Friday, June 28, 2013

Friday Links

  • The above is euro-area construction.  The last month is up slightly, but it's certainly not enough to declare and end to the down-trend.
  • The spread between WTI and Brent oil prices continues to narrow (indicating that the infrastructure to bring oil from the US tight oil boom to market is catching up).
  • I guess the President has essentially confirmed my theory that Snowden was a hacker for the government.
  • NSA surveillance programs considered criminal.
  • Chinese wind power company stealing US software and ending up in court.

2 comments:

Greg said...

Stuart -- bad news about James Martin, who spoke at Iskov's GF 2045 conference. He has drowned, apparently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10146764/James-Martin.html

Stuart Staniford said...

That is bad news. I was impressed with the broad sweep of his understanding - clearly a very lively mind.