Monthly Archives: December 2010

Tesla Motors’s stock: +30% since Jim Cramer dissed it on CNBC. – [VIDEO]

Tesla @ Google Finance.

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Nassim Taleb says we will have soon another crisis that will make the current one looks like a picnic. – [VIDEO]

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The abrupt closing of Yahoo’s Delicious and Google Wave sends a chilling message to users:

- Beware “cloud computing”. – They hold hostage your data. Let’s go back to storing our data on our hard drive.

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Gold and Real Interest Rates

The impact of real rates on gold is becoming more widely appreciated, which in itself worries me. Part of the reason I like gold is that there is so much noise around it and few seem to understand what drives … Continue reading

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If you need to contact me…

Chris. F. Masse’s e-mail address: – chrisfmasse@gmail.com Midas Oracle: – http://www.midasoracle.org/ – @midasoracle

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Betting @ BetFair remains a mediocre-quality publication —triple alas.

I have spent some time this morning browsing it, and I am sad to report that the quality of this news website is still very low. – The navigation is crappy. For instance, clicking on the BetFair logo will bring … Continue reading

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Entrepreneurs are more born than made. – [VIDEO]

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Apples iPhone actually added $1.9 billion to the U.S. trade deficit with China last year.

Trade statistics are structurally crappy. “The concept of country of origin for manufactured goods has gradually become obsolete.” “In a speech in September in New York, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao cited that research to argue that trade tensions between the … Continue reading

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The third result for “jew” on Google Search leads to an anti-semitic website. – [VIDEO]

“jew” on Google Search.

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Steve Blank is caught red-hand browsing the NASA, Drudge Report and Google News websites instead of listening to public comment during the California Coastal Commission session. – [VIDEO]

No good.

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