Vultures
Nothing to see here, just move along: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol’s books last month, it found that the firm was in fact [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 14:42:10
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The Amazon Kindle Review By John Blossom: Is The Future Of Book Publishing Here?
Still in doubt about whether to get an Amazon Kindle? Not fully convinced that these new ebook reader devices have the form factor and usability traits you are expecting? John Blossom has taken the time to go out and borrow an Amazon Kindle from his close-by public library, and has played with it for over two weeks before writing this review. [ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 08:27:16
More speculation about those oil speculators
I normally leave it to folks like Dean Baker to beat up on the press ... their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol's books last month ... in oil and a number of other commodity markets. The CFTC separates the holders of those contracts [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 04:02:06
Building Their Own Left by digby Fred Clarkson (of Talk To Action, among many other blogs and publications) is an expert on religion and politics and has written a new book Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America. He recently gave an interesting interview [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 22:02:27
So how’s policy coordination in the G-20 going?
One of the lesser tragedies of this fall’s global recession is that the book I was going to write on the future of global governance is going to ... the round but also the WTO system”…. The outcome runs counter to promises made by leaders of the Group ... trading partners with measures to benefit local producers. Brazil and Argentina have argued [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 21:32:59
Book Review: Chinese Cities’ Suburban Futures: The Chinese Dream
The Chinese Dream Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby, and Saskia Vendel (project management) 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2008 . 704pp+79pp magazine. ISBN 97864506529 The Chinese Dream surveys scenarios of possible Chinese urban development over the dozen years to 2020 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 16:10:18
Hans Sennholz: In Living Color on the Monetary Writings of Carl Menger
As readers of the blog know, my undergraduate teacher and mentor was Dr. Hans Sennholz ... ). Sennholz was a critic of the world fiat currency system. And in other books, such as Debts ... successful), I was dating my future wife and life partner, and I found my "calling" with economic argument [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 14:24:02
Breaking on the Web: July 11, P.M. Edition
Updated 4:55 pm EDT EPA Decides Human Life Worth Less Today - Seth Borenstein, AP Retired Colonel Criticizes Iraq Strategies in Book - Yochi J ... Block Stricter Regulation of Oil-Futures Trading - Ian Talley, The Wall Street Journal ($) Capital [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 20:35:07
Dark Harvest ~Norman Partridge
Dark Harvest ~Norman Partridge –published 2006 –169 pages, Tor Books –Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award –4 ... and future of an entire town and its inhabitants, for it is the night of an annual town ritual ... was an unknown commodity to me. I must admit that I had seen this novel before and was attracted [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 12:58:02
The end of (capitalist) history? By William Bowles
By William Bowles featured writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info Sept 17, 2008 After the Soviet Union collapsed, Francis Fukuyama published his now utterly discredited book, ‘The End of History’, which told of a glorious future, a capitalist paradise, where we would all be rich, eventually, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 23:33:17
Trading the Exchanges: Buying CME Group
CME Group (CME) has lost more than half of its market value over the past three months and the stock price has cratered by nearly three-quarters ... stakes in the Company's new CDS platform while it awaits SEC approval to begin trading. Meanwhile ... at less than two-thirds of book value (0.66) despite its position as the world's largest futures [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 10:47:38
Whittling down the reading pile…
Whittling down the reading pile… January 12th, 2009 My stack of books keeps growing. Like my Netflix queue, but with more taunt. ( ... in some dystopian future where people are reliant on, or slave to, some sort of “web” of information, and Feed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:42:57
Highlights of New Titles January 5 - 11
Each week CSU Library adds hundreds of new resources to our catalogue, including books, DVDs, CDs, and electronic resources ... : Stability Ball Games by John Byl. Check AvailabilityTV Futures: Digital Television Policy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 03:21:00
Space Lords ~Cordwainer Smith
Space Lords ~Cordwainer Smith –first edition 1965, this edition 1968 –206 pages, Pyramid Books –4.75/5 stars “This is science fiction, yes ... within a fictional world 14,000 years in our future. The bulk of Smith’s approximately twenty short stories and two novels are set in this same created world. That future finds humanity in a type [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:41:57
Rob's auguries for 2009
I have written predictions before and usually remove them if and when they don't come true. Such will be the case with this one ... downward. Commodity trading is not for the faint of heart. Rare book collecting will experience a surge ... . Nevertheless, I feel led to offer some of my own thoughts for the future [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 23:51:00
Population Bombs
Try as he might, Ross "every sperm is sacred" Douthat cannot locate a "key insight" about population growth in Ehrlich's book ... to fall in price unto the end of time, which is why trading in commodity futures is performed ... it is no less than John Holdren, Barack Obama's new science advisor, who claimed to have found [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 16:27:00
Book Review: How to Buy Your First Home (2nd Edition)
Disclosure: This is not a paid review ... for Your Home Finances The Buying Process The Future Each section includes several chapters written in easy ... d be remiss in not pointing out one flaw in the book. Granted, I am a real estate broker and may [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 02:16:37
The Books of the States: New York (31 Electoral Votes)
As the resident former New Yorker on the Books Editorial team ( ... (that's the camera shy Salinger's Catcher in the Rye author photo, later removed from future printings, gracing [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 22:29:53
THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA
How would Barack Obama govern if he were elected? The answer, says author David Freddoso, in his new book, "The Case Against Barack Obama," ... economic turmoil -- it has lost its two leading banks and thousands of jobs in the futures and commodities markets.Not only does it have the highest retail sales tax in the country, at 10.25 percent [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 16:35:56
The Shortest Investment Book Ever by James O’Donnell
... in commodities or buying options and futures, but for 99% of individuals that stuff won’t matter [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 11:30:02
Merger between Yahoo & AOL in the works…
Reuters reports that a person familiar with the talks told them that Yahoo and AOL are looking at each other’s books to figure out how much money ... be an option. Officially this means nothing. Unofficially it means that Yahoo is still looking ... publicly because the discussions are confidential.” It is hard to predict if their futures [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 12:36:36
How do you know if you need a new vision?
Photo by apes_abroad Burt Nanus in his book “Visionary Leadership” provides the following warning signs of a lack of vision: ... challenge or say they’re not having fun anymore? Are they pessimistic about the future or cynical about the present? Is the organization losing market legitimacy, market position, or its reputation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:20:03
What’s Investing All About?
Forex trading strategy is also quite different from futures market investing and desired results - other than making money of course - are different ... of stock market investing. Through entertaining anecdotes and practical pearls of wisdom, the book ... . Online stock trading is without a doubt, one of most convenient ways to get into the stock [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 06:02:28
10 Hail Mary’s and a Requirement to Pay Attention to the ‘Future of the Conservatism’ Debates My Friends Are Having on Twitter?
So I seem to have caught a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism as of late. I haven’t finished a book in a month. The only blog posting I’ve done since the holidays has been on celebrity fashion, my holiday travels and pants. I haven’t picked up a newspaper in I don’t know how long. I skim the blog posts in my RSS feed that look too serious [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:43:31
Getting Ready to Close the Books
Trading The last day of trading beckons with markets on target for the worst year since 1931, a year when investors elected to give their money to the government in exchange for nothing, lest they find a way to lose it themselves. Futures are a bit higher, for whatever that means [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:12:07
“Lord of the Rings: Conquest” Machinima Videos are Something to See
As someone who was introduced to the Lord of the Rings trilogy at an early age, and has managed to reread the books pretty much every year since middle school, I consider myself ... of drama there and at least to me it calls to mind the possible futures of the mirror of Galadrial [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 23:59:58
Saturday Ramble: a real-time slump is not like the history books
One of the fascinations of the study of history is living through a genuine historical epoch. We are there now ... the almost impenetrable armour covering our medium-term futures, what might be the precise problem [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 16:25:43
Book Review and Giveaway: Rich Like Them
In Rich Like Them: My Door to Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America’s Richest Neighborhoods, ... a fixed mindset. Failing is the best way to insure future success. From a travel agent, people [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 06:01:25
Monday's Links
Sears, Oil, Futures, Op-Ed - Not this bad- Oil ETF's- Over $60- A classicDisclosure ("none" means no position):Visit the ValuePlays Bookstore for Great Investing Books Posted by Todd Sullivan at 1:56 AM [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 06:56:00
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