Some speculation about why the IOC crew seemed so pleased with Wahoo
A discussion about the nature of the siege of NQ Mobile
The Bank of Japan will have to mop up the entire issuance of public debt for years to come, covering the budget deficit with printed money
The extraordinarily bold economic experiment in Japan
Even playing with 13 (the public and the referee), Brazil didn’t really impress me, apart from Oscar. The Croats will be looking for a decent keeper..
And of course, there is a host of remarkable stories here, like:
There’s an industrial boom underway in Louisiana, thanks, in part, to a rise in fracking. A massive new plant under construction in Lake Charles is expected to create 7,000 jobs at the peak of construction, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. South African state-oil company Sasol is pumping $21 billion into the 3,034-acre complex in what could be the largest foreign investment in U.S. history, according to the Journal.