Drones are getting better faster than anyone expected
{http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/9/7519305/ces-2015-drones-intel-realsense-asctec-firefly}

Nine Economics Mysteries Explained
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-15/nine-economics-mysteries-explained}

Vanguard’s record inflows prove passive is massive
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/43812508-9745-11e4-9636-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3OyHu2nQ8}

Swissie fallout

{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-15/switzerland-ambushes-the-global-economy}

It’s Amateur Hour in the Booming Chinese Stock Market
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-11/it-s-amateur-hour-in-the-booming-chinese-stock-market.html

Brent Crude Future prices

White line is Feb15 2015 future moving up in 6 monthly contracts to August 2019

No growth or a fear bubble?
{https://medium.com/@DuncanWeldon/no-growth-or-a-fear-bubble-ad8cabe84fad}

The global economy could be on the verge of a once-in-a-generation transformation
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11334099/The-global-economy-could-be-on-the-verge-of-a-once-in-a-generation-transformation.html}

Only 1.6 percent of world's oil production at risk at $40
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/09/us-oil-supplies-idUSKBN0KI1XN20150109}

Entire oil complex slips into contango for first time since 2009
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/09/us-markets-oil-contango-idUSKBN0KI0VJ20150109}

The Real Story of How America Became an Economic Superpower
{http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-real-story-of-how-america-became-an-economic-superpower/384034/}

Britain’s self-perpetuating property racket
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b82aa19a-95c4-11e4-a390-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3OK10Ze5r}

The Real Story of How America Became an Economic Superpower
{http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-real-story-of-how-america-became-an-economic-superpower/384034/}

Why Fighting Oligarchs Is a Bad Idea
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-07/why-fighting-oligarchs-is-a-bad-idea}

Five Smart Beta Predictions for 2015
{http://www.blackrockblog.com/2015/01/07/smart-beta-predictions-2015/}

One Economic Theory to Explain Everything
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-08/one-economic-theory-to-explain-everything}

This Nobel Economist Spotted the Last Two Bubbles—Here’s What He Says About the Bond Boom
{http://time.com/money/3655601/shiller-psychology-bond-rally/}

Locking in Low Yields for 30 Years? Why, Yes
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/01/07/locking-in-low-yields-for-30-years-why-yes/}

“I Knew It All Along”
{http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/06/i-knew-it-all-along.aspx}

Despite Current Glut, Oil Producers Continue Game of Chicken
{http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/01/despite-current-glut-oil-producers-continue-game-chicken.html}

Thinking About International Bond Yields
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/thinking-about-international-bond-yields/?_r=0}

UK pension deficits double to more than £100bn
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a6dcdce-95b7-11e4-a390-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3O7tMgnAK}

The economics of stuff
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/01/the-economics-of-stuff.html}

a crude bottom
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/06/2079512/of-crude-bottoms-and-rins/}


It's been fun. bye bye Bitcoin
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/05/2079012/who-needs-caveat-emptor-when-youve-got-bitcoin/}