Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on June 26th, 2012

The price of poker just went up in Spain. Tell me why Italy, Greek, Portuguese and Irish banks aren’t rated the same. Toss in France while you are at it.

Cyprus seeks a bail out. Me too.

The ice caps? They aren’t melting. Global warming is junk science. I am so glad they gave Al Gore an Oscar. Because it was indeed a great act. It sure wasn’t based on facts.

Japan voting on a consumption tax.

Jesse Jackson Jr taking medical leave, but we don’t know what for.

Campaign to bring Barack Obama’s Presidential Library runs into a little opposition. If it’s in Chicago, they ought to build it on a golf course.

In Chicago, the city regulations stop food trucks which are popular. Now they are going to liberalize them. ” a new provision that would allow vendors of prepackaged food the freedom to do some assembly on board, such as putting mustard on a hot dog or squirting salsa on a taco”

Shareholders can cause too big to fail to go away.

A little corporate collusion. Good thing the internet is there. Great truth detector.

A wartime seder in Paris. 1919. My supposition is that many of them crossed the ocean as immigrants not too long before this, or at least their families did.

Is the country unraveling?

Internalization, payment for order flow, dark pools use HFT to steal, instead of taking risk. In futures they sniff out stops, and run them, and front run because they see the book before anyone else. Co-location and speed allows that.

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