PullTheTrigger

Could be affected by flooding. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroad/midwest-floods-stymie-rail-operations

Glen Ellyn, IL

Yes, the term the industry is using is "truck platooning." A small number of vehicles "linked" together with autonomous systems. There is a lead vehicle that controls all the following vehicles. Still lots of testing to do. It would likely just be a small number of vehicles (less than 10), but I'm sure they'll figure out the optimal number based on the roads, etc. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/truck_platooning/

Glen Ellyn, IL

I vote for a separate politics/philosophy board.

SpaceX's Elon Musk goes ballistic over Jeff Bezos' rocket feat http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/24/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-rocket/76317842/

Eisman is with the stripper. Bale plays Burry.

Great article about Packer! Packer, we owe you a debt of gratitude for all you've contributed on these boards!

Copy and paste link into Google web search. You should be able to read the article.

Thanks for the summary onyx1!

VIC has a new FNMA write-up today. Any VIC members willing to give a brief summary of the write-up? I'm guessing there's not much there that you can't find on timhoward17 blog, but, of course, I'm curious.

I work with an economist who shows similar data to his clients and that there is no predictive value between a bear market and recessions. His joke is that the stock market has correctly predicted 15 out of the last 10 recessions (or something to that effect).

I'm not taking sides, but wanted to post another viewpoint from an "expert." http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Richard Lindzen's scientific stance on climate change and anthropogenic global warming is that the earth goes through natural periods of global warming and cooling. According to Dr. Lindzen, the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are problematic and limited because they are based on computer models which Lindzen says are "generally recognized as experimental tools whose relation to the real world is questionable." Furthermore, he feels that the issue of global warming is completely political, and that policy makers and the media not only manipulate science but also force scientists to produce work that supports a particular agenda.

For an extremely quick read, the article, "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville" by Buffett.

One man's experience by taking a year off sugar: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-foster/no-sugar-diet_b_1397439.html?ref=tw