Archive for October, 2015
Homes as ATMs: It’s Starting Again
October 5th, 2015Via: CNBC: As home values rise, homeowners are gaining more equity on paper — and they’re taking it out in paper. Cash-out refinances jumped 68 percent in the second quarter from a year ago, according to Black Knight Financial Services. This is the highest volume of this type of refinance in five years.
Trans-Pacific Partnership
October 5th, 2015Via: Reuters: Pacific trade ministers have reached a deal on the most sweeping trade liberalization pact in a generation that will cut trade barriers and set common standards for 12 countries, an official familiar with the talks said on Monday. Leaders from a dozen Pacific Rim nations are poised to announce the pact later on […]
Over Half of E.U. Countries Are Opting Out of GMOs
October 4th, 2015Via: Time: Sixteen countries have alerted the European Union that they want to opt out of E.U.-approved GM crops. Members of the economic bloc have until Oct. 3 to let the E.U. know if they were requesting to opt out of growing GMO produce from major companies like Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta and Pioneer, and according […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Bombs Hospital, At Least 19 Dead
October 3rd, 2015Via: Washington Post: An airstrike apparently carried out by U.S. forces heavily damaged a charitable hospital in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 19 people — three of them reportedly children — in an incident that a senior U.N. official equated to a war crime. The airstrike occurred before dawn when a Doctors Without […]
The Fed’s Grotesque “Explanation” Why 94.6 Million Are Out Of The Labor Force
October 3rd, 2015Via: ZeroHedge: And this is where the wheels fall off the Atlanta Fed narative. Because the regional Fed’s very next sentence shows why the world is doomed when you task economists to centrally-plan it: The decrease in labor force participation among prime-age individuals has been driven mostly by the share who say they currently don’t […]
Is Anything Happening in New Zealand Besides Sportsball, Fashion, Celebrities and Recipes?
October 3rd, 2015nzherald.co.nz, just now: Endless lobotomizing schlock.
Daimler Tests Self-Driving Truck on German Highway
October 2nd, 2015Via: AFP: German automaker Daimler said it trialled a self-driving truck under real traffic conditions for the first time Friday, on a motorway in southern Germany. The truck has smart systems including radars, cameras and active speed regulators and works without a human driver — although one has to be in the driver’s seat and […]
Urban Barns
October 2nd, 2015I wonder what that power bill is each month? Via: The National: Related: Meanwhile in Japan
IBM Overcomes One of the Three Barriers to Viable Carbon Nanotube Transistors
October 2nd, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: For decades the semiconductor industry has been packing more and more silicon transistors onto each computer chip to keep steadily improving performance, but that process will soon reach its physical limits. Now researchers at IBM say a “major engineering breakthrough” gives reason to be optimistic that a promising alternative to silicon […]
“The U.S. Led ISIS Coalition”
October 2nd, 2015Your what hurts? Via: CNN:
