Tall White Mansions and Little Shacks

No good live version, so I'll embed the track from Merry Clayton's 1971 album ... a Neil Young song. 

Tweets for February 15, 2016

“The tippy top [in China] have political backing or connections. They don’t need to export the wealth.” https://t.co/e2xC8ZOUWe @JiayangFan

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 16, 2016

MT @DanGrover Finally wrote a follow-up on my Chinese Mobile UI post. https://t.co/eSHCFZhto4 | More Chinese ingenuity

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 15, 2016

RT @limlouisa Getting Money out of China by Losing in Arbitration - https://t.co/8stGm1uW8n | More Chinese ingenuity, I’d say.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 15, 2016

Tweets for February 14, 2016

“Three of the nine Justices smoke. Rehnquist smokes cigarettes, Scalia smokes cigarettes and a pipe, and Thomas favors cigars.” (from 1992)

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 14, 2016

MT @sfslim Happy birthday, Pris. pic.twitter.com/XO0Q1oLJti | Func: Military / Leisure via @EddyElfenbein

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 14, 2016

MT @PlanMaestro Chinese Forex Policy ~ under control pic.twitter.com/bViDhggfQw | You can see how I timed our ten years in China w this chart

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 14, 2016

MT @zannah The James got me this AMAZING BB-8 birthday cake, made by @bakedgirls. pic.twitter.com/TrHAkNeyjU | He’s a keeper… James, I mean.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 14, 2016

MT @RobinWigg For someone who said he liked being challenged, Scalia’s news diet was curious pic.twitter.com/3jcvSytRKN | Old white “Talk guys”

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 14, 2016

Tweets for February 13, 2016

MT @tomgara All this sound and fury when everyone knows Hillary Clinton will be president next January. | That's showbiz!

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

Maoxian > Euro Should Get Weaker From Here https://t.co/jgLgOc5f5P | $EUO $EURUSD

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

I think it's the "Locust Bean Gum" in "steve's" ice cream that gives it that gooey mouthfeel (口感) . Won't buy again....

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

MT @niubi Caixin posts an interview with PBoC head Zhou Xiaochuan. https://t.co/dOcV8aAjQK "正常情况下，国际投机者不会把中国当作攻击目标。中国经济体量大，资源多，跟中国拼，不容易挣到钱。"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

RT @ericbeebo Quick look and, yep, Moments is useless pic.twitter.com/jWVgD4D33X | 2,000 engineers. via @NickatFP

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

Nice series of charts from Jamie McGurk on industry consolidation, rise of oligopolies. Scroll through his stream: https://t.co/7JP90R610I

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

MT @LaloDagach % who say humans didn’t evolve: pic.twitter.com/ccBOQAoHt7 | I love the ‘Guided by supreme being” cop-out. via @AriCostello

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- February 15, 2016

No changes this week.  The Euro came very close to reversing, but didn't. 

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Euro Should Get Weaker From Here

Fairly obvious idiot wave pattern here ... this is EUO, the ultrashort Euro fund ... after that huge run the dollar made, things have been going sideways for about a year now ... I expect Euro weakness should re-commence from here. Maximum C target is below 1.05 on EUR/USD it looks like (just eyeballing it).

You should keep this in the back of your mind as you've done with my other recent big picture (perfect) calls on the long bond and Muzzer Russia.

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Tweets for February 12, 2016

"... the company's jet had a toilet seat emblazoned with a golden eagle, the Stanford Financial logo." https://t.co/NM7bBPu32z | How apt.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

"[Allen] Stanford sees himself competing in five years with the likes of UBS and Wachovia." -- From an Oct. 2008 Forbes profile.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 13, 2016

Overlaying the five-minute charts of $WYNN and $MGM pic.twitter.com/RHxxPDCSza

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 12, 2016

"The Chrome browser does not support NPAPI plug-ins and therefore will not run all Java content. Switch to a different browser...."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 12, 2016

In this week's issue, for the 816th time, Jim Grant rails against "the Ph.D. standard of discretionary money management."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 12, 2016

They don't sell mattresses, they sell "sleep solutions."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 12, 2016

Sun Edison $SUNE approaching $1.50 ... was over $30 last summer. Trend followers unscathed: https://t.co/bnakJ9C2Xs pic.twitter.com/Er1gjNSOaQ

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 12, 2016

Tweets for February 11, 2016

MT @CNBCnow Kroger is seeking to acquire The Fresh Market $TFM , Reuters reports. | That's another way to compete with Whole Paycheck.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

Yirendai, "Chinese marketplace for peer-to-peer loans spun out of CreditEase," never heard of it: https://t.co/rUaMwkjZSp $YRD | Ugly.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

"We’re aware of the problem and are fixing it. Thanks for your patience.
2016-02-11-69232621" ... Flickr could've been Instagram, but no.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

Cisco $CSCO reported good earnings, now trading at $24 and change. Still below $82, the high it hit nearly 16 years ago.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

Stretching down to pick up running board rag kept her young: https://t.co/lO0S3fVhbw | They don't make 'em like they used to.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

MT @nanexllc Very interesting time-line of this morning’s Yen flash crash: pic.twitter.com/PPIOsnYK25 | Nicely annotated chart, ES fairly blasé

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

MT @derekwillis My understanding is Twitter wants a potentially bigger audience over making the service work for the 300 mill. users it has?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

Crazy Russian Kids Climb Shun Hing Tower

That black dagger of a building in the background is the 京基金融中心, Kingkey (Kinky?) Finance Tower or "KK100." The Russian kids are once again taking advantage of Chinese New Year (when no one's around) to pull their stunts.  

Tweets for February 10, 2016

Nice evening to bark Swing, Touch, Turn at the boy: https://t.co/zNI11dM1C5

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

The low in Twitter $TWTR after-hours was $12.82: pic.twitter.com/RVUlQCgh1W

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 11, 2016

Surely someone can make good ice cream (no high fructose corn syrup, guar gum, carrageenan, etc.) that costs less than $11 a pint?!?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

"Darthmouth" is a funny auto-correct.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

Bernie only edged out HillBilly by 10% in Hanover (Darthmouth), Kasich won by a mile there (Trump 4th): https://t.co/qzvxmlO59U

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

05/08/10Listed for sale$795,000
01/02/11Price change$649,900
02/27/15Price change$597,000
02/10/16Pending sale$482,000
"Recovery"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

MT @JimmyDiResta To anyone on YouTube, if you get contacted like this, always ask for $25k advance, make MCNs work: pic.twitter.com/PI0YLnSG2W

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

There are a number of smart, funny Twitterers (many from England) whom I’m unable to follow because they tweet 2 much. “Nuclear Follow Cost”

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

MT @CBSPolitics More than 4out5 women aged 18-29 voted for Sanders in NH primary pic.twitter.com/HfhVfgKcuK | Steinem sez crazy for BernieBros.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

RT @Not_Jim_Cramer Bull Exodus pic.twitter.com/Z5HCPCopsq | Looks bullish to me.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

“The roots of poor math education in American public schools can usually be traced back to second or third grade” https://t.co/Y17rz1FUxf

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016

MT @ChuBailiang Ad against women being pressured to marry goes up at Beijing subway stop. pic.twitter.com/L28sYtwZf9 | 亲爱的爸爸妈妈别担心 … 单身可以很幸福

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 10, 2016