December 13, 2006– I remember a King of the Hill Episode (an American TV show) where the main character asks his Laotian neighbor, “Are you Japanese or Chinese?” The neighbor answers, “Laotian”, to which the Caucasian character immediately replies, “So….

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…

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 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,…