Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

CNN is reporting that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran defended “his government’s relationship with the country’s supreme leader on Friday, disputing charges of a political rift.”
Readers of this blog know what that means.

LMF Theory holds that, if a politician makes a public statement, then one should invest in firms and commodities that would benefit from [...]

WLWT.com reports on a teacher in Kentucky, USA, who is charged with having sex with a pupil, whom she claims not to know.

After hearing rumors about her alleged tryst, the accused “went to the police station to take a polygraph test, but instead was arrested, and within days she was suspended and fired.”
According to the [...]

The American Physical Society reports at Physics Central, “A device that gleans usable energy from the mixing of salty and fresh waters has been developed by University of Milan-Bicocca physicist Doriano Brogioli. If scaled up, the technology could potentially power coastal homes.”
The article describes a proof-of-concept, and it is not a product announcement. Still, [...]

CFO magazine reports, “As financial markets embrace the idea that economic recovery is drawing near, CFOs are not as infused with optimism — indeed, many are downright skeptical that better times are right around the corner.”
Whether the individuals who play the CFO Prediction Market or traders of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker: SPY) are [...]

The Guardian reports, “A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that can solve complex mathematical problems faster than anything made from silicon.”
According to the article, such a computer should grow more powerful over time, as the bacteria multiply.
Meanwhile, Technology Review reports, “By adding fluorescent dyes to DNA and then spinning the DNA strands into [...]

It took them a half-year, but the mainstream media (MSM) is finally addressing the impending US brain drain.
MSNBC reports, “The departure of top talent in technology and science may… undercut the prospects for a recovery in the [USA].”
The article’s author, Moira Herbst, states, “The Obama Administration has said it will push for comprehensive immigration reform [...]

Someone at the Associated Press (AP) has been reading this blog.
Yahoo! News is running a story by Calvin Woodward and Jim Kuhnhenn, titled “FACT CHECK: Obama’s Health Care Claims Adrift?”
Click on the link. They tell the story better than any summary that I could post. It is a classic example of LMF Theory [...]

One of the basic definitions in macroeconomics employed by Keynesian economists is:
(1)  Y = C + I + G + Ex - Im, where

Y:  Gross Domestic Product
C:  Consumption
I:  Investment
G:  Government Spending
Im: Imports
Ex: Exports

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a measure of the national income. If any of the factors on the right side of the equals sign, other than Imports, increases — [...]

David Pogue posted to the New York Times about Amazon.com’s deletion of copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four from users’ Kindle™ readers.
boo.
hoo.
If you are going to buy a piece of consumer electronics that gives someone else the power to dictate what you are allowed to read and for how long, you deserve to get your library deleted. [...]

Slashdot reports, “The US Department of Defense, which has been flirting with open source for years as a way to improve software quality and cut costs, has finally burst the dam on Defense-related open-source adoption with Forge.mil, an open-source code repository based on Sourceforge.”
Meanwhile, Government Computer News reports “USPS goes open-source with tracking system.”
According to [...]