Facebook Wants You To Know That Zuckerberg's 99% Initiative Is Not A Charity
• fastcompany.comThe company is going out of its way to make the point, which is raising questions about the exact nature of the new initiative.
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Crude Tumbles As Inventories Surge For 10th Week In A Row And Production Rises Despite Demand Drop
• Zero HedgeConfirming last night's API report, DOE reports that total crude inventories rose for the 10th week in a row (up by 1.177mm barrels)
10 Biggest Wall St. Banks Now Facing Legal Action for Price Fixing $320 Trillion Derivative Market
• thefreethoughtproject.comA class action lawsuit, filed last week, accuses two trading platforms and ten of Wall Street's largest megabanks of conspiring to stifle competition in the $320 trillion dollar derivatives market for interest rate swaps.
Here's where each of the 12 OPEC members stand ahead of this week's meeting
• Business InsiderOPEC, the 12-member oil cartel, is meeting once again to discuss their game plan for production on Friday in Vienna.
The Biggest Problem For Europe's Small Businesses: "Finding Customers"
• Zero HedgeThree weeks ago, some were surprised to learn that after a blockbuster September, new RMB loans in China fell off a cliff in October, coming in at just CNY514 billion against consensus of CNY800 billion.
10 Biggest Wall St. Banks Now Facing Legal Action for Price Fixing $320 Trillion Derivative Market
• thefreethoughtproject.comA class action lawsuit, filed last week, accuses two trading platforms and ten of Wall Street's largest megabanks of conspiring to stifle competition in the $320 trillion dollar derivatives market for interest rate swaps.
?Why Do Former Goldman Sachs Bankers Keep Landing Top Slots at the Federal Reserve?
• chrisinmaryville.netI will note this again because it should be noted again and again. Goldman Sachs should be dead. Door nail. Kaput. Finito. Gone. A piece of history. Expired.
Wall Street's getting crushed by a form of financial engineering you've probably never heard
• Business InsiderOn August 6, billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman took the unusual step of dialing into an earnings call for one of his fund's holdings and asking a question.
Goldman Sachs is over millennials --
• Business Insider-it's time to talk about the larger, and more influential, Gen-Z
Chinese Auto Sales Crash, Inventories Soar In November
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenDespite ongoing exuberance at auto sales in America (which disappointed) - as crashing credit standards enable every Tom, Dick, and Muppet to buy too much 'depreciating asset' for their incomes - there are numerous problems few are talking about for
The Workplace Will Be Radically Different By 2025; Are You Ready?
• http://www.forbes.com, Elaine PofeldtWork, as we know it, has changed dramatically in the past few years. Many Americans are frustrated and confused about the smartest way to get in front of what is happening.
Israeli surveillance balloon guarding Paris climate summit
• jpost.comAn Israeli-made surveillance balloon is being used by the Paris municipal police to help guard the global climate change summit currently underway in Paris.
Bill Gates launches multi-billion dollar clean energy fund
• cnn.comBill Gates has pulled together a multinational band of investors to put billions into clean energy.
These 6 American stocks can handle the stronger dollar and higher rates
• cnn.comThe U.S. dollar is on steroids, and it's not getting off them any time soon.
Do You Remember When Black Friday Actually Still Mattered In America?
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comOnce upon a time, "Black Friday" was a major event in the United States.
Passports Required For Domestic Travel In 2016, But IRS Can Revoke Passports For Taxes
• forbes.comPassports Required For Domestic Travel In 2016, But IRS Can Revoke Passports For Taxes
Amazon Shows Off New Delivery Drones With 'Top Gear's' Clarkson
• popsci.comNew hybrid drone has 15-mile range and will be first in a new family of drones
Retail stocks are in the red, except ...
• CNN MoneyShoppers may be out in full force this Black Friday. But there aren't enough Star Wars toys, 4K TVs, PlayStation 4s and Beats headphones on the planet to push most major retail stocks into the black anytime soon.
Black Friday crowds thin in subdued start to U.S. holiday shopping
• Yahoo NewsCrowds were thin at U.S. stores and shopping malls in the early hours of Black Friday and on Thanksgiving evening as shoppers responded to early holiday discounts with caution and bad weather hurt turnout.
The single biggest way shoppers are manipulated by retailers
• Business InsiderIt's Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when Americans take a brief respite from stuffing their faces with turkey to stampede into stores in an effort to take advantage of what appear to be great deals.
Online Sales Surge Ahead of Brick-and-Mortar Retailers' Big Day
• BloombergU.S. e-commerce sales surged on Thanksgiving, raising questions about how many shoppers will show up for brick-and-mortar promotions on Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday season.
The Triumph Of Materialism:
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comThe Average American Will Spend 830 Dollars On Christmas In 2015
The VW "Fix" Just Got a Lot More Expensive
• LewRockwellBetter hide your diesel VW.
Scientists produce graphene 100 times cheaper than ever before
• gizmag.comSince first being synthesized by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov at the University of Manchester in 2004, there has been an extensive effort to exploit the extraordinary properties of graphene.
Turkey:
• endoftheamericandream.comThe Country ISIS Uses As A Home Base And Where It Has Sold 800 Millions Dollars Of Oil
Publicity for Start-ups Course
Michael BelfioreThis is the kind of engagement--a mutually beneficial give and take with media outlets--that results in great publicity for your products, and that in turn brings you more sales and greater investment.
Pfizer and Allergan to Combine With Joint Value of $160 Billion
• bloomberg.comPrice is 27% premium to Allergan shares before talks public Read to be CEO, Saunders to be president of new Pfizer Plc
Leapfrogging to Solar: Emerging Markets Outspend Rich Countries for the First Time
• bloomberg.comChina alone is adding more renewables than the U.S., U.K., and France combined.
AMA calls for ban on drug ads as skyrocketing medical costs push Americans ...
• Natural NewsThe medical-industrial complex is in big trouble.
Global Trade Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates Plummet 70% In 3 Weeks
• Zero HedgeThis market is looking like a disaster and the rates are a reflection of that," warns one of the world's largest shipbrokers, but while The Baltic Dry Freight Index gets all the headlines - having collapsed to all-time record lows this week-
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