Every year Bloomberg puts out a list of the best articles not published by Bloomberg.  Some good reading here:

Jealousy List 2017

The rain let up and we were able to get the fire pit going.  It was still cold.  Good thing I had a warm sweater.

Was wondering about slave rebellions is the US.  I knew about Nat Turner’s Rebellion, but I found this in Wiki.  Over 250 incidents, but not really noted until 1940.  I wonder how this connects to the (white) gun culture in the south.

Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten or more slaves. Three of the best known in the United States during the 19th century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

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