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Postmodern Jukebox's Cool Cover of "Creep" [Music Video]

Creativity isn't limited to creation.  

Sometimes how you approach something changes it. 

For example, in music, there are some pretty famous covers that "beat" (or revitalize) the original. 

• Aretha Franklin's Respect (An Otis Redding song) is so familiar that it seems like it's the original.
• Disturbed's The Sound of Silence (A Simon&Garfunkel song) has a whopping 236 million views on YouTube.
• Johnny Cash's version of Hurt (A Nine Inch Nails song) has over 50 million views on YouTube.

If you want to stretch it ... how about a death metal version of Mary Poppins?

Some bands exist primarily to do covers.  Few do it like Postmodern Jukebox, which an avid following – and an abundance of talent.    

Here is one of their hits, a torch song inspired version of "Creep" by Radiohead.  Worth a listen.

 

As I was putting this together, I came across a different version of Creep played on a Gayageum (a traditional Korean instrument).  

Different ... but interesting.

There are many ways to approach almost everything.

 

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading - May 21, 2017

The "He Said – She Said" loop is funny ... But it is still giving me a headache.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Here are the Ridiculous Things Celebrities Demand Backstage. (BusinessInsider)
• Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity. (Medium)
• The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity Methods. (Todoist)
• Hundreds of Privacy-invading Apps are Using Ultrasonic Sounds to Track You. (ZDNet)
• Why Would Aliens Even Bother with Earth? (LitHub)

  

Trading Links:

• Elon Musk Says Robots Will Help Tesla Catch up to Apple in Value. (Fortune)
• Retailers Look past Apps to the next Frontier of Digital Shopping: Chatbots. (WashPost)
• Vending Machine-like Skyscraper Concept Plans to 3D Print Custom Homes. (Mashable)
• Indonesian Islamist Leader Says Ethnic Chinese Wealth is next Target. (Reuters)
• Financial Technology is Proving Less of a Battleground Than Feared. (Economist)

 

Adam Sandler Plays a New Version of His ‘The Chanukah Song’ [Video]

It is Holiday Season again ... Wow, how time flies.

To my Jewish friends, Happy Chanukah.

And, as a 'gift' to all of you, here is a new version of "The Chanukah Song," performed by comedian Adam Sandler.  It became an instant classic, in 1994, when Sandler performed it on Saturday Night Live.

   

 

via YouTube.

 

Here is the Wikipedia post about the Chanukah Song.

Here are links to the Original Video,  Version 2, and, Version 3.  

Hope you enjoy them ... and best wishes for a happy holiday season.

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Saw this and laughed.  The too true story of life as an entrepreneur.

via Gaping Void.

Here are some posts I saved this week.

 

Lighter Links:

• 17 Handy Tools for Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Marketers. (MarketingProfs)
• Brexit Will Not Affect 'Game of Thrones' Production. (Mashable)
• Frequent-flyer Programs are Too Complicated to Understand, the US Government Has Concluded. (Quartz)
• Why Bose’s New Wireless Headphones should Always Be in Your Hand Luggage. (TNW)
• Hillary: the New Mother Teresa? (DailyReckoning)

 

Trading Links:

 

• Goldman Sachs’ Favorite Books List – General Books on Investing. (ValueWalk)
• Warren Would Give a Middle Finger to Wall Street as Clinton's Vice-president. (TheGuardian)
• Indonesia Considers Onshore Financial Center after Tax Amnesty. (Reuters)
• The Short- and Long-Term Economic and Market Impact of a Brexit. (InstitutionalInvestor)
• Getting Serious About Trumponomics. (Apple)

I don't think this is what Beyoncé had in mind ...

I recently went to a Beyoncé concert.  Not as good as a Cowboys game, but impressive talent nonetheless.

Meanwhile, this guy has some talent and is covering her material ... just not enough of his body.  All The Single Ladies, will never be the same.  Worth a watch for the laugh.

 

via YouTube.

 

This was fun too.

 

 

via YouTube.

And here is a link to Beyoncé doing that same song a little differently.

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

With Mother's Day a week ago, I remembered that early childhood was hard for some ...

 

 

On the other hand, it only takes a moment ...

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How Apple Won the iPad Trademark. (BizInsider)
• The Power of Checklists. (Art of Manliness)
• The Most Thought Provoking Articles of the Year. (BrainPickings)
• The Secret Meanings Behind 40 Brand Logos. (MarketingLand)
• The Science of Mis-Heard Lyrics. (New Yorker)

 

Trading Links:

• What Did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at Series A? (Medium)
• How to De-Risk in a Bull Market. (Institutional Investor)
• In at the Highs, Out at the Lows. (Attain-RCM Managed Futures)
• Spain Joins Negative Yield Club. (MoneyBeat)
• These Will Be the World's 20 Largest Economies in 2030. (Bloomberg)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

According to the President, the new three branches of government are ... me, myself, and I.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Power of Checklists. (Art of Manliness)
• The Most Thought Provoking Articles of the Year. (Brain Pickings)
• The Secret Meanings Behind 40 Brand Logos. (Marketing Land)
• The Science of Misheard Lyrics. (New Yorker)
• Why We Love Back Rubs, Chili Peppers, and the Sex from “50 Shades”. (Salon)

 

Trading Links:

• Saudi Arabia 'Engineered' Oil Crisis: Says Dallas Fed Chief. (Money)
• A Few Things To Know About Technical Analysis. (Stock Charts)
• Meet The Man Who Wants To Build The ESPN Of Finance. (HuffPost)
• A Netflix for Private Flights: A Members-Only Airline. (Fast Company)
• AT&T Dumped by Dow. Time to Buy? History suggests it's worth a look. (Markets)

What’s Going On - Playing For Change [Music Video]

Here is a different take on Marvin Gaye’s classic “What’s Going On”.

It is a "Song Around The World" recording by Playing For Change.

It starts with an acoustic guitar in Africa, adds a drummer in Los Angeles. Next comes the electric guitar and bass on the streets of Chicago and strings in Serbia.  You get the picture ...

Now listen to the music.

 

 

 

Years in the making, minutes to watch. Very cool.

This Song Around The World is featured on PFC3. The album features 185 musicians from 31 countries.

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A Jazz Quartet Explains High-Frequency Trading

There was an opinion piece on MarketWatch about how information flow influences how often you should trade.

As part of it, there was a video that explained how algorithms effect trading (using a jazz quartet).

 

via Marketwatch.

The Meaning of Money: Listen to how computer algorithms changed the music of the market.

 

Faster trading brings up important economic questions: What are the costs and benefits to investors for speeding up trading? Is there an “optimal” trading frequency at which the financial market should operate? And does a faster market affect one group of investors more than another?

 

Here are a few of the points made:

• A higher-frequency market is more responsive to new information.

• The optimal trading frequency depends on how the benefit and cost balance each other.

• The more frequently the market allows investors to transact, the stronger their incentive to split orders over time to avoid price impact.

From my perspective, faster trading is inevitable.  However, as more traders gain access to it, speed for the sake of speed will lose its appeal.  What will continue to matter is the speed at which a trader can identify an edge and capture its profit opportunity.

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Weekend

In my opinion, facts are not beliefs or opinions.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 10 Famous Geniuses With Truly Weird Secret Habits. (Listverse)
• The Reflex of Character. (Michael Hyatt)
• 10 Jobs That No Longer Exist. (BoredPanda)
• 13 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do On Spotify. (JeoBox)
• 5 Social Media Metrics that your Business Should Track. (TheNextWeb)

 

Trading Links:

• Hedge Funds Have Worst Start Since 2008. (BusinessInsider)
• Will Last Year's Winners Be This Year's Losers? (BlackRock)
• On A 'Rigged' Wall Street, Milliseconds Make All The Difference. (NPR)
• CME Trading Outage Showed That Man Can Still Match The Machine. (Reuters)
• Biggest Credit Bubble in History Flashes Warning – ‘Seek Cover’. (NakedCapitalism)