Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed

I had this sent to me in email, so if anyone knows who created it so I can give proper credit, let me know.

[Update] The source is apparently this.

I was briefly short Swiss Francs via FXF puts back in August, so I missed today’s fun, but made a little money. Check out, however, how epic the moves are in FXF puts today. Incredible stuff on the SNB’s moves to devalue/lock the franc exchange. 1,515%. Beat that.

Good report.

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My friends at Foundry Group. Beyond words, in a hilarious, middle-aged-VCs-in-Boulder-rapping sense. This is just so good.

• 'People Don't Realize How Fragile Democracy Really Is' http://t.co/AFoXD96 ->
• Good new Euro break-up consequences report – http://t.co/XkgIJPA /via @zerohedge ->
• Belay last tweet. It's raining here, but latter part of tweet was errant paste. ->
• Roger Federer playing tonight at US Open like he's double-parked: 6 minutes, 3 games up. ->
• John Markoff on bike accident (his own) reconstruction via GPS – http://t.co/1OjiWYJ ->

• As Sports Medicine Surges, Hope and Hype Outpace Proven Treatments http://t.co/T7tsNz5 ->
• A thin orange line: The India-Pakistan border from space – http://t.co/vmKUkmR ->
• Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why energy from waste schemes don't work – http://t.co/WSxFsiG ->
• The Yips in Golf: Multimodal Evidence for Two Subtypes http://t.co/zhSjeqe ->
• Fantastic photo set from The Atlantic showing WWII North Africa campaign – http://t.co/TVIDOlK ->
• Workers Play Cards at Idle Indian Factories – http://t.co/8Gtv8Se ->
• The sources for the biggest SoCal wildfires display a curious cross-section of regional life in the new millennium – http://t.co/eEpOOmt ->
• Med-geeky, but … An Analytical Model of Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis Linking Cellular Energetics and Host Vasculature http://t.co/YHGxxjO ->
• Bob Dylan and George Harrison playing tennis in 1969 – http://t.co/3YubK48 ->

Yale’s Robert Shiller in an interview worth listening to on the outlook.

DENSITY isn’t a magic elixir. One can’t create wealth just by crowding people together; otherwise the super-dense metropolitan areas in emerging Asian countries would be richer than American cities. Density simply facilitates interaction. Interactions translate into wealth when a population is educated and local institutions support private enterprise and entrepreneurship.

via One Path to Better Jobs – More Density in Cities – NYTimes.com.

• IPads Soon to Be Pricier Than Large-Screen Televisions: Chart of the Day – Bloomberg (Source)
• Citigroup Sees U.S. Market Liquidity Drying Up: Chart of the Day – Bloomberg (Source)
• ScienceDirect – Technological Forecasting and Social Change : How many singularities are near and how will they disrupt human history? (Source)
• [1109.0214] Complexity (Source)
• Universal laws and economic phenomena – Gerig – 2011 – Complexity – Wiley Online Library (Source)
• The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities (Source)
• Five Differences Between Ecological and Economic Networks (Source)
• Fertilizing Nature: A Tragedy of Excess in the Commons (Source)
• The God Clause and the Reinsurance Industry – BusinessWeek (Source)
• One Path to Better Jobs – More Density in Cities – NYTimes.com (Source)
• Hotel guestroom technology trends (Source)
• Shadow sovereign ratings of the 56 unrated countries around the world (Source)
• The $500-billion slow-motion European bank run (Source)
• Pettis: Spain out of euro, Germany to negative GDP growth, BRICs get whacked, etc. (Source)