Links for 2014 09 27

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Riverdale School District Map  

SHUTTING OUT ALL THE UNDESIRABLES

Riverdale School District: Our District  

The Riverdale School District serves over 600 families living in a residential, wooded area seven miles south of downtown Portland, Oregon and adjacent to the city of Lake Oswego. (District Boundary map) 

SICK SCREWED-UP SYSTEM IN AMERICA

Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash - ProPublica  

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The Selfish Giant | New York Post  

"viewers may, like me, find the relentlessly bleak story line a heavy lift; there are virtually no moments of levity to break up the grimness, only the grinding misery — and looming hazards — of life in a dead-end factory town." 

THE LOVE OF HORSES WAS NICE, THE BUGGY RACING, BUT YEAH, BLEAK.

FBI director lashes out at Apple, Google for encrypting smartphones — RT USA  

"it will matter a great, great deal to the lives of people of all kinds that we be able to with judicial authorization gain access to a kidnapper's or a terrorist or a criminal's device," 

JUDICIAL AUTHORIZATION AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE

Alibaba Bears Emerge to Short 12.1 Million Shares - Bloomberg  

“Out of the gate we see high demand to borrow shares of Alibaba,” 

YOU CAN GET A BORROW ON BABA?

The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes - Bloomberg View  

1. You sort of knew that the regulators were more or less controlled by the banks. Now you know. 

MICHAEL LEWIS ON A ROLL

Mystery Man Who Moves Japanese Markets Made More Than 1 Million Trades - Bloomberg  

"The 35-year-old day trader says he made 6 billion yen, after taxes, betting on Japanese stocks last year." ... SO HE CLAIMS, NO AUDITED RESULTS, AS USUAL

Those are not his screens, however. No one has seen him work.   

NOT A FAN OF VERTICAL ALIGNMENT