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"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali

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“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.” - Alice Walker

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Huawei update. The Department of Justice indicted Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou collectively on over two dozen charges this week, ranging from corporate espionage to bank fraud. Huawei said it is "disappointed" by the charges, most of which relate to a civil suit that was settled in 2017. The...

Number one threat. U.S. intelligence agencies labelled China the top cyber security threat in their annual Worldwide Threat Assessment briefing. The report warned that China had the ability to cause localized, temporary disruption to critical infrastructure through cyber warfare. The report was...

Top Traders Unplugged with Niels Kaastrup-Larsen... Meb Faber show...

Hedge Fund RenTech Created the Ultimate, Tax-Free IRA Account for Employees (Bloomberg) Renaissance Technologies, the giant hedge fund founded by billionaire Jim Simons, looks like it has created the premier, tax-free retirement account for its employees. A deft maneuver back in 2012 enabled...

Einhorn’s Greenlight Soars 13% in Firm’s Best-Ever January(Bloomberg) David Einhornis starting the year on a high note as he looks to avoid a repeat of his hedge fund’s poor performance in 2018.Greenlight Capital’s main fund rose 13.4 percent to post the best January in its 23-year history...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/01/dublin-man-pleads-guilty-for-insider-trading-of-millions-at-ross-stores/

'Replicator' 3-D printer uses light to create structures in one piece A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have unveiled a 3-D printer that uses light to create an entire object at once. It's called the Replicator, named after the machines in the Star Trek...

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“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” - Carol Burnett

Who is Bob Swan, Intel’s surprise CEO pick? Intel spent seven months searching for a new chief executive only to end the process right where it had started. The chipmaking giant said on Thursday that its next CEO—only the seventh in the company’s 50-year history—would be Bob Swan, who had been...

Judge says PG&E has “clear-cut” pattern of starting wildfires A federal judge said the California utility giant has a “clear-cut pattern” of starting wildfires and needs “strong medicine” put in place before this year’s season begins. U.S. District Judge William Alsup is overseeing PG&E’s...

German Banks Bloomberg's Elisa Martinuzzi has a good analysis of the mooted Deutsche Bank-Commerzbank merger, and why investors have cause for concern. From the piece: "Combining two of Europe's most inefficient banks to create an even bigger supertanker would require tens of thousands of job...

Erik Prince A security firm run by Erik Prince—the Blackwater founder and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—will build a training center in China's Xinjiang province. That's the province where Uighur Muslims are being persecuted and imprisoned en masse, so expect a ton of a controversy...