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Tudor Jones Says Next Round of China Tariffs Could Tip Us Into a Recession(CNBC) Hedge fund billionairePaul Tudor Jonesbelieves the market is underestimating the economic impact of tariffs. “We’ll really have to see the impact they are going to have and if the next round of tariffs gets...

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” - Mark Twain

im·per·turb·a·ble /ˌimpərˈtərbəb(ə)l/ adjective unable to be upset or excited; calm. "an imperturbable tranquility" synonyms: self-possessed, composed, collected, calm, cool, calm, and collected, as cool as a cucumber, coolheaded, self-controlled, poised, tranquil, serene, relaxed, easygoing...

Jerry Jones Is Betting on Natural Gas. Should You? Dallas Cowboys owner is ponying up another $475 million for the fuel; ‘I believe in natural gas in a big way’ Jerry Jones was a veteran oilman when he purchased the Cowboys in 1989 for $140 million. Photo: Keith Birmingham/MediaNews...

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“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” - J.P. Morgan

Facebook Tracking Facebook has launched a new app that will monitor everything users do on their phones, in exchange for payment. It did this before, of course, getting it into trouble with Apple in particular. This time Facebook is claiming more transparency and security—and the app is only...

Amazon's giant Sudoku puzzle. Wired visited one of Amazon's cutting-edge warehouses in Colorado, where robots and people work together to ensure that customers get their packages delivered on time. To help the robots move in the warehouse, the company created a cloud-based coordination system...

IBM researchers participated in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session, and fielded questions from Reddit users about A.I. One Reddit user asked about the potential roadblocks to Artificial General Intelligence, tech speak for A.I. that is as capable as human intelligence. John Smith, an IBM...

“We have no tariffs, Mr. President , and we left with our dignity intact.”— Mexican Foreign Minster Marcelo Ebrard

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“I’ll play it first, and tell you what it is later.” - Miles Davis

Dirty Money The European Banking Authority does not have the power to stop a wave of money-laundering across the EU, the regulator's head has said. Jose Manuel Campa told the Financial Times: "There have been cases of money laundering in Europe, yes, in some cases pretty sizeable ones. I'm not...

Hipster Antitrust Microsoft president Brad Smith, who was the company's general counsel during its antitrust wars in the 1990s, reckons changes are coming to antitrust enforcement as regulators find new ways to evaluate the behavior of tech giants. Smith concurred with the analysis of Fortune's...

Fiat Renault French officials hope the moribund merger of Fiat Chrysler and Renault can be brought back from the dead. Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne said she believed talks were not closed, and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the merger was still a "good opportunity." Reuters

Amazon Brand Amazon is now the world's most valuable brand at $315.5 billion, which is up more than half on a year ago, according to Kantar's BrandZ Top 100. This is the first time in a dozen years that the top spot has not been occupied by Apple or Google. Here's Kantar's Doreen Wang, giving...

AQR’s Problem With Machine Learning: Cats Morph Into Dogs The noise and adaptability of financial markets make them tricky for the technology. Julie Segal June 10, 2019 Photo by Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Machine learning has done magic, such as beating human chess champions. But in...

“The real risk is that investors 'buy the damn dip' at some point in August and what if it's not a dip? What if the Fed needs to cut by 50 to 100 basis points just to satisfy the market?" —CEO Keith McCullough, The Macro Show, 6/5/2019

Neil Woodford doesn’t deserve your sympathy – his troubles are all his own fault By: Merryn Somerset Webb10/06/2019 There are rules in fund management. You learn them pretty early in your career. They aren’t complicated, but they are important. Don’t take on too much money, particularly in...

The Slumping South By 2009, the U.S. South was almost as wealthy as its neighboring regions, due to lower taxes and policies that created blue-collar jobs. But in the years since the financial crisis, the South's fortunes have turned—weighing down output and wages and pushing up unemployment—as...