Home-Flipping Collapses in San Francisco, Losses Spread by Wolf Richter • Aug 30, 2014 • 8 Comments The magic mix becomes toxic.
“Money”: a Virtual Digital Particle Created by Keystrokes by WOLF STREET Reader • Aug 29, 2014 • 2 Comments Reader speaks up: hilarious, but so true in many ways
What the Heck Just Happened at the San Francisco Apple Store? by Wolf Richter • Aug 29, 2014 • 9 Comments Not everyone is irrationally exuberant.
New Technology Could End The Debate Over Pipeline Safety by Oilprice.com • Aug 28, 2014 • 1 Comment Pipelines corrode and rupture, threatening workers, the environment, and nearby communities. In 2013, over 119,000 barrels of oil were spilled in 623 incidents.
Pump and Dump: How to Rig the Entire IPO Market with just $20 Million by Wolf Richter • Aug 28, 2014 • 9 Comments The price of market manipulation keeps dropping.
The Committee to Blow Up the World! by Bill Bonner • Aug 27, 2014 • 1 Comment Why would this bullishness extend to practically the entire globe?
Russia Sanctions Hit German Consumers, “Economic Expectations Completely Collapse” by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2014 • 10 Comments The “faster rotating sanctions spiral with Russia” causes the worst plunge in the history of the German consumer index going back to 1980.
Economist: Stocks No Longer Risky, Will Go Up ‘Steadily’ by Wolf Richter • Aug 26, 2014 • 8 Comments With fundamentals and economic realities having become totally irrelevant these days, economists are reassigned to tout stocks.
Comcast Data Breach of Unlisted Phone Numbers Threatens Customers by Electronic Frontier Foundation • Aug 26, 2014 • 2 Comments How a mistake in an industry built on the acquisition and selling of personal information can hurt people.
The World’s Most Dangerous Dams by Llewellyn King • Aug 26, 2014 • 1 Comment Two dams that will fail unless they are urgently repaired. And if they fail, catastrophic loss of life will be the result.