Wednesday 26 February 2014

26th Feb

Bubble chat: This is no recovery, this is a bubble – and it will burst
{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/24/recovery-bubble-crash-uk-us-investors}

Top 10 Portable Homes
{http://www.ignant.de/2014/02/25/top-10-portable-homes/}


Cold great lakes

Insane Div's, 20% Dividend Yield: There’s an ETF for That
{http://etfdb.com/2014/20-dividend-yield-theres-an-etf-for-that/}

Monday 24 February 2014

Tuesday 18 February 2014

18th Feb


Gold price signals China credit bubble bursting as investors seek safety
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/10642184/Gold-price-signals-China-credit-bubble-bursting-as-investors-seek-safety.html}

China bubble, Will China shake the world again?
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26225205}

Relationship between London houses and their occupants
Raito ofmedian individual income to median house prices for some selected boroughs.
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/17/1774432/go-forth-and-multiply-london-edition/}


Buying Property In London: The 10Th Circle Of Hell
 {http://www.bankersumbrella.com/1/post/2014/02/buying-property-in-london-the-10th-circle-of-hell.html}


Jim Rogers Tells Us What Everyone Keeps Getting Wrong About China
BI: How concerned should we be about the economic slowdown in China?
JR: Not much...
{http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-rogers-worries-on-china-2014-2}

Peak Milk, perhaps not
Cows are incredible: They might just keep producing more milk forever
{http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/17/cows-are-incredible-they-might-just-keep-producing-more-milk-forever/}

Quite handy:
Be a Google Ninja: Tips and Tricks for Online Research
{http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/02/17/be-a-google-ninja-tips-and-tricks-for-online-research/}

Seiko Men's SKX007K2, $180 Dive Watch puts Rolex Submariners On notice.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner, despite the long list of pros, it has one con. A big, fat $7,900 con.
{http://www.supercompressor.com/gear/seiko-skx007k2-vs-rolex-submariner-smart-money?utm_content=sixpack&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Nation&utm_campaign=2.18.14%20NATION%3A%20These%20are%20the%2023%20types%20of%20baristas}

Monday 17 February 2014

Friday 14 February 2014

Friday the 14th

hmmm, not in my life time but interesting...
Why Gold Will Eventually Be Almost Worthless
{http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/why-gold-will-eventually-be-almost-worthless/}

House of the day, check out the attic
{http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41542705.html#}

laying out the practicalities of a monetary independent Scotland
Scotland, Quebec, and currency union
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2014/02/scotland-quebec-and-currency-union.html}

Thursday 13 February 2014

Thursday the 13th

"Yes, the floods are awful, but we must keep a sense of proportion".
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10633669/Yes-the-floods-are-awful-but-we-must-keep-a-sense-of-proportion.html}

Old story, but new format The European Debt Crisis Visualized {http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-european-debt-crisis-visualized-iPA3~AbsSGG89LOGkkd~RA.html

Thoughts on the gold market -It could another dead cat bounce, that is, the perception of monetary instability expressed in the gold market may have shifted from QE to a long term failure to raise interest rates. {http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/02/what-is-gold-saying-about-the-australian-dollar/

UK Interest rates to move Q1 next year? {http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/02/asx-at-the-close-208/} Chinese Stocks Come Back, momentum in China Stocks {http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/02/11/chinese-stocks-come-back/?mod=WSJBlog



Comodity watch,  sugar & sucralose Tate & Lyle warns sucralose glut to hit profits {http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10635360/Tate-and-Lyle-warns-sucralose-glut-to-hit-profits.html

looking at previous sugar spikes Parabolic Moves Always Have Their Reasons {http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/tim-wood/parabolic-moves-always-have-their-reasons
Sugar spikes – Where did you come from, where did you go? {http://www.australiansugarcane.com.au/Back%20issues/135onsug09/20_spikes.pdf}

Thursday 6 February 2014

Feb 6th

The 50 Best Investing Blogs
{http://dailyreckoning.com/the-50-best-investing-blogs/}

Why I rent and would never buy
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c240cd3a-8805-11e3-8afa-00144feab7de.html#axzz2sWnMBVIJ}

go J

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Feb 4, 2014

And for this month, a new theme repeated...zz
Jack Lew: US could default on debt by 'end of month'
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26021640}

Putting China's shadow banks in to perspective
In defence of China’s shadow banks
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/03/1759962/in-defence-of-chinas-shadow-banks/}


A central banker’s ‘license to lie’
{http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/01/30/a-central-bankers-license-to-lie/}

Goldman Sachs tears apart another European government
{http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/03/1274745/-Goldman-Sachs-brings-down-another-European-government#}

How to Lie With Statistics (in the Age of Big Data)
{http://mathbabe.org/2014/02/03/how-to-lie-with-statistics-in-the-age-of-big-data/}

It's a great time to buy British - these are the shares I'm backing...
Where in the world are shares cheap?
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/10610610/Worlds-cheapest-stock-markets-Where-are-shares-cheap.html}

Monday 3 February 2014

Feb 3rd

Econbrowser, Economics of Bitcoins
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/02/economics-of-bitcoin#comment-179418

A good infograph on sovereign debt stresses, gross debt to GDP and borrowing costs