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“If you speak when angry, you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” - Groucho Marx

Privacy Legislation Here's a piece written by yours truly (meaning David) about the increasing likelihood of data privacy legislation being passed in the U.S. A year ago, that would have been unthinkable—but a lot has happened in the last year. And yes, Facebook's behavior is a big factor here...

But Wait, There's More The Fed also released its first-ever financial stability report yesterday, which warned of risks that could whack the markets. Those risks include ongoing trade tensions, rising corporate debt from companies that have weak balance sheets, and rising geopolitical...

GLOBAL ECONOMIC FORECAST: Q4 2018 AND BEYOND MARKET AND ECONOMICS BySara B. Potter, CFA | November 28, 2018 As we near the end of 2018, Sara Potter examines the performance of the global economy so far this year and presents projections for the rest of 2018 and 2019 from various sources. Read...

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Facebook Burn Lawmakers from various countries, who held an extraordinary joint hearing at the British Parliament yesterday regarding Facebook's privacy problem, were not happy that Mark Zuckerberg refused (yet again) to visit London to face the music. So much so that they left an empty chair...

Amazon’s Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in the company’s history Amazon said on Tuesday it just had its biggest shopping day in the company’s history on Cyber Monday, based on the number of products sold worldwide. (TechCrunch)

For a small fee, entrepreneurs can manage own fleet of Bird e-scooters Bird announced today that it will sell its electric scooters to entrepreneurs and small business owners, who can then rent them out as part of a new service called Bird Platform. The company will provide the independent...

California, Quebec hold successful cap-trade auction California and Quebec held a joint cap-and-trade auction earlier this month, selling all of the current and future vintage greenhouse gas emission allowances and garnering about $813 million for the state's GHG reduction fund that supports...

California, Quebec hold successful cap-trade auction California and Quebec held a joint cap-and-trade auction earlier this month, selling all of the current and future vintage greenhouse gas emission allowances and garnering about $813 million for the state's GHG reduction fund that supports...

California, Quebec hold successful cap-trade auction California and Quebec held a joint cap-and-trade auction earlier this month, selling all of the current and future vintage greenhouse gas emission allowances and garnering about $813 million for the state's GHG reduction fund that supports...

Report puts losses from California wildfires at $15B to $19B The report from industry data provider CoreLogic shows total losses from the Camp Fire are estimated to be between $11 billion and $13 billion. Total losses from the Woolsey Fire in Southern California are estimated to be an...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/28/magnus-carlsen-beats-fabiano-caruana-in-world-chess-championship-tie-breakers

Is that Bill Gross' play pad?

Who would win in a battle between a wolf and a Kangal? 1) https://www.quora.com/Who-would-win-in-a-battle-between-a-wolf-and-a-Kangal 2) https://www.quora.com/Can-a-Kangal-defeat-a-lone-wolf-in-a-head-on-battle

PREPARING FOR ANOTHER CRISIS? As outlined in detail on November 17, when market participants see really unfavorable economic and market outcomes, they anticipate future Fed rate cuts and begin migrating to defensive long-term Treasury bonds. Since the S&P 500 hit the first 2018 peak on January...

Och-Ziff’s Shares Stumble Toward NYSE Delisting Territory at $1(Bloomberg) BillionaireDan Och’s hedge fund is pennies away from raising a red flag at the New York Stock Exchange. Shares of hisOch-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC— one of the few publicly traded hedge-fund firms — have plummeted...