12/12/12

Here’s your best bet to beat a ‘rigged’ market
Commentary: To make money in stocks, time is on your side
{http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-your-best-bet-to-beat-a-rigged-market-2012-12-11}

The VIX – Is It Telling Us Anything? At All?
{http://pragcap.com/the-vix-is-it-telling-us-anything-at-all}

Defending the Romans, I'm still not a defender of the economic policies of the Roman Emperor, Diocletian.
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/12/12/1304122/defending-the-romans/}

Tuesday 11th December

Asian Bond Markets Come to Life
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578170801545095258.html?mod=googlenews_wsj}

Lights Out For China’s Solar Power Industry?
{https://thediplomat.com/pacific-money/2012/12/08/lights-out-for-chinas-solar-power-industry/}

Move Over, Michigan, China Is The World's Next Rust Belt
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/12/09/move-over-michigan-china-is-the-worlds-next-rustbelt/}

Goodbye Europe
A British exit from the European Union looks increasingly possible. It would be a reckless gamble
{http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21567940-british-exit-european-union-looks-increasingly-possible-it-would-be-reckless}

Ignore the doom merchants, Britain should get fracking
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9733518/Ignore-the-doom-merchants-Britain-should-get-fracking.html}

Gertler Earns Billions as Mine Deals Fail to Enrich Congo
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-05/gertler-earns-billions-as-mine-deals-leave-congo-poorest.html}

Your Money: The "Apple Tax" - America's costly obsession
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/10/us-apple-tech-tax-idUSBRE8B911120121210}

Was CIA financier-turned Wall Street banker assassinated by the bearded bag lady? New evidence may solve mystery of 1985 shooting
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245682/Nicholas-Deak-Colleague-questions-murder-CIA-financier-killed-homeless-woman.html#ixzz2EdXWTt9k}

Brazil Is One Of The Few Truly Independent Countries In The World
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-luckiest-people-on-the-planet-2012-12}

December 10th

Silly Season Begins!
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/12/09/silly-season-begins/}

Schedule for Week of Dec 9th
{http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/12/schedule-for-week-of-dec-9th.html}

Honey Laundering
{http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/honey-laundering}

This Is the Greatest Hoodie Ever Made
{http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/12/american_giant_hoodie_this_is_the_greatest_sweatshirt_known_to_man.single.html}

Friday the 7th December

The thing about Apple…Buy, sell or hold?
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/12/06/the-thing-about-apple/}

32 Economics Journalists You Should Be Following On Twitter
{http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/32-economics-journalists-twitter_n_2200002.html}

How Regulations Led to High-Frequency Trading
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/100276801}

Dec 6

Why Would Anyone Want to Invest in China?
{http://dragonflycap.com/2012/12/05/wed-am-2/}

A Counter Example to the 'Tragedy of the Commons'
{http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/12/-a-counter-example-to-the-tragedy-of-the-commons.html}

Mongolia finds China can be too close for comfort
{http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-12-05/for-mongolia-chinas-too-close-for-comfort}

 Surfboard-Sized Robot Just Propelled Itself Across The Ocean
{http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681003/this-surfboard-sized-robot-just-propelled-itself-across-the-ocean#1}


Storage space
{http://twistedsifter.com/2012/07/efficient-space-saving-furniture-ideas-for-kids-rooms-tumidei-spa/}

Wednesday 5th December

How to get what you want.
{http://thebrowser.com/videos/science-persuasion}

Loss of income caused by banks as bad as a 'world war', says BoE's Andrew Haldane
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9719300/Loss-of-income-caused-by-banks-as-bad-as-a-world-war-says-BoEs-Andrew-Haldane.html}

The Austerity Dictionary. Twitter generated dictionary
{http://brianmlucey.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/the-austerity-dictionary/}

Chart of the week: the rise and fall in Chinese equities
{http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/12/04/chart-of-the-week-the-fall-in-chinese-equities/#axzz2E5X9QK5G}
 see also the video, James Mackintosh, Short View {http://video.ft.com/v/1995032340001/China-s-tale-of-two-cities}

dec4

The world's commodity supercycle is far from dead
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9717728/The-worlds-commodity-supercycle-is-far-from-dead.html}

How tall can a Lego tower get?
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627}

‘Most Hardcore Nail House’ in Middle of Road Demolished
{http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/pictures/most-hardcore-nail-house-in-middle-of-road-demolished.html}

Just what is a recession?
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/12/business-cycles-0}

Is Spying on Corporate Jets Insider Trading?
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/100272132}

Iraqi builds a HELICOPTER to protect his country’s borders (but will it really fly?)
{http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241933/Iraqi-builds-HELICOPTER-protect-countrys-borders-really-fly.html}

Monday 3rd

The 4 big macro stories
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-big-stories-japanese-economy-china-green-shoots-europe-us-housing-the-fiscal-cliff-2012-11}

The Keynesian Fixation
{http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-keynesian-fixation/}

Greek debt "transformed into a zero-coupon perpetual bond”
{http://soberlook.com/2012/12/greek-debt-transformed-into-zero-coupon.html}

Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
{http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html}

Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California
{http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=megastorms-could-down-massive-portions-of-california}

30 11 12

Buy a House, Get a Visa: Coming Soon Everywhere?
{http://m.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2012/11/buy-house-get-visa-coming-soon-everywhere/3959/}

The monumental folly of rent-seeking
{http://www.johnkay.com/2012/11/21/the-monumental-folly-of-rent-seeking}

Cost of Pennies
{http://what-if.xkcd.com/22/}

Polar Ice Sheets Melt Faster
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323751104578149073844418936.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories}

29th November

 chief executive of Olam International, Sunny Verghese, told the BBC's Asia Business Report that his business is sound {http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20537072#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter}

Dead, Zig Ziglar: 10 Quotes That Can Change Your Life
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/11/28/zig-ziglar-10-quotes-that-can-change-your-life/}

The slow death of the stock-market investor, story of delining market volumes..
{http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/27/charts-of-the-day-equity-volume-edition/}

Review: Assholes: A Theory
{http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/23/assholes-a-theory/}

28 November

The World According to Xi Jinping
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/asia-watch/story/the-world-according-xi-jinping-20121128}

Pandemonium on China’s stock market
{http://www.danwei.com/pandemonium-on-chinas-stock-market/}

“The global economy is weakening again”
{http://oecdinsights.org/2012/11/27/the-global-economy-is-weakening-again/}

Hike The 2,000-Mile Trail That Most People Never Finish
{http://www.businessinsider.com/the-appalachian-trail-2012-11}

NOV 27

Here is an incontrovertible fact, tech stock rallies explained
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/11/26/here-is-an-incontrovertible-fact/}

The decade of Xi Jinping
{http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2012/11/25/the-decade-of-xi-jinping/#axzz2DPtdjn00}

Poll Reveals Most and Least Emotional Countries in the World
{http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/13226/20121121/poll-reveals-emotional-countries-world.htm}

Bargain like a Somali
How to negotiate with pirates in the Horn of Africa
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21567077-how-negotiate-pirates-horn-africa-bargain-somali}

Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20501091}

Muddy Waters (finally) publishes report on Olam
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/27/1283253/muddy-waters-publishes-report-on-olam/}

Monday 26th November

The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks - Are banks and governments merely feeding each other's addictions?
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/tacit-bond-arrangement-between-governments-and-banks-endangers-system-a-868971.html}

Why Can't India Feed Its People?
{http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-21/why-cant-india-feed-its-people#p1}

Globalism goes backward
{http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/20/global-economy-backward/?iid=HP_River}

Disaster capitalism doesn’t work
{http://www.salon.com/2012/11/02/historian_jacob_remes_disasters_arent_natural/}

Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics
{http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/110196/hayek-friedman-and-the-illusions-conservative-economics#}

Should Europe Emulate the US?
{http://www.straitstimes.com/microsites/global-perspectives/international-finance/story/should-europe-emulate-the-us-20121126}

Who’s to blame for Dutch disease?
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2012/11/whos-to-blame-for-dutch-disease/}

22 November

With Autonomy, H-P Bought An Old-Fashioned Accounting Scandal. Here's How It Worked.
{http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/11/20/with-autonomy-h-p-bought-an-old-fashioned-accounting-scandal/}

Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says
{http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57505149/modern-wheat-a-perfect-chronic-poison-doctor-says/}

Top Nomura Economist Is Skeptical Of Fiscal Cliff Progress — And There's Good Reason To Take Him Seriously
{http://www.businessinsider.com/lewis-alexander-on-the-debt-ceiling-2012-11}

Other Things to Think About Besides the Fiscal Cliff
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/other-things-to-think-about-besides-the-fiscal-cliff/}

21st November

VIX still sleepy, but volatility in high-yield bonds going bonkers
{http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/11/20/vix-still-sleepy-but-volatility-in-high-yield-bonds-going-bonkers/}

Gold Adjusted for Inflation
Here’s a look at the price of gold adjusted for inflation. As strong as the yellow metal has been over the past 13 years, it’s still below its peak from 1980.

{http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2012/11/gold-adjusted-for-inflation-2.html}

Bubble

Is Catalonia backing away from independence?
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/20/1268003/is-catalonia-backing-away-from-independence/}

Is Catalonia not backing away from independence?
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/catalonia-vote-future-spain}

5 hard truths progressives must face about Obama
{http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/5_hard_truths_progressives_must_face_about_obama/}

ooo, Mars Rover Scientists Say They're Sitting On A Discovery For The 'History Books'

{http://www.businessinsider.com/mars-rover-curiosity-major-discovery-2012-11}

A Record-Smashing Sailboat
{http://www.businessinsider.com/vesta-worlds-fastest-sailboat-2012-11}

Tuesday 20th November

Scotland’s debate lacks seriousness
http://www.johnkay.com/2012/10/31/scotland%E2%80%99s-debate-lacks-seriousness-2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Hamas links truce to end of Gaza border blockade
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57551575/hamas-links-truce-to-end-of-gaza-border-blockade/

How to Live Without Irony
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/
you also have to watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/131-years-of-global-warming-in-26-seconds

Of Parents, Puppies and Robots
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/of-parents-puppies-and-robots/

19th November

Learning to Love Volatility (Taleb)
{http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578120953311383448.html}

France blows up at Economist's 'ticking time-bomb' cover
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/16/economist-front-cover-france}

Iran denies supplying Fajr-5 rockets to Gaza militants: report
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/18/us-palestinians-israel-iran-idUSBRE8AH02H20121118}

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
{http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/}

16 November

ahh! so that is why - What is going on?
{http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/whats-going-on-2/}

Interdealer brokers. At the sharp end
{http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21566651-firms-connect-buyers-and-sellers-wholesale-markets-are-under?fsrc=rss%7Cfec}

How China Became Capitalist
{http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/how-china-became-capitalist}

Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
{http://priceonomics.com/toilets/#japanese}

15 November

 Latest note from Albert Edwards cheerful as ever... "Expect the
New Year to bring nothing but disappointment."
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/11/14/1261803/merry-christmas-and-a-recessionary-new-year/}

Multinationals Find Loopholes Galore in Europe
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/effort-to-close-multinationaltax-loopholes-gaining-steam-a-866989.html}


Thought about making things on the web
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/making_things

Bureaucrats Paid $250,000 Feed Outcry Over College Costs
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-14/bureaucrats-paid-250-000-feed-outcry-over-college-costs.html}

14th November

Is there a problem?
{http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/11/monetary-policy}

As one of the biggest political events of the decade slides into its second week, many correspondents who’ve flown in especially for the event are waking up to the realization that there’s absolutely nothing to report.
{http://chinadailyshow.com/hundreds-of-journalists-now-wandering-beijing-in-search-of-news/}

Joshua M Brown on politics
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/11/13/my-politics/}

Coffee is not dead – but it is losing its wild side
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/coffee-not-dead-wild-ethiopia

Amazon, Google and Starbucks are struggling to defend their tax avoidance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/amazon-google-starbucks-tax-avoidance