December 12, 2006 – Back on October 23rd, I blogged about not liking the excessive risk inherent in many Chinese banks. Instead, I looked to India for much better managed banks with high potential growth in seeking investment opportunities in…
Year: 2006
December 12, 2006 – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammed Yunus, is worth writing about because he gave the world a model through his concept of microcredit and his founding of Grameen Bank to transform a group of people,…
December 11, 2006 – I read a statistic the other day that the ten largest investment firms in the world, on any given day, control anywhere from 50% to 70% of the market volume on the New York Stock Exchange,…
Q: Who’s Right in the Mark Cuban/ David Stern NBA Feud? Time once again for our non-investment Friday blog. For those not familiar with my Friday blog, every Friday, I essentially blog about non-investment related topics, often business related in…
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December 8, 2006 – Here’s a short casual Friday post. As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, all toy stores will suffer a shortage of the most popular toys that your children will have asked for come Christmas, Chanukah,…
December 7, 2006 – I must pre-qualify this blog entry as I’m writing it from a café, that unlike previous blogs about the direction of the U.S. dollar, I have not looked at any technical charts regarding the current weakness…
December 7, 2006 – This blog entry is kind of a part II to my post about global warming opening up new shipping lanes in the Arctic Circle. Wang Shuguang, Director of the State Oceanography Bureau, in China recently stated:…
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December 4, 2006 – This month, Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, spoke at the Fourth Conference of the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, he noted that, “In informal terms,…
December 2, 2006 – I’m sure that everyone who reads this, at some point and time, has been fed up with bank fees and paltry interest rates on savings accounts. The number one complaint I’ve always heard about banks is…
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November 30, 2006 – Time for the casual Friday blog again. This past week was the late great Bruce Lee’s birthday so I’m paying tribute to Bruce this Friday. Last November, Bosnia unveiled a lifesize bronzed likeness of martial arts…