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A rave review for Laurus in the LA Review of Books. Excerpt:

An exact replica of the Titanic is currently being built and has been scheduled to set sail in 2018, recreating the infamous ill-fated trans-Atlantic crossing of the original.  The Titanic II is expected to sail from Jiangsu, China to Dubai in 2018. The ship will measure 280 meters long and 52 meters high, with nine floors and 840 cabins that will carry 2,400 passengers and 900 crew member on board. Dailysabah.com reports: The man behind the project Australian billionaire and real estate magnate Clive Palmer had announced his plan in 2012 but had been postponed.

Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,

Part 1 here...

Pope Francis has sent over 1,000 priests on a global mission to forgive humanity for grave sins that normally only he on senior Church officials may pardon.  The army of super-priests, or super-confessors, are part of a ‘Missionaries of Mercy’ group who have been given a special license for the Vatican’s Jubilee year. BBC News reports: Grave sins include defiling consecrated bread and wine, violating confessional secrecy, and plotting to kill a pope. Pope Francis has often said the Church needs to be less rigid and judgemental.

UBS' chief global credit strategist Matthew Mish has been on a roll lately. After first revealing "how the investment grade dominos will fall" in mid January (an analysis which was followed by another leg lower in IG bond prices), and then two weeks later instead of focusing on products, Mish analyzed sectors and explained "What's The Next 'Energy' Sector In Credit Markets", today he tries to put it all together and as he himself puts it, "the inquiries we have received are increasingly from investors across all asset classes and regions, and lines of questioning evolve in many directions.