Saturday, June 25, 2011

Mark Twain and China’s Yuan

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The brilliant nanotech investor and analyst Josh Wolfe of Forbes offers three invaluable investment insights premised on the maxims of liter...

Revolving Door Syndrome: European Central Bank’s New Head was Goldman Sach’s Honcho

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It has been a revolving door affair between the banking industry, particularly the ‘Too Big to Fail’ cabal, and the government/central bank...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Europe’s Financial Repression: How Solvency II may affect Portfolio Allocations of Insurance Firms

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Governments around the world have been applying financial repression—part of which is to use new regulations to force financial institutions...

Video: Christien Meindertsma on the Economic Value of Pigs

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Here is a fascinating talk by Ms. Christien Meindertsma on TED, about the economic value of Pigs. I mean the animal (oink oink) variety and ...

Central Planning in Education Fails

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Central planning even in education doesn’t work. Take a look at Japan’s PhD’s experience From Nature.com (hat tip: Prof Arnold Kling) [bo...

War on Commodities: IEA Intervenes by Releasing Oil Reserves

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Ever since May 2011, a tactical multi-pronged assault on the commodity markets has been in operation. From drastically raising of credit mar...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Bank of Japan’s Interventions in Japan’s Stock Markets

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Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), through her version of quantitative easing program, has been bidding up her local local stock...

Financial Success is a Function of Common Sense and Self Discipline

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Some have this misbegotten notion/belief that attaining wealth and fame translates to a state of permanence. Well it’s not. This should ...

Ben Bernanke Admits to the Knowledge Problem

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“ We don’t have a precise read on why this slower pace of growth is persisting ,” the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Wednesday at a ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Paradigm Shift: Brazil, Indians and Chinese Invest in Overseas Properties

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Past performance do not guarantee future results. Many of today’s international property investors have not hailed from the West, but rath...

Greeks Go For Gold

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Ah, paper money versus gold. When the public lose trust on the highly flawed system that had been imposed on them, they revert back to the...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

US Government’s War on US Expats and American Investments Overseas

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I have been saying that the US government has increasingly been intruding in the marketplace or applying financial repression for implicit p...

Markets in Everything: China’s Village Specializes in Breeding Snakes

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Markets emerge when people discover economic value in specific goods or services. In China, cuisine and medicinal demand for snakes has le...

Belgian Central Bank ‘Lends’ 41% of Gold Reserves, Growing Role of Gold as Money

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Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge points to CLSA’s Chris Wood’s report noting that the Belgian Central Bank has lent out 41% of its gold reserves...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Philippine Banking System: “Most Heavily Fortified Bastion of Privilege and Profit”

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The unholy trinity of banking-central banking and government patronage system operates even in the Philippines as well. From Joe Studwell ...
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The Coming Global Government Debt Default Binge

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From the Wall Street Journal blog : The biggest risk, however, isn’t Greece per se. It is the prospect of other peripheral euro members...

Jose Rizal’s Libertarian Roots

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In commemoration of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s 150 th birthday , below is an excerpt of an article depicting Jose Rizal’s libe...

Glenn Beck Endorses Ron Paul for President in 2012

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Consolidating Phisix and Global Equity Markets

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Given the length of a project's life, a decline in the discount rate pumps up the present value of a capital project. An artificially lo...