Monthly Archives: December 2010

Jim Rogers on CNBC Europe – [VIDEO]

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Tron Legacy – Music by Daft Punk – Derezzed – [VIDEO HD]

Get to watch it (live or download) in HD:

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Christo’s project over the Arkansas river in Colorado

Christo’s site. Opponents. NYT.

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Good Bloomberg stuff on GroupOn

3 videos

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Mark Zuckerberg and Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes – [VIDEO]

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Michael Lewis on the four sets of players in the subprime mortgage market who had the foresight and gumption to short the riskiest mortgage deals: Steve Eisman of FrontPoint, Greg Lippmann at Deutsche Bank, three partners at Cornwall Capital, and Michael Burry of Scion Capital – [VIDEO]

The Big Short:

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Jackson Pollock’s art is nonsense.

His art is not worth a penny. Period. This does not make any sense.

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Collective Forecasting a la Robin Hanson – [SLIDES]

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“The hacking of Google that forced the search engine to withdraw from mainland China was orchestrated by a senior member of the communist politburo, according to classified information sent by US diplomats to Hillary Clinton’s state department in Washington. The leading politician became hostile to Google after he searched his own name and found articles criticising him personally, leaked cables from the US embassy in Beijing say.”

“The politician allegedly collaborated with a second member of the politburo in an attempt to force Google to drop a link from its Chinese-language search engine to its uncensored google.com version.”

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Another great Peter Thiel interview – [AUDIO]

– BBC – Download the MP3 file

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