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My end of week morning train reads: • Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? This is the best moment in decades for the continent to battle its way back to relevance. Its startups need to act like it....

When they say “they don’t make them like this, anymore” these are the sorts of cars they are talking about: 1953 Buick Skylark Convertible. Its American Iron at its finest, and this is an...

Click for audio   From All About Your Benjamins: Unless you’re a CPA, you probably don’t like to think about taxes, but after listening to this episode with Bill Sweet, you just might. Bill is the...

This is amazing: One of the world’s first drone delivery services is all the way in rural Rwanda, where 27 year-old Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana earns a living by launching and retrieving self-flying...

My morning train reads: • Journalists are not the enemy (The Boston Globe) • An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city (The Guardian) • Need a Quick Inspection of a...

Source: New York Times     Surprise! Politics confuses some peoples’ ability to make objective assessments of economic data: “Americans’ perceptions of the economy’s prospects increasingly depend...

Index Funds Will Be Fine Confronting Cruel Markets The claim that passive investors will suffer more in an equity slump doesn’t hold up. Bloomberg, August 15, 2018       This past week, I came...

A Challenge to the Biggest Idea in Behavioral Finance Two professors make an interesting argument, but the theory of loss aversion isn’t dead yet. Bloomberg, August 9, 2018       A recent paper...

My midweek morning train reads: • The evidence is in: Austerian economists got everything wrong. (TheWeek) • The hunt for the next Nostradamus (FT Alphaville) • We All Have It Now (Of Dollars...

I love this set of advisory rules, as laid out in brilliant dry wit by the wonderful Matt Levine:   10 Laws of Insider Trading 1. Don’t do it. 2. Don’t do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money...

  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver August 12, 2018: Astroturfing       John Oliver’s YouTube channel Official Website: I am John Oliver      

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Lee Cooperman of Omega Advisors has a billion-dollar problem. Over the course of his career, he has accumulated lots of money. Now, he plans on giving it all away during his lifetime. This turns...

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • Why Digital Currency Won’t Save Us (New Economic Thinking) see also Gold Falls to 18-Month Low as Dollar Strengthens (Wall Street Journal) • Three...

Source: Medium   All you need is some cash, a good mechanic — and a time machine —  and you too can beat the broader indices. Or not. Regular readers know of my affinity for beautiful automobiles....

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George Shearing was born on August 13, 1919. The British born jazz pianist emigrated to the US after Wordl War 2, and recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. He was blind...