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• Yellen on Fed’s Stimulus Campaign
• Sovereign-Bank Nexus
• DNA Explained
• 10 Thursday PM Reads
• When Markets Are Wrong
• Tanker Tracker
• 10 Thursday AM Reads
• Secret, Whisper and the Anonymous Troll
• Psychology Charts & Sentiment Cycles (Updated)

Yellen on Fed’s Stimulus Campaign Posted: 21 Mar 2014 03:30 AM PDT Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, spoke at a news conference after the Fed announced it would reduce its monthly bond purchases because of the economic recovery's progress.   click for video NYT, March 19th, 2014

Sovereign-Bank Nexus Posted: 21 Mar 2014 02:00 AM PDT

DNA Explained Posted: 20 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PDT   Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.   See previously Creationism in Public Schools Mapped

10 Thursday PM Reads Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT Here are my afternoon train reads: • The Default Portfolio (Morningstar) see also Here’s How 18 Categories Of Equity Funds Measure Up Against Their Respective Indices (Business Insider) • Gold vs. bitcoin: An apocalyptic showdown (Fortune) • The Chartbook of Economic Inequality (Institute for New Economic Thinking) • Larry Page Lays Out His Plan for Your Future (Wired) • U.S. regulator says knocking out nine key substations could cause nationwide blackout (WSJ) • Science Deniers Are Freaking Out About “Cosmos” (Bill Moyers) • The Fed doesn’t care about the unemployment rate anymore (Fortune) • What does Yellen’s “around six months” mean? (Calculated Risk) • Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change (FiveThirtyEight) but see Changing Americans’ Minds on Climate Change (Bloomberg View) • 49 Reasons To Love Greece (BuzzFeed) What are you reading?   Unemployment Rate by Duration Source: WonkBlog

When Markets Are Wrong Posted: 20 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT   My favorite chart on the website this week (so far) comes from Matthew Klein's column: Is Yahoo's Business Worth Less Than Nothing? And it's filled with informative details. Yahoo! Inc.'s total value is represented by the first bar. If you subtract the value of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo! Japan Corp. you are left with Yahoo’s core business — excluding its Japanese and Chinese investments — and a negative valuation. continues here

Tanker Tracker Posted: 20 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT Source: Oil Buyer’s Guide, Bloomberg Brief

10 Thursday AM Reads Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:15 AM PDT Some reads for the first day of spring: • Analysts React: 'You Have to Read This Statement as Risk Off' (MoneyBeat) see also How Long is Six Months, Really? (Real Time Economics) • Eisinger: The "revolt of the Muppets" is heating up. (DealBook) • The Bearishness of the Eurodollar Chart Cannot Be Overemphasized! (Peter L. Brandt) • The Bankers Behind FDR and the Glass-Steagall Act (Fortune)   continues here

Secret, Whisper and the Anonymous Troll Posted: 20 Mar 2014 06:15 AM PDT Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is none too happy these days. As the New York Times reported yesterday in a front-page article, the inventor of the web browser and co-founder of Netscape is miffed at the latest Silicon Valley fad: Anonymous sniping from within the tech industry. Several new anonymous social commenting apps and startups — with names like Secret and Whisper — are generating lots of buzz. As it turns out, these new social networks have provided "a rare, unvarnished look at the ambitions, disappointments, rivalries, jealousies and obsessions of the engineers and entrepreneurs" of Silicon Valley, the Times reported. Andreessen's complaints are valid. Combining the anonymity of comment trolling with social networking creates a greenhouse for sniping snarkiness. Anonymity may work well for whistleblowers, but in a small community of over-worked geeks, it might be creating some problems. A debate on anonymous postings has long raged on the Internet. continues here

Psychology Charts & Sentiment Cycles (Updated) Posted: 20 Mar 2014 05:00 AM PDT We are overdue for an update of these charts. (See also Economic Cycles):   Bubbles and Manias Source: Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Dept. of Global Studies & Geography, Hofstra University ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Gartner: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Source: Gartner August 2013 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Real Estate Cycle of Sentiment ~~~

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