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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Just had a week of planning sessions.  Does this sound familiar ... ?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Entrepreneur’s Checklist. (John Carlton)
• The Booming Business Behind Burning Man. (CNBC)
• When Does a $5 Toll Cost $30? When You're Driving a Rental Car. (Businessweek)
• Who is Putting Up 'Interceptor' Cell Towers? The Mystery Deepens. (VentureBeat)
• Math Behind McDonald's Monopoly Game Revealed. (BusinessInsider)          

 

Trading Links:

• Rich People Are Leveraging-Up and Betting With Borrowed Money. (Wall Street Journal)
• Stock Gap: American stock holdings at 18-year low. (Preview)   
• Apple is no longer Apple – but Tesla is. Revolutionizing an Industry (BGR)
• Does Testosterone Make People Greedy? (The Atlantic)
• Tony Robbins Just Wrote a Book on Money.  Get it here for free. (TR)

Facebook Is Now Bigger Than IBM

I just saw something that made me look twice ... Facebook is now bigger than IBM.

This represents a a major changing of the technology guard for corporate America.

 

 

 

 

via Quartz

 

Facebook’s market value has surpassed a number of the icons of American industry, including Verizon, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Bank of America and Citigroup.

 

Surprising?

Time-Lapse Maps That Show How Fast and Much the World Has Changed

Human have a huge impact on the landscape. 

For example, take a look at Dubai in Google's Earth Engine.  It is easy to see the incredible coastal expansion.

 

 

 

We are literally terra-forming the planet.

The Earth Engine brings together trillions of scientific measurements dating back over 40 years (based on Landsat satellite imagery).

You can explore some of these time-lapse maps here.

Seasons of the Economic Cycle

Just re-looked at this chart depicting the four seasons of our basic economic cycle. 

 

Pretty clear where we are. 

 

 

LPL Mid-Year Outlook via Josh Brown.

 

I like maps (like this one) because they help you anticipate, rather than simply react to what happens. 

7 Crazy Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually True

A recent Quora post prompted the question, "What are some of the most mind-blowing facts that sound like 'BS', but are actually true?"

This video  presents seven of those crazy-sounding facts.

 

via BI Video on YouTube

Interesting.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

What do you call someone who constantly asks for your advice, but doesn't take it?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models. (Harvard Business Review)
• The 12 Most Popular Free Online Courses for Professionals. (BusinessInsider)
• Would You Hire These Famous People Based On Their Former Job Applications? (FC)
• And The Biggest Threat To The Internet Is ... (Forbes)
• Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here. A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world (Spectrum)

 

Trading Links:

• P&G's Plan to Ditch Half of Its Brands. (Businessweek)
• $1 Million City: S.F. median home price hits 7 figures for 1st time. (SFGate)
• Renters Trading Size for Frills Fuel U.S. Apartment Boom. (Bloomberg)
• A World Without Water - Thinking About the Threat of Scarcity to Companies. (FT)
• The Invisible Economy. Techniques for measuring economic performance are obsolete. (Atlantic)

Short Term Climax Bottom - But What Will Move Markets the Rest of the Year?

The S&P 500 Index finally bounced.

Technicians sighed in relief as the S&P 500 had an oversold bounce near its April low support level.  On a side note, Wednesday's price plunge marked a 62% retracement of the February-September rally.

The fact that the S&P 500 closed so far off its Wednesday low (in very heavy trading) also has the look of a potential "climax" bottom.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that the two day bounce on Thursday and Friday came on declining volume. In addition, the S&P 500 remains below its August low and 200-day moving average.

From a different perspective, there are many risks blame-worthy for the recent market volatility.

Growth is slowing, prices are deflating, geopolitical turmoil is elevated, and Ebola is spreading.

Deutsche Bank highlighted 10 forces that could move markets between now and the end of the year.

 

 

We live in interesting times.

Carrot: A Pitch-Perfect Satire of the Tech Industry

This comedy short parodies the type of announcements made by seemingly every start-up in America.

 

It is not hawking a watch or a pair of glasses .... Rather, it is pitching the edible root:

"It's not just a vegetable. It's what a vegetable should be."

 

Well done and funny.  Worth a quick view.

 

 

 

via Introducing Carrot.

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

The virus on your computer is NOT Ebola.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• If Brainstorming Doesn't Work … Try This Technique Instead. (FastCompany)
• 5 Radical Business Quotes from Tesla Motors, Inc.'s CEO, Elon Musk. (M-Fool)
• Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book. (Wall Street Journal)
• 10 Malware Removal Apps Tested: Malwarebytes Comes out on Top. (Lifehacker)
• Which Country Does The Most Good For The World? (TED Talk Video)

 

Trading Links:

• Netflix Surpasses HBO in Subscriber Revenue. (Mashable)
• Harry Dent Predicts Central Banker Economies Will Collapse, Including Ours. (M-Oracle)
• New ETF Tracks the Billionaire Dream Team. (Bloomberg)
• USPS: 3D Printing Could Increase Shipping Revenue by Hundreds of Millions. (GigaOM)
• Math Nerds Are Taking Over Wall Street. (Money)

The Difference Between Rich and MegaRich

You've probably heard that the rich get richer.

Recently, there was much attention paid to the 1%.  Perhaps, the 1% of the 1% is even more interesting.

Here is a chart that shows how much the disparity between the rich and the really rich has widened over the past few decades.

 

Source: Mother Jones via Barry Ritholtz.

 

The average real income of the top 1 percent has increased more than 175 percent as the bottom 90 percent merely treads water.

Meanwhile, during the same period, the top earners -- the 1 percent of the 1 percent – have gained about 500 percent.