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Monday, January 5, 2015

The Big Picture

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60 Minutes: Inside the Vatican

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 02:30 PM PST

Scott Pelley profiles Pope Francis, a pontiff who is surprising the world by spurning tradition; and, Morley Safer gets a rare look inside the Vatican Library.

 

Source: CBS

 

14 Meaningless Stock Market Phrases

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST

Great list from Henry Blodget of Business Insider

14 Meaningless Phrases That Will Make You Sound Like A Stock-Market Wizard

"The easy money has been made."
"I'm cautiously optimistic."
"It's a stockpicker's market."
"It's not a stock market. It's a market of stocks."
"We're constructive on the market."
"Stocks are down on 'profit taking.'"
"The trend is your friend."
"More buyers than sellers."
"There's lots of cash on the sidelines."
"We're in a bottoming process."
"Overbought."
"Buy on weakness."
"Take a wait-and-see approach."
"It's a show-me stock."

The full article with detailed explanations is worth a read.

 

Source:
14 Meaningless Phrases That Will Make You Sound Like A Stock-Market Wizard
Henry Blodget
Business Insider, December 29, 2014
http://www.businessinsider.com/meaningless-market-phrases-that-sound-smart-2014-12

10 Sunday AM Reads

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 04:30 AM PST

Good morn! Have a cup of fresh brewed Sumatra, kick back, and enjoy our Sunday morning reads:

• They also served: How statisticians changed the war, and the war changed statistics (The Economist)
Jeffrey Gundlach's Surprising Forecast: The bond titan thinks the 10-year could potentially take out its modern-era low of 1.38% (Barron’s)
• My Expected Investment Changes in 2015 (Rick Ferri) but see Don't Interfere With Your Investment Strategy (Irrelevant Investor)
• The best investing tidbits of 2014 (Vanguard)
• Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours (Industry Tap)
• Good Times Run Out for Sand Producers: Fracking Boom Pushed Up Demand, but Oil-Price Collapse Alters Outlook (WSJ)
• My Favorite Graph of 2014: The Rise and Rise of the Top 0.1 Percent (Slate) see also Joseph Stiglitz: Thomas Piketty gets income inequality wrong (Salon)
• How the technology industry is beginning to rethink Moore's Law (Venture Beat)
• 5 Things We Learned About The Brain In 2014 (HuffPo)
• How a false witness helped the CIA make a case for torture (Al Jazeera America)

What are you reading?

 

 

 Good Times Run Out for Sand Producers

Source: WSJ

 

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