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














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