Brexit bad boys

https://www.businessinsider.com/twenty-one-biggest-donors-to-the-leave-brexit-campaign-2017-5?r=UK&IR=T

gilets jaunes 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/commentary-macron-versus-the-yellow-vests-a-1243724.html

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2018/12/11/yellow-vests-and-tax-justice/#xtor=RSS-32280322.

http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-pens-gel-ballpoint-rollerball-felt-fountain.html

https://ritholtz.com/2018/11/mib-scott-adams-on-putting-yourself-in-a-position-to-get-lucky/

The seven deadly paradoxes of cryptocurrency

{https://bankunderground.co.uk/2018/11/13/the-seven-deadly-paradoxes-of-cryptocurrency/}

Yanis explains all

{https://youtu.be/gGeevtdp1WQ}

AI Beats 20 Lawyers In Legal Showdown

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-29/ai-beats-20-lawyers-legal-showdown

Billionaire murder 

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-apotex-billionaire-murder/

What “Capitalism” Is and How It Affects People

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-capitalism-is

Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/17/economic-lies-neoliberalism-taxpayers

Trump and Jamal Khashoggi— Saudi Arabia Has Been Bribing the US with Arms Sales for Years

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/not-just-trump-saudi-arabia-bribing-us-arms-sales-years.html

A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-assassination-us-yemen-uae-spear-golan-dahlan

When It Comes To Fraud, As With Any Horror Movie, The Phone Call Is Coming From Inside The House

{An internal actor is still far more likely to be behind a damaging fraud upon the company than a shadowy hacker.}

Technology improves, understanding dose not.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/10/improving-not-learning.html

NEWS

Top 100 Economics Blogs Of 2018

https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/economics-blogs/#financial

The 25 Best Economics Podcasts Of 2018

https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/economics-podcasts/

https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/

Always ignore sunk costs

http://ritholtz.com/2018/09/ignore-sunk-costs/

victory royale
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/i-played-fortnite-and-figured-out-the-universe/559940/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=5b71175d04d30134310de5d2_ta&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Krugman on Bitcoin
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/31/1533043848000/Krugman-gets-it/

10 Questions to ask before buying a  stock

https://behavioralvalueinvestor.com/blog/2018/7/29/the-skeptics-checklist

and...

Did Austerity Cause Brexit?
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/381-2018_fetzer.pdf

so in a few years we should have a pogrom....

Peloton
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyclings-best-performance-enhancer-riding-in-the-peloton-1532534354

I'm sure this is important to read..
How To Use Bureaucracies
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/brQwWwZSQbWBFRNvh/how-to-use-bureaucracies

Krug on trump

He doesn’t want negotiations with our allies and trading partners to succeed; he wants them to fail. And by the time everyone realizes this, the damage may be irreversible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-nato-failure.html?partner=rss&emc=rss


DD's retirement speech 

comment section the best..

like talking to Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons

https://www.ft.com/content/ee9c34ac-86af-11e8-9199-c2a4754b5a0e

As we know, semicolons connect two independent clauses without a conjunction

https://themillions.com/2018/07/on-semicolons-and-the-rules.html

Replacing him would be like replacing a conjunction with a semicolon, efficient yet slightly controversial...

bojo ruined Britain

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/opinion/boris-johnson-resignation-brexit.html

How silver changed the world
https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html
https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_02.html
https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_03.html
https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_04.html

The B&N Podcast: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
{https://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/nassim-nicholas-taleb-podcast}


Satoshi Nakamoto IS BACK
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-30/key-passages-from-satoshi-nakamoto-excerpt-on-bitcoin-beginnings

the fatal flaw

In truth, hardware did not advance as quickly as I had anticipated and actually did me a disservice. I learned then to not speculate about the future. Because you usually get it wrong.

In referring back to Moore’s Law, I really did believe that computers would be equipped with hardware that by the time I write this, would be 100 times faster than it was ten years ago. I was wrong.

This is just disturbing...

y introducing a departmental target for blockchain efficiency savings, we can begin to generate a digital dividend to pass on to tax payers or to reinvest.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/04/1530677560000/Building-a-blockchain-Britain-in-Bloxwich--because-----/ 

classic computer programming utopian nonsense
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/06/25/1529901000000/The-John-Taylor-backed--stablecoin--that-s-backed-by--um--stability/


Analysts Are Trying to Make You Click on Research Headlines and the Results Are Terrifying......

Brexit’s Big Short: How Pollsters Helped Hedge Funds Beat the Crash
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/brexit-big-short-how-pollsters-helped-hedge-funds-beat-the-crash

Tariffs Are the Wrong Response to China
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariffs-are-the-wrong-response-to-china-1529670600

best book to read on each country
{https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/stochastically-best-book-read-country.html}

Bulls and Bears: Why central banks should stabilize the stock market
http://www.rogerfarmer.com/rogerfarmerblog/2018/5/30/why-the-financial-markets-are-inefficient

Small talk and charm

https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2018/05/how-to-be-charming-2/

It's all over

http://ritholtz.com/2018/05/futures-trading-changed-bitcoin-prices/

Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/charging-electric-scooters-is-a-cutthroat-business/560747/

for j https://boingboing.net/2018/05/05/how-to-improve-at-fortnite-bat.html
for n https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html

betting cracked


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code

he’s a millennial, full of that generation’s bracing honesty

{https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/business/blockchain-blockheads-bitcoin-mania.html}

21 Books You Don’t Have to Readhttps://www.gq.com/story/21-books-you-dont-have-to-read

Discussion of “Radical Markets"
https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html

Comey
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-on-donald-trump-with-james-comey-a-1203989.html

Yanis
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto?CMP=share_btn_tw

Dumb Bitcoin
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-monetary-system

Pastry in Paris
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-paris-best-pastries/

Oh dear I hope not true
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/uk-refused-to-raid-lycamobile-citing-its-tory-donations?utm_term=.dmWWKPy8ea#.ah1y9Dkjev

windrush effect

Windrush: More than just coincidental errors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43804308

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/17/streets-britain-rich-poor-uk-beggars

There used to be two kinds of words: written or spoken
https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/

The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/ultimate-conversation-on-healthy-eating-and-nutrition.html

Good investors attempt to quantify risk. They should do the same for luck.http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/ironies-of-luck/

Suggested Media Diet

Suggested Media Diet

two great listens

Great pod on luck and fate
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/
live longer


https://tunein.com/radio/Invest-Like-the-Best-p911793/?topicId=112204932

Clear negative arguments on Blockchain
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/05/bitcoin-is-based-on-the-blockchain-pipe-dream

Multiplex Tie breaker
https://hbr.org/2018/01/8-questions-to-ask-someone-other-than-what-do-you-do

http://thereformedbroker.com/2018/03/01/1234-lets-have-a-trade-war/

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/02/22/2198937/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-millennial-avocado-proposals-edition/

It's finally ready..

Great work #artistpegasus

























and the original

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Brueghel_the_Elder

why my kids hate school dinners..

The system unites in homeostatic self-defence against change and unless some drastic triggering event intervenes.


{http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/}

We Are Truly Fu*ked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley?

cool blogger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3maq9Bqe8Q

cool web tool
Table https://unicode-table.com/en/

Encoder
Decoder
Flip

Conversational Presentation of Why Automation is Different This Time
{https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/HtikjQJB7adNZSLFf/conversational-presentation-of-why-automation-is-different}

If Aubrey de Gray is right, you could live forever / Boing Boing

China wants an “orderly exit” from bitcoin mining
https://qz.com/1174091/china-wants-an-orderly-exit-from-bitcoin-mining/


The Fatal Mistake Crypto Investors are Making Now
http://thereformedbroker.com/2018/01/07/the-fatal-mistake-crypto-investors-are-making-now/