In hindsight, there’s a certain narrative arc to these three articles about hedging gold.
8/4: “Why you should consider hedging if you own gold”
8/23: “Gold Goes Parabolic, Hedging Costs Rise”
9/23: “Gold Gets Hammered“

Looking back at an optimal put hedge on GLD
In Tim Knight’s after the close wrap-up video Thursday (“Fire, Walk With Me“), he noted how precious metals had fallen out of bed recently. Below is a look at what happened with an optimal put hedge on the gold-tracking ETF GLD Thursday. Then, [...]

The first outpost of Naked Pizza opened in New York City last night. I’d been interested in trying it since I read this article about it by Rob Walker in the New York Times Magazine a couple of years ago, so we headed over last night and picked up a Superbiotic pie and some bread [...]

Regretsy updated its “The Mother of all 9/11 Posts” for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Before clicking you may want to read this intro of the post which describes what’s to come:
To commemorate the 9th anniversary of what I like to call “The Unpleasantness”, I’m going to subject you to an extensive, handpicked assortment of [...]

After the first attack in 1993, the World Trade Center instituted some elaborate security measures. For example, all visitors were given laminated photo IDs after checking in, that they were required to show to the guards at the relevant elevator banks. Security tightened at all office buildings in New York after 9/11, and more buildings [...]

Downtown Douala, Cameroon

After reading that Cameroon was home to one of the world’s least livable cities (Douala), I figured there was no reason anyone would want to visit Cameroon. But this FT article over the weekend by Stephen Cave offered one, “Of man and beast“. From the article:

Many of the other problems [autoimmune diseases, diabetes, [...]

Revenues, apparently.  Remember Color, the mobile app that received $41 million in venture financing a few months ago?

I have AppShopper’s top-200 grossing finance app rankings bookmarked (and was pleasantly surprised to see Portfolio Armor crack into the top-5 on Thursday), but after being reminded about Color by a chapter about it (“Color and [...]