This is a well argued piece of writing about why your brand is a waste of time, why social media will never sell anything, and the massive transfer of leverage from artists and writers to silicon valley conglomerates and shipping companies. The Guardian There was a while when online publishing represented a frontier. A place where… Continue Reading

This is the ideal piece of web content. 37 seconds. 200k views as of posting.

There remains a tremendous communications gap between western and far eastern enterprise. I ran a small business out of the back of a van for three and a half months this winter. We were featured in mainstream press and generally had a good run. We stopped doing business when our demand was crushed by circumstances beyond… Continue Reading

Ordering a drink at brunch when you are hungover.

I’m enjoying watching Tiger Woods hit his tee shots with the dark blue ball tracker. The 2-iron stinger gets a maximum of ten feet off the ground and runs out 300 yards. Here is a super slow mo from the US-Open. youtube This is a film I’d like to see. From a review at Hammer… Continue Reading

Manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back. Neither are construction jobs. America’s workers need to learn some new skills to stay ahead. The New Artisan Economy at Slate “Overall, Hurst and his co-authors estimate that roughly 40 percent of the increase in nonemployment (those who are unemployed but still looking for jobs, as well as those who… Continue Reading

Imposing losses on bondholders reduces the amount of money taxpayers need to inject into struggling banks… ECB Pivots, Advocates Imposing Losses on Senior Bondholders … possible actionable consequences… WSJ Other than that I don’t have much time to read anything this morning. I got a (small) kick out of reading James Altucher’s Resume though I feel James’ “humility” often… Continue Reading

Chinese GDP Growth Slows to 7.6%. down from 8.1% WSJ Libor Risk #s Alphaville More on Peregrine, the Attempted Suicide, Missing 215$M Nytimes Eurozone Electorate’s Increasing Polarization Sober Look You can’t Have your Cake and Something Something TRB

Copper slips ahead of China GDP Data Reuters … remembering these videos produced and promoted by Goldman Sachs… A View From China 2012 …with the ice cold Helen Zhu China as Post Capital Economy Alphaville: “By now everyone should be familiar with the argument against China. We’re talking gaping spare capacity, a real-estate bubble, an import slowdown, short-term dollar… Continue Reading

A quarter of Wall Street executives see wrongdoing as a key to success. Reuters hardscrabble… Every Scranton City Employee Now Earns Minimum Wage NPR Obama calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000. Changing Subject to “tax fairness” NYTimes melodramatic and obvious… Rant on Why America Isn’t The Greatest – The Newsroom… Continue Reading

Newsletter writers are using the word Cartel in regards to the Libor rate fixing story. In bold. This is interesting to me because the word cartel carries heavy associations. What do we think of when we hear the word “cartel”? Latin American drug terrorists. All of the bad guys from the movie Commando. Men with… Continue Reading

A small futures brokerage is freezing client funds after its owner attempted suicide. Observer …unsurpassed clarity … and a seemingly incapacity for technical error. Glen Gould 7th on list of Greatest Pianists Limelight  (Video – Glen Gould: A Portrait  (1985), The piano was just another instrument of thought, a means for articulating and organizing his thoughts.) A twenty… Continue Reading

A large, red panic-button sits beside this awkward, dramatic opener: “They say it’s always darkest before the dawn but in the financial world we seem to repeatedly go beyond ‘dark’ into pitch blackness when the periodic stumbles that are part and parcel of an ever-growing world come along.”  Grant Williams, a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore, uses most… Continue Reading

Earnings season begins with Alcoa today, JPM on Friday (the 13th…), sentiment is #dark Marketwatch More on China’s 800B short USD position Alphaville Libor focus swings to government, Bank of England Deputy Chairman Tucker to face parliament Bloomberg Josh Brown is bullish on stocks over the second half; sees AAPL kicking ass Reformed Broker What is… Continue Reading

Is this man telling the truth? Frank Callaghan’s recent announcement and commentary. @tommyhump Canadians: it’s time to get rid of Harper The Economist US Unemployment Remains at 8.2% Bureau of Labor Statistics Report Summary of Libor Mess BBC Chess Players who did well in Business Business Insider