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There are a lot of things I like about ZeroHedge (I read it multiple times a day), but I’ve got a few gripes. First, their comments section, as some of you know, is a brutal cesspool. Second, on occasions when there are data spikes in a feed (thus producing a corresponding huge spike in a chart), they will write up a “WTF??” article about it as if it was real, even though it isn’t.
But perhaps what bugs me most of all is this kind of thing:
First of all, I wanted to let you know I did something I wish I had done years ago, which is set up PUSH notifications for Slope. By agreeing to receive these notifications, it means you’ll get a little message like the one below each time a new post is released, so that you don’t have to periodically check Slope to see what’s new.
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(more…)Back in mid-December, as I was thumbing through the Sunday Wall Street Journal at a fencing tournament, I read a lengthy, in-depth analysis of General Electric. It was quite a damning piece, and it was long enough to be a novella. I tweeted out this image from the paper, since I found it funny that GE had paid for an advertisement that the WSJ decided to put right next to this corporate tear-down:
A wonderful interview with one of my favorite people in the world.
You know the saying about a great book: “I couldn’t put it down.” That’s how I felt about the documentary I watched last night.
I didn’t intend to spend ninety minutes watching it: I was going to bed and, out of curiosity, thought I’d watch a minute or two. But I watched it, spellbound, until the very end.
The documentary is “The Greatest Party That Never Happened”, and you Netflix subscribers can watch it. Here’s the trailer:
