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Cool Comparison of Harry Potter and Star Wars [Infographic]

The first reactions to 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' are here, and people are thrilled ... Even Wired liked it.

Ah, the Hero's Quest ... a formula that has worked for centuries.

Check out this document showing the differences between the plots of Harry Potter and Star Wars.

 

 

J.K. Rowling has said, "I haven't the faintest idea where my ideas come from."  Well, Wikipedia lists over two dozen influences and analogues (and is interesting, if you like that sort of thing.)

Or, you could just glance at the following infographic.  It highlights the similarities between Harry Potter and Star Wars pretty clearly.

 

 

Sometimes it is better not to analyze the trick and just enjoy the magic.

Other times, just let Saturday Night Live do a parody of it.

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Google is good for a lot of things.  Watching the auto-complete choices is often fun.  According to this, PDF might be the fourth most popular religion.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How Machines Learn (And You Win). (HBR)
• How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor. (Bloomberg)
• Forget Humans vs. Machines: It’s a Humans + Machines Future. (Singularity)
• The 5 Biggest Rip-Offs Consumers Face Today.  (Fortune)
• Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s. (The Atlantic)

 

Trading Links:

• Goldman Sachs Bought a $21 Million Stake in HFT Network Company. (Bloomberg)
• U.S. System Designed to Prevent Financial Crisis ‘Likely to Fail,’ Say Experts. (MarketWatch)
• Wall Street is Under Attack from Hackers. (Business Insider)
• Short Interest: Dispelling Another Market Myth. (See It Market)
• Stop Listening to These Clowns: Economists’ Bad Ideas Have Been Damaging Our Economy for Years. (Salon)

Nearly 20% of 25- to 34-Year-Old Men Live With Their Parents

Deutsche Bank research found that nearly 20% of men between the ages of 25 and 34 live at home.

As a point of comparison, about 12% of women this age are living at home. 

  

  Deutsche Bank via Business Insider.

Ultimately, you can see this dynamic one of two ways: either the number of young people living at home is a bullish force for the housing market going forward, or this is indicative of a lost generation that has suffered the ill-effects of a deep recession, massive student loan debts, and a general proclivity for incompetence.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. But, it is so easy for  my generation to hate on Millennials.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Just like Ben Carson theorized ...

 

via Bizarro.com.

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Scale Things That Don't Scale. (Buffer)
• Fifty years of Moore’s Law. (Timeline)
• Singularity or Civil War? The Future of Artificial Intelligence. (Breitbart)
• How to Never Get Angry: 3 New Secrets From Neuroscience. (Time)
• The Dark Side of Empathy. How caring for one person can foster baseless aggression towards another (The Atlantic)

 

Trading Links:

• The 40 Most Exciting Innovations of the Year - Tech Insider. (TechInsider)
• Skype Co-Founders Prep Self-Driving Robot Package Delivery. (USAToday)
• Google Says It Could Make Drone Deliveries Happen by 2017. (MarketWatch)
• The Psychology of Risk and Reward. (Farnam Street)
• The Stock Market is a 'Dangerous Casino' That's Disconnected from the Real Economy. (Business Insider)

Star Wars: The Fan’s Guide to Investing

We’re officially two weeks away from the premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.

In keeping with the spirit, here is an infographic for Star War fans to navigate the galaxy of investments.  Click it to see a bigger version.

 

An infographic by the team at RCM Alternatives.

May the Force be with you.

 

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving weekend.  Times may change, but human nature doesn't.  There is a lot to be thankful for anyway!

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• CEOs On Their 'Best Mistakes'. (Business Insider)
• The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners. (HBR)
• How AI is Transforming Business [Infographic]. (Deloitte)
• How Salad Can Make Us Fat. (NYTimes)
• Research: Life Is Different For People Who Think In Metaphors. (Psych)

 

Trading Links:

• Jack Bogle: Greatly Diminished Stock Returns Ahead. (CBS)
• U.S. Dethroned as World's Billionaire Capital. (CNBC)
• IMF Seen Approving Yuan As "Reserve Currency". (ZeroHedge)
• The Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges. (Bloomberg)
• These Numbers Explain Why Amazon Wants to Give So Much Free Stuff to Prime Members. (BI)

Will the Rally Continue? The S&P 500 Index Is Approaching All-Time Highs

The S&P 500 Index is coming into resistance (which is looming large) near all-time highs.

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via StockCharts.com.

On the other hand, the Index is nicely above support, and back above its 200-day moving average.

 

Meanwhile, a growing number of issues are back above their 200-day moving averages. Click here to see a live chart of that.

This is a seasonally good time of year for a breakout move like that to happen.

Worth watching.

Have You Seen the New Surcharge Being Added to Restaurant Bills in San Francisco?

Last week, I spent some time in San Francisco for meetings.

At lunch, I saw something new.  They're adding a 5% surcharge to offset "the cost of doing business in San Francisco."

 

 

They didn't simply raise the prices. The prices are the prices ... Then they add a surcharge.

Pretty Bold!

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Don't ask how I know, but, never laugh at your wife's choices.  Remember, you are one of them.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 6 Ways Work Will Change In 2016. (FastCompany)
• What Peter Drucker Had to Say About Automation. (HBR)
• Japan is Building a “Robot Taxi” Service, With Thousands Planned for the 2020 Olympics. (QZ)
• Is Classical Music Irrelevant? Can It Survive The Death Of Its Listeners? (TM)
• Pretty Scary - How Close Did We Come to a US-Soviet War During the Cold War? (BI)

 

Trading Links:

• Hedge-Fund Priest: Thou Shalt Make Money. (Wall Street Journal)
• When Botox Meets Viagra: Allergen & Pfizer in Merger Talks. (LATimes)
• Even If Only for a Moment, Someone Leapfrogged Gates as World's Richest. (ValueWalk)
• Money Managers Go on Offense Against Speed Traders. (Bloomberg)
• The Trust Machine: The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Transform How the Economy Works. (Economist)

The Fed: How To Make $3 Trillion Disappear

After the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve created $3 trillion dollars. The goal was to try and keep the economy from collapsing. Now, as the economy recovers, the Fed is trying to figure out the best way to make that money vanish.

The Fed can usually just change the numbers in their system ... and, "Poof," the money is gone.

This time, they’ll need a new trick.

 

 via ValueWalk.

Here is how the Fed plans to make trillions of dollars disappear.