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A friend of mine keeps forwarding me the weekly John Mauldin email as he thinks the guy is really sharp. Any ideas on what I can say to my friend to wake him up? Anybody know what his major was at Rice (a BA)? Is there a better subreddit for these questions?

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out — What makes early-stage Internet start-ups successful? Max Marmer, teenager and Stanford dropout, has mapped the "Silicon Valley innovation genome," which aims to tell us. Summary with a link to the full paper

Yuan at record high versus dollar

India’s stingy definition of poverty irks critics News

Belarus Central Bank Lifts Interest Rate 200bps to 16.00%

Usually more growth begets more inflation. But ironically, fiscal austerity and higher taxes are boosting inflation in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.

Shelling Out – The Origins of Money

"If your objective is to leave in place these exceptionally low tax rates for the most fortunate Americans, then you are going to have to dismantle the basic commitments to our seniors, to the poor and to the elderly." Tim Geithner.

Soft options in Greece are over as debt crisis escalates to existential level

Home ownership expected to drop below 1998 levels and continue a downward spiral

China’s Economy Slows, but Inflation Still Looms

Economic Calendar: Here comes June and the PMIs

My friend thinks John Mauldin is great – can I help him somehow?

What’s it worth to you? Part 2

Forget speculators, index funds could be real culprit behind the commodity price surge

Why India is less vulnerable to the risks of malinvestment and on sounder footing for a long boom

Central Bank of Russia Raises Overnight Deposit Rate 25bps to 3.50%

OECD Better Life Index, How the countries match up against a variety of categories

Your Commute Is Killing You — People with long journey times suffer disproportionate pain, stress, obesity, dissatisfaction. So why do we do it? Often it’s to get a bigger home for our money. But we fail to take the cost of our time spent commuting into account

Utah’s Gold & Legal Tender Laws

Driverless Cars & Over-Regulation

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