Global Financial System Showing Danger Signs

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I won’t get in to all of the potentially destabilizing geopolitics around the globe today. There are too many to list. But, we’re entering undiscovered country here.

Joe Kennedy exited the stock market in timely fashion after a shoeshine boy gave him some stock tips. He figured that when the shoeshine boys have tips, the market is too popular for its own good.

Will we ever learn?

Nine years of emergency money has had a string of perverse effects and lured emerging markets into debt dependency, without addressing the structural causes of the global disorder.

via ‘Perfect storm’: Global financial system showing danger signs, says senior OECD economist

Sweet Berry Wine!

I don’t know if it’s art, but I know what I hate. And I don’t hate this.

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In the words of Dr. Steve Brule, “Wine was invented by the Romans, for orgies. But orgies aren’t too much fun when no one wants to do it with you.”

Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe not as scandalous, or even secret, but as a bold, unconventional lifestyle choice.

“Incidentally, thank you for not making fun of my genitalia.”

via “Oh My God, This Is So F—ed Up”: Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side | Vanity Fair