Saturday, June 19, 2010

Nightly Reads

What I found interesting today:


Marcelo Garcia and a chess champ put together Marcelo's online grappling service: the site itself is MGinAction (It's good)

Seeing as to me being a hater when it comes to politics, I found this refreshing: (msnbc)

Here's a bit of reposting a quick takedown by Yves Smith of nakedcapitalism:

Obama’s Twist of BP’s Arm Stirs Debate on Common Tactic New York Times. OMG, the Grey Lady is simply troweling out the Team Obama PR. Go back to the Roosevelts, either Teddy or FDR, to see what taking on the corporate power structure really looks like. And Johnson and Nixon kept them in line through means less visible to the public, such as J. Edgar Hoover’s famed dossiers on prominent individuals, including CEOs (of course, in our total surveillance society, one can only imagine what information the powers that be can gather now, but . Companies did not DREAM of negotiating with government on an equal footing, which as Richard Kline pointed out, is exactly what happened with BP.
An Inside Oil and Gas Engineer's Take on the BP spill



Books Currently Reading:
Reminiscences of a Stock Market Operator by Edwin Lefevre (Jesse Livermore)
Econned by Yves Smith
The Concept of Anxiety by Soren Kierkegaard

Books Recently Purchased:
13 Bankers by Simon Johnson
The Fighters Mind by Sam Sheridan


To cover tomorrow:
BP Spill to Day 60 (More on forecasts of this tomorrow - just to note, I'm going to take some of the other references I've heard of, and just go with it. Not at all an expert, just going to throw some numbers out there)
Jiu jitsu game: going to talk about different positions and how I'm currently breaking things down. Getting the notes out.


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