http://blogs.barrons.com/incomeinvesting/2014/05/23/barclays-downgrades-electric-utility-bonds-sees-viable-solar-competition/
*Barclays* this week downgrades the entire electric sector of the U.S. high-grade corporate bond market to underweight, saying it sees long-term challenges to electric utilities from solar energy, and that the electric sector of the bond market isn’t pricing in these challenges right now. It’s a noteworthy downgrade since electric utilities which make up nearly 7.5% of Barclays’ U.S. Corporate Index by market value. -- rec -- On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:32 AM, John Balwit <bal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Satire is tricky. For it to be effective it must be subtle but if it > becomes too subtle it begins to merge with the "straight news” news of > which it is a parody. > I wonder if there is an etymological connection between the word “parody” > and “paradox”? > > I like the Solar Panel article because I was initial “taken in” (that is > assumed it was a real piece of right wing propaganda) but on a second > reading all the funny little “tricks” that they identified/employed just > made be bust a gut. > > The article also highlighted for me the necessary steps of due diligence > that are required in our relatively new Internet information environment. > It is so easy to uncritically digest things that accord with our own > beliefs. Unfortunately, the stake for gullibility are quite high. > I think that satire like the National Report, The Onion, and perhaps even > Fox News (!?) may ultimately serve a valuable role in public education. > > John Balwit > > > > On May 26, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > > Clickbait, given the window dressing on the "National Report" website. > It's not being taken seriously except for its ability to drag eyes to the > page and feed them onto other pages designed to tax the credulous. > > So, not much in the news because it's out south of Cabo and unlikely to > reach shore, Amanda is the strongest May hurricane seen in the East Pacific > since we began watching with satellites. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ > > -- rec -- > > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net > > wrote: > >> So Pamela; how did it get from FB to the Wyoming (Dick Cheney?) >> institute of Physics Research. I still don’t get it? Too paranoid to be >> laughing, yet. >> >> >> >> N >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Pamela >> McCorduck >> *Sent:* Monday, May 26, 2014 10:09 AM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Solar Panels Drain the Sun's Energy, Experts Say >> | National Report >> >> >> >> A couple of scientists I know posted this on FB, never DREAMING anyone >> would take it seriously. Guess what. >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 26, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Oh boy. Are we in trouble now! >> >> http://nationalreport.net/solar-panels-drain-suns-energy-experts-say/ >> >> =================================== >> Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism >> Santa Fe, NM >> t...@jtjohnson.com. 505-473-9646 >> =================================== >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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