My afternoon train reading:
• Trade of the Year? (The Reformed Broker)
• Top 10 Hedge Funds By Net Gains Since Inception (Market Folly) see also Dalio Earned Clients $13.8 Billion to Lead Hedge Funds as Paulson Slumped (Bloomberg)
• Swap Talks Over Greece Could Test the Marke (DealBook)
• Grantham wonders if Marx was right after all (MarketWatch)
• Sorry, SEC. Fast trading on Wall Street is here to stay (Fortune)
• Bin Laden hide-out: Leaks suggest Pakistani officers knew (CS Monitor)
• Romney’s Top 10 Wealth Gaffes (The Wealth Report)
• The Writer’s Job (NY Books)
• Issues in Scaling Civilization: The Altruism Problem (Cultural Engineer)
• I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave (MoJo)
What are you reading?
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Banks Rev Up Lending
Source: WSJ
Category: Financial Press
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That MoJo article was on last night’s list. Did something get left out of tonight’s reading list, or did BR and Anna get their lines crossed today?
for those so enamored with the ‘MoJo’-article..
they may care to understand some of..
http://search.yippy.com/search?query=Kiva+Robotics+Warehousing+Systems&tb=sitesearch-all&v%3Aproject=clusty
Something I read recently:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/shame-on-the-rich.html?ref=hp
when i first saw that article , i couldn’t understand how those jobs were so stressful as they are described cause in a previous life i worked for a company that had automated its warehouse, and I don’t recall their workers having any thing like those conditions. but that was the 1980s, so maybe workers got better treatment then?
Why women cry – not to avoid getting laid:
http://scienceblogs.com/observations/2011/01/why_do_women_cry_obviously_its.php
Pakistan officials and citizens knowing Bin-Laden was living in Pakistan is a news story?
Really??
Granthem talks as if capitalism is what is going on. That is kind of silly. There is an awful lot of socialism & fascism [intermingling of govt & corporate interest] polluting our markets. The most central price of our economy is fixed at negative real rates by the witchdoctors in that Politburo called the Fed.
In a capitalist economy, we would be free to use money that is backed by something. We’ve lost that set of freedoms. If you have a cow, you can’t even legally sell your neighbor milk. We would know a free market if it bit us in the…
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
Given the state of affairs, it may not be incorrect to suspect that would indeed double net savings….
Thanks for the MoJo article, “I was a Warehouse Wage Slave.” No amount of convenience ordering from Amazon can make up for the deliberate degradation of the people in their warehouses filling our orders.