From the Visual Capitalist via Ritholtz’s Reads.  The Most Valuable Companies of All-Time:

From the Atlantic:

Top 25 News Photos of 2017

An article by the Business School folks at Imperial College.  In the past, wealth meant owning ‘tangible assets’.  Gold, land, cattle.  There have always been other, less tangible assets, like ‘intellectual property’, but these were usually part of a larger tangible asset arrangements (a company’s patent portfolio protecting its manufacturing, for instance).  What does it mean when the value of these intangible assets becomes large in proportion to other assets?  I am not sure.

We need to change the way we look at the economy, says Imperial professor

The Reformed Broker explains the new tax law.

Forgotten Again

I found a folder full of old clippings and things I would pin up on my office walls, back in the Old Days.  Dobbsheads, Zippy the Pinhead cartoons, early computer graphics images, Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts, stuff like that.  One quote that I ran across that is just as interesting today:

“Technology used to be scary; computers used to be seen as cold, emotionless.  Now people are realizing there’s flesh and blood in computers, and excitement and thrills, and room for all things that are human”

Jerry Garcia, 1982

From New York Magazine:

Is This the End of the NFL?

From the BBC.  I think I heard the audio of this one a few,days ago.  Oddly enough, nutmeg came up in conversations twice this afternoon.

The Tiny Island the British Traded for Manhattan

Banda Run is a place where history meets legend, where traditional ships still sail past live volcanoes to a forgotten island that once changed the world.