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Amazon vs. Walmart [Infographic]

Amazon celebrated its 20th-anniversary last week.

With 244 million active users, Amazon is by far the largest online retailer in the world.

But how does it stack up against brick-and-mortar retail giants?  This infographic compares the e-commerce giant to the world’s largest retailer: Walmart.

 

via WebpageFX.

Kind of surprising.

 

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So, are you conflicted about Trump running for President?  

 

 

Good for entertainment ... Just not sure how good it will be for the country?

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Use the Gratitude Advantage at Work. (Michael Hyatt)
• Microsoft Study Shows That Tech Is Shortening Your Attention Span. (Engadget)
• What 5 Days of Junk Food Does to You. (Time)
• The U.S. Army is Testing a Real-Life Ray Gun. (The Week)
• Science Fiction writer, Warren Ellis, Answers Your Questions about the Future. (WN) 

 

Trading Links:

• An Offline N.Y.S.E. Made Barely a Ripple in a Day’s Trading. (NYTimes)
• Are CTAs Good for a Diversified Hedge Fund Portfolio? (FINalternatives)
• The Rise of the Trader-Bots. (The New Yorker)
• Unravelling Capitalism's Hidden Networks Of Power. (New Scientist)
• The Economics of Polo, the Sport of Kings. (Forbes) 

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In the spirit of 'Independence' ... here is a photo of the British Royal Family.  It could be captioned: "Did Phillip Fart?"

The expressions are priceless!  Notice Harry, and of course, the Queen.

 

 

What do you think?

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

 

Lighter Links:

• What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter Than We Are? (TED)
• Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling. (Aerogramme Studio)
• Watching Porn With Porn Stars Is Hilariously Awkward. (HuffPost)
• U.S. Suspects Hackers in China Breached 4 Million People’s Records. (WSJ)
• IBM is buying thousands of Macs for its employees. It wants to deploy around 50,000 MacBooks by the end of the year.  (9to5mac)

 

Trading Links:

• Most Millionaires Think They Are Middle Class. (CNBC)
• Uber is Now Worth MORE than Federal Express. (Lindzon)
• Feds’ Crystal Ball Shows Oil Comeback. (Investing Daily)
• Who Is Saudi Arabia Really Targeting In Its Price War? (OilPrice)
• How The Fed "Engineered A Massive Squeeze In The Markets" with the Help of 683x Leverage. (ZH)

These are the 10 biggest employers in the world

These are the 10 biggest employers in the world.

The list was published last week on the World Economic Forum's Agenda blog. 

 

 via Business Insider.

While the top two largest employers are not private companies, Wal-Mart and McDonald's are three and four.

Did this list surprise you?

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To put a bad decision in context.  Take a look at this.

 

The actual date was April 12, 1976, but other than that, you get the point. 

One of the links below is to a story about an investor who lost $15 Billion in an hour.

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 20 Quotes to Inspire Successful Innovation. (Mindjet)
• John F. Nash Jr., Math Genius Defined by a ‘Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86. (NYTimes)
• Why Mathematician John Nash Was a Genius. (Mashable)
• Service Transforms Your Tweets Into Something Worth a Look. Here's mine. (RM)
• Tag Heuer to Rolex: How Luxury Watch Brands Are Responding to the Apple Watch. (Fortune)

 

Trading Links:

• The IPO Class of 2015. (Forbes)
• China’s IPO Market Leaves U.S. in the Dust. (Wall Street Journal)
• China's Richest Man Recently Lost $15 Billion In One Hour. (Money)
• How a London Man May Have Helped Trigger the 'Flash Crash'. (BigStory)
• An Objective Look at High-Frequency Trading, Dark Pools and The Flash Crash. (ValueWalk)

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How The Future Is Really Built. (Innovation Excellence)
• Debate: Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb? (NPR)
• Miracle Grow for Your Brain. (Farnam Street)
• The 70 Coolest New Buildings in the World. (Insider)
• How Lebron James' Trainer Gets Him From One Herculean Effort To Next. (CBS Sports)

 

Trading Links:

• The Information Age Is Over. Welcome to the Infrastructure Age. (Gizmodo)
• Presenting De-Dollarization In One Simple Map. (ZeroHedge)
• Three Reasons Apple Should Acquire IBM. (Forbes)
• How Tesla Will Change The World. (Wait But Why)
• In Rare Admission of Guilt, Wall St. Banks Say They Rigged Markets. (CBS)

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The best new science skill is ...

 

 

via The New Yorker.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Invent the Future. (HBR)
• Transformation: The Imperative to Change. (BCG Perspectives)
• 100 Years of Change. (Daily Infographic)
• The Quest to Measure Machine Intelligence. (MIT Technology Review)
• Why Scientists Believe Dogs Are Smarter Than We Give Them Credit For. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• Billionaires 2015: The Richest People on the Planet. (Forbes)
• Where Do the World’s Wealthiest People Live? (WSJ Blogs)
• Why Americans Are Giving Up Their Passports. (NYTimes)
• Quantum Computers Will Change The World, Business, and Trading. (BizInsider)
• Should Mutual Funds Be Illegal? (Bloomberg View)

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Attracting the Faithful isn't as easy as it used to be.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Disruption Machine. (New Yorker)
• How Watson Changed IBM. (Harvard Business Review)
• Download the 'Conversational Geek' e-book. (Infoworld)
• 25 of Oscar Wilde's Wittiest Quotes. (Mental Floss)
• What Democrats can learn from Republicans. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• Michael Lewis Reflects on Flash Boys. (Vanity Fair)
• High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Rise. (Businessweek)
• The 20 Fastest-Growing Economies This Year Business. (Bloomberg)
• Feds’ Crystal Ball Shows Oil Comeback. (Investing Daily)
• Presenting De-Dollarization in One Simple Map. (ZeroHedge)

Walking in Memphis

Last week I had the opportunity to attend a charity barbecue cook-off in Memphis.

Turns out I was there the night B.B. King died. Here is a picture at his bar that night.

 

 

The group I was with was relatively small ... but accounts for a large portion of the daily ag trading volume on the exchange. As a technical trader, it was interesting to listen to them discuss fundamental trading techniques (like crop forecasts and weather forecasts). But I wasn't ready for what I found when I visited one of their offices.

 

 

 

via YouTube.

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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)