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At least Chi town is still by the people, for the people. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-05/chicago-re-elects-councilman-facing-murder-drug-charges

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lies-ahead-qualcomm-mobile-chip-201057620.html

This year, 5,000 girls from 60 countries participated in the Global Technovation Challenge. Their task? Create an app to tackle a problem in their community - all from the ground up. This is their story. https://www.madewithcode.com/codegirl/

muslims will will "conquer Europe not with weapons, but with birth rates." http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-04/muslim-man-warns-germans-we-will-marry-your-daughters-and-conquer-you-births

A new biography of George HW Bush quotes the former president saying Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld damaged the reputation of the US. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/george-bush-senior-iron-ass-cheney-arrogant-rumsfeld-damaged-america

The Bond books are about machismo, alpha cool, and were little read before JFK mentioned them as a favorite. The main template for Bond was a true life Canadian. A larger than life alpha male,William Stephenson. “James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy,” Fleming wrote. “The...

The data is the sub-state counterpart of the nationwide GDP. It is the most comprehensive measure of economic activity. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-04/visualizing-where-moneys-made-america

Professional investors have a wider scope of awareness that includes all aspects of a company's business model. Pull up daily charts of TWX and DIS, note the correlation. Understand why this is and that we shouldn't have both in the same portfolio since it would amount to one play...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-03/cost-of-cheapest-obamacare-plans-is-soaring?cmpid=yhoo.headline

If you get DIS eps on WED drop me a pm so I too can maneuver before the rest of world gets it on Thurs. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Walt Disney Co.(DIS - Get Report) stock is rising by 0.76% to $115.92 in midday trading on Tuesday, after announcing a new show withVice Media on A+E Networks, and...

http://www.techinsider.io/the-most-exciting-innovations-of-the-year-2015-10

An add to Vicirek's post. According to Belfiore, the information is "helpful to the ecosystem, and so not an issue of personal privacy." http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-vp-joe-belfiore-on-windows-10-privacy-2015-11 Perhaps the maker of the mattress he sleeps on can place cameras in his...

Color yourself naive. http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/13/investing/hillary-clinton-wall-street/

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/26/tax-crackdowns-threaten-channel-islands

http://www.aiwm.org/files/CIWM_Brochure.pdf

Wake up and smell reality. The largest takeover of the year is about avoiding US taxes http://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-allergan-tax-inversion-2015-10 Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/elite-wealth-management/410842/

(Reuters) - Six big U.S. banks need to raise an additional $120 billion, most likely in long-term debt, under a rule proposed on Friday by the Federal Reserve. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/largest-u-banks-face-120-001110728.html?l=1

And Now There Is Fraud http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-30/obamacare-disaster-co-op-insurers-across-america-are-collapsing-and-now-there-fraud

Airbnb, the $25 billion global-hospitality behemoth, may have met its match. And right in its hometown of San Francisco. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-two-faces-of-airbnb-2015-10

Yet another ET personal opinion thread. There are filters to sort this out. 1. Who did the United States of America call on to bail Goldman Sachs et al out thereby preventing a financial debacle with catastrophic potential. A: Warren Buffet B: Altucher 2. Who would people...