POLITICS

I recently watched Ghost Exchange, a primer on the evolution of HFT and its impacts on various markets. Ghost Exchange covers the multitude of flash crashes and trading abnormalities [...]

Mark Schwartz, the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and chairman of the firms Asia Pacific group, reviews China’s prospects for grappling with the country’s environmental issues strained [...]

Education is intended to be a direct channel to meaningful employment and prosperity at the individual, state, and federal levels, but the U.S. continues to [...]

Metalysis is a firm that is creating an innovative way to produce a variety of metals at significantly lower cost. Somewhat similar to the Hall [...]

The Milken Institute Global 2013 Conference is currently underway (Apr 28 - May 1) and features a powerhouse list of industry leaders as speakers. Yesterdays lunch panel [...]

We have some critical decisions to make as elections quickly approach. This is an issue that WILL affect our local economy and daily lives, regardless of the path chosen. My hope in presenting this information is to spur a discussion to better understand what route we should take.

Did the bubble just pop? Chart via Markets.Blockchain.info UPDATE: Market has slightly recovered, last trade at $168.253   [Photo: poopoorama/Flickr]

Jason Perlow, Senior Tech Editor at ZDNet, raises a pressing concern that many have yet to consider: How will Chinese and Korean instability affect technology production? Perlow outlines country specific [...]

It seems the model for recapitalize failing financial institutions has changed from spreading the liability across taxpayers to raiding depositors. In a recent note from [...]

Allan Savory challenges traditional understandings of climate change and desertification in a recent TED presentation. As demand for necessities (food, water, shelter) exponentially grow, holistic grazing tactics are [...]

Milton Friedman challenges the belief that capitalism and greed are bad characteristics of the American economy in an 1979 interview with Phil Donahue. Given events over [...]

Reposted from the Themis Trading Blog: Dear Mary Jo, Congratulations on your nomination for SEC Chairman.  As you may know, we at Themis Trading are, and [...]

Yes, you read that correctly. Steven Mufson of the Washington Post recently discussed such a possibility in his article To solve our debt problems, let’s sell Alaska. Mufson runs through a list of buyers that include Alaskans, Russians, Chinese, Donald Trump, and Middle East Sovereign Wealth Funds.

John Boehner and Eric Cantor speak at a news conference on the fiscal cliff issue

The first article in Bloomberg’s America’s Great State Payroll Giveaway series gives depressing insight on inadequate government controls and over the top compensation of public employees across the nation. California leads the way with the average public salary of $60,317 and total overtime pay of $963,900,000!

Chris Cox and Bill Archer wrote an awesome article on the true US debt, which most calculate around $16T. They make the argument that the majority of government liabilities are excluded from this number and, under common business regulation, should be disclosed. The problem stems from entitlements and if these outstanding liabilities were fully disclosed the federal deficit would more accurately reflect $86.8 trillion or about 550% of GDP.

A Communist Party newspaper, The Peoples Daily, fell for the Onion’s proclamation of North Korea’s leader being the sexiest man of 2012. The paper quoted the Onion story and added a 55 photo gallery of the beloved Kim Jong-Un.

Aaron Burr, Part 2 is a short film that takes a modern look into the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. The video premiered at the 2011 New York Film Festival.

Warren Buffett recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, suggesting a minimum tax for the wealthy. He goes through an analysis of decreasing tax rates on the highest income earners and decreasing GDP paired with increasing national deficits, concluding that tax reform shouldn’t be delayed on protecting an growing unequal advantage.

President Obama recently traveled to Myanmar (also known as Burma) and gave, “a speech at the University of Yangon… encourag(ing) the nation to continue investing in its young citizens and pursuing a more democratic government”. This is the first time that a serving U.S. President has visited the previously dictator ruled country.