Elon Musk: Here's How I'd Run Volkswagen If I Were Boss
• insideevs.comTesla CEO Elon Musk recently shared his advice on running Volkswagen.
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The brand new $1billion ghost city in New Mexico with enough room for 35,000 people...
• dailymail.co.uk...where NOBODY will ever live
Buffett Bets on Rail Superhighway to Win Truck Cargo
• http://www.bloomberg.comA noisy yellow machine laying down railroad track near Alva, Oklahoma -- as much as a mile a day of concrete and steel -- is Warren Buffett's solution to the industry's dwindling coal traffic.
Verizon Has Quietly Made Its Tracking 'Supercookies' a Lot More Powerful
• motherboard.vice.comVerizon, fresh off its acquisition of AOL, is using a controversial technology to combine the power of three major advertising networks using three different types of data mining to follow you around the internet more closely.
Petro-Dollar Reserve Burn Intensifies----
• davidstockmanscontracorner.comSaudi Net Foreign Assets Down $90 Billion Since Sept. 2014
The Liquidations Begin:
• Zero HedgeThree Hedge Funds Shut Down After Summer Rout
Enevate Raises $30 Million To Bring New High-Energy Batteries Into Volume Production
• insideevs.com$30 million reinforced Enevate, a battery start-up founded in 2005, on its road to launch volume production of new high-energy lithium-ion batteries with novel silicon-dominant anode.
TPP Trade Deal: Who Stands to Gain, Suffer in Asia-Pacific
• http://www.bloomberg.comThe Trans-Pacific Partnership is the biggest trade agreement in history, reducing tariffs and other forms of protectionism in a dozen countries making up about 40 percent of the global economy with economic output of almost $30 trillion.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Reached
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt NimmoNext: Obama will try to get the corporatist control plan through Congress
Internet giants race to faster mobile news apps
• yahoo.comUS tech giants are turning to the news in their competition for mobile users, developing new, faster ways to deliver content, but the benefits for struggling media outlets remain unclear.
Forget Casinos, Native Americans Are Opening the Nation's First Cannabis Resort
• True ActivistSouth Dakota - The Santee Sioux tribe of South Dakota has recently announced they will be opening the country's first Cannabis Resort, which representatives of the tribe say will be an "adult playground."
LG Chem To Build A Battery Plant In Europe
• http://insideevs.com, by Mark KaneLG Chem intends to build a lithium-ion battery plant in Europe. Until now, the European market has been supplied by LG Chem's Korean factory in Ochang, North Chungcheong Province (claimed production capacity at 200,000 "batteries").
SolarCity Announces Most Efficient Panels On The Market
• popsci.comAnd they'll be made in America
Oops! Chinese Billionaire Behind New Nicaraguan Canal Drops 90% in 3 Months
• davidstockmanscontracorner.comThe Chinese billionaire using his personal fortune to help fund a $50 billion Nicaraguan challenger to the Panama Canal has crashed into the bitter reality of equity markets in the world's second-largest economy.
Canary In The Coal Shaft-----50% Of World Production Now Unprofitable
• davidstockmanscontracorner.com
Factory Orders Hit the Skids, Last Month Revised Lower, Shipments Down 4th Time in 5 Months
• http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,On top of today's disastrous jobs report, comes still more weakness in the factory sector.
R3 Blockchain Development Initiative Grows to 22 Banks Worldwide
• Bitcoin MagazineThe international R3 blockchain project to develop blockchain commercial applications and standards for the financial world just got a whole lot weightier as 13 new global banks joined the distributed or "shared" ledger initiative.
Beyond Bitcoin: How the Blockchain Can Power a New Generation of Enterprise Software
• Bitcoin MagazineFrom a functional standpoint, the cryptocurrency has challenged the most fundamental principles of the world's financial systems by providing a decentralized, secured and trusted model to process financial transactions.
Bank of America Files Patent Application for Cryptocurrency-Mediated Wire Transfers
• Bitcoin MagazineThe application was filed in March and published on September 17 by the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office.
Drug companies are reeling after the Martin Shkreli incident --
• Business InsiderLast week, Martin Shkreli got as close to being a household name as any pharma CEO has in at least the past few decades.
Analyst: With Gigafactory, Tesla Battery Cost Will Fall Below $100 Per kWh
• insideevs.comAccording to Jefferies analyst Dan Dolev, Tesla could lower battery costs substantially by changing cell chemistry and from economies of scale that will come with the completion of the Gigafactory.
Target.com will match prices on Amazon and 28 other stores
• CNN MoneyThe retailer had excluded Target.com purchases from its policy that lets customers get a better deal if they show that someone else is selling the same item for less. Price matching was only available at stores.
Forget Glencore: This Is The Real "Systemic Risk" Among The Commodity Traders
• Zero HedgeBack in July, long before anyone was looking at Glencore (or Asia's largest commodity trader, Noble Group which we also warned last month was due for a major crash, precisely as happened overnight) ....
Is Glencore The Next Lehman?
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comThe World's Largest Commodities Trading Company Is Toast
MSR Guardian Water Purifier promises fast, safe drinking water from almost any source
• http://www.gizmag.com, Aaron HeinrichThere aren't many companies that can say they developed an outdoor water purification device specifically for use by the US military … and took six years to be sure they got it right. MSR can make that claim and more with its new Guardian Water P
What it means when gold sells at a NEGATIVE price…
• sovereignman.comNearly four months ago on June 2nd, something very unusual happened in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
This Happened In September: The UN Launched 'The Global Goals' – A Blueprint For A United Wo
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comHave you heard of "the global goals"? If you haven't heard of them by now, rest assured that you will be hearing plenty about them in the days ahead. On September 25th, the United Nations launched a set of 17 ambitious goals that it plans to
Shell Didn't Quit Alaska Out of the Goodness of Its Heart
• http://www.wired.comIn the history of Arctic expeditions, tenacity in the face of certain failure is a common theme. Almost as common is actual failure. What you don't see a lot are epic explorers--your Hensons, your Parrys, your Amundsens--packing up and going hom
Musk to Hand Over First Model X SUVs Tuesday Night Near Factory
• BloombergTesla Motors Inc., the smallest publicly held U.S. automaker, hands over the first of its Model X sport utility vehicles Tuesday evening amid growing scrutiny of Volkswagen AG, one of the world's biggest car companies, after the admission that it c
Crony Capitalism the Cause of Society's Problems
• fff.orgSince the economic downturn of 2008, the critics of capitalism have redoubled their efforts to persuade the American people and many others around the world that the system of individual freedom and free enterprise has failed.
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