Archive for December, 2014
“Could the U.S. Bail Out Its Own Oil Sector?”
December 10th, 2014Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. “…there’s a part of me, a gut feeling, that thinks that the shale apocalypse will just continue on somehow.” —Oil Down 6.88% On OPEC Strategy to Destroy U.S. Shale Business My long side trigger finger will start to itch if it […]
British Tycoon Impaled on Spikes Following 60ft Fall from Luxury London Penthouse
December 10th, 2014Update: Scot Young Via: Telegraph: A financier at the heart of one of Britain’s biggest divorce battles has died after falling from his £3 million home and impaling himself on iron railings. Scot Young, 52, suffered horrific injuries after plummeting four storeys from a window of his luxury central London penthouse. His death comes almost […]
Retail Neuroscience
December 10th, 2014Via: CBS: Retailers are trying to get into customers’ brains and they now have the technology to do it. It’s called consumer neuroscience and companies are getting valuable shopper intel that can shape the shopping experience.
Facebook AI Assistant for Imbeciles
December 10th, 2014Via: Wired: Let’s say you’re out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone, you take a selfie in the middle of all this drunken revelry, then you take 30 or 40 more, and, without hesitation, you start uploading them to Facebook. It’s a common thing to do. But […]
A Pacific Isle, Radioactive and Forgotten
December 9th, 2014Via: New York Times: THERE is no consistent air service to the coral atoll of Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, where the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958. On my first trip to the capital, Majuro, in 2010, to study the danger posed there by the rising ocean, I managed to […]
Senate Report: CIA Misled Public on Torture
December 9th, 2014Update: Rectal Hydration Via: NBC: Along with the waterboarding, Mohammed was subjected to days of standing sleep deprivation, slapping and “stress positions,” the report says. And it says that several times he underwent an emergency medical procedure known as “rectal rehydration,” or proctolysis, which standard medical references describe as a way to quickly replace fluids […]
Greek Stocks Crash
December 9th, 2014Via: CNBC: Greece’s stock market plunged 13 percent on Tuesday and bond yields spiked after the country’s government surprised investors by announcing a snap presidential vote. The election was originally scheduled for the new year, but will now take place next week. The news, announced late Monday, caused the Athens Stock Exchange to fall 13 […]
Stocks: Shanghai Down 5%, Greece Down 6%
December 9th, 2014Via: CNBC: Greek stocks slid 6 percent, with continued political jitters in the country adding to the declines. … China was the main focus for investors as the country’s Shanghai Composite (Shanghai Stock Exchange: .SSEC) benchmark tumbled in the final hour of trade. It finished the session down 5.3 percent after rallying to a three-and-half-year […]
Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company
December 9th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: Bloomberg: At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest. Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more […]
China’s Sub Launched Nuclear Missile Capability
December 9th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: China is preparing to arm its stealthiest submarines with nuclear missiles that could reach the U.S., cloaking its arsenal with the invisibility needed to retaliate in the event of an enemy strike. Fifty years after China carried out its first nuclear test, patrols by the almost impossible-to-detect JIN class submarines armed with nuclear […]
