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If you're going to do a Davos south at least let us know who we can expect to hobnob with. There's no point if we can't extract some info,work the party in dealmaking parlance. Here's a handy template from Davos 2014. http://qz.com/166889/the-list-of-everyone-attending-davos-this-year/

Nitro, want something to worry about? http://www.businessinsider.com/high-uranium-levels-of-drinking-water-in-the-central-us-2015-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/r-insecticide-linked-by-some-to-honey-bee-die-offs-found-in-us-stream-samples-2015-8...

Toms of Maine is best source of natural products. http://www.tomsofmaine.com/home

Every game requires the inept and fools. Markets are a game of information, the acquisition, processing, interpretation of information. Information is always asymmetrical. Processing is encumbered by the lens, personal bias of the perceiver. Interpretive modeling is a further biased rabbit hole...

Apparently the Stifel presentation on Thurs is attracting investment. A limited number of attractive stories exist out there and the potential for alpha in this name provides a favorable risk profile for long term investment. For the first time in history more households $$ was spent dining...

To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane - even for domestic flights...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Islam is antithetical to the Constitution, and he doesn't believe that a Muslim should be elected president. http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-gop-candidate-carson-muslim-shouldnt-be-elected-president-2015-9

Nine massive banks just teamed up to take the technology behind bitcoin mainstream http://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-barclays-and-others-join-r3-on-blockchain-project-2015-9?r=UK&IR=T

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/09/20150913_once.jpg

Ya, starting to sound like Romans paying off the various forms of Huns to not invade at the end times of their gig.

Richmond, California, had 46 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2007, making it one of the most deadly places in the US — up there with murder capitals like Flint, Michigan, and New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2014, that number dropped to just 11 homicides per 100,000 residents. That's a 76%...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11465481/Global-finance-faces-9-trillion-stress-test-as-dollar-soars.html http://www.otterwoodcapital.com/2015/03/03/fear-us-dollar-strength/

Fetching hundreds of thousands of pounds, they’re the ultimate statement piece. Who are the people that make the world’s most intricately designed watches? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150826-the-super-luxury-watches-that-take-years-to-make

It's not bitcoin itself they're interested in, it's underlying tech, the blockchain. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-09-01/blythe-masters-tells-banks-the-blockchain-changes-everything They aren't backing anything that doesn't benefit them in multiple ways...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White is facing pressure to recuse herself from picking the next head of the regulator that polices accountants because of a potential conflict with her husband’s legal work...

From Marketwatch: Volume is expected to be elevated on Friday due to “quadruple witching. Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading, said the Fed’s window for tightening has probably been shut now. He said the central bank is paralyzed by fear of deflationary effects from a...

http://www.businessinsider.com/athletes-are-only-the-tip-of-the-steroid-iceberg-2015-9

If you are a white person who grew up in the United States, you are very likely racist. http://qz.com/502019/if-youre-white-science-says-youre-probably-a-racist-now-what/

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/30/world-population-quarter-of-earth-will-be-african-in-2050.html Does anybody know how fast those Indian trains go, those "outside" riders look like risky biz to me.

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20150916-mercedes-benz-concept-iaa-is-the-shape-shifting-cls-of-tomorrow