Thursday, October 27, 2011

Quote of the Day: Paradigm Restriction

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From Robert Ringer , Metaphorically speaking, we are all restricted by our unique mental paradigms. It’s difficult to comprehend ideas...

Cartoon of the Day: The Greedy 1%

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From Bob Gorrell (hat tip Mark Perry)

Bank of Japan Expands QE

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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has announced an increase of their version of Quantitative Easing (QE) or central bank asset purchases. From Bloom...

Euro’s Bailout Deal: Rescue Fund Jumps to $1.4 Trillion and a 50% haircut on Greece bondholders

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From Bloomberg (bold emphasis mine) European leaders persuaded bondholders to take 50 percent losses on Greek debt and boosted the fir...

No Liquidity Trap, US Economy Picks Up Steam

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From the Wall Street Journal Blog (bold highlights mine) U.S. businesses are unsure where the economy is headed, but that has not stop...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Globalization Fuels the Africa’s Moment

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Globalization has been fueling Africa’s renascence. From the Economist , (bold emphasis mine) AFRICA has made a phenomenal leap in th...
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Quote of the Day: The Fading Religion of Global Warming

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From Michael Barone (hat tip Matt Ridley) All the trappings of religion are there. Original sin: Mankind is responsible for these prop...

Apple Jumps Into the TV Industry

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A Steve Job-less Apple won’t be inhibited from their innovative ways, they’re moving into integrating TV with their current line of products...

Poll: Occupy Wall Street versus Tea Party, Cut Between Partisan Party Lines

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Each day that passes, my theory about Occupy Wall Street as a re-election campaign strategy for President Obama has been generating more con...

Chart of the Day: The US TV Media Industry

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From Wall Stats.com For a larger view, please press on this link which should redirect you to the source page By the way here is a link...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Doing Business 2012: Philippines Ranking Down

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The World Bank in conjunction with the International Financial Corporation recently released Doing Business 2012 Doingbusiness.org attempt...

China Bails Out the Ministry of Railways

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From Forbes’ Gordon Chang , (bold emphasis mine) Last week, the powerful National Development and Reform Commission saved the country’s...

Occupy Wall Street: More Signs of President Obama’s Re-election Campaign Strategy

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From Washington Post (bold emphasis mine) Labor groups are mobilizing to provide office space, meeting rooms, photocopying services, l...

Vatican supports Occupy Wall Street

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From the Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for sweeping reforms of the world economy and the creation of a ethical, global authority...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Numerical Probabilities as Metaphorical Expressions

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In an earlier post I argued that assigning numerical probability to what has been a constantly changing environment can be a dangerous unde...

Higher Education in the Information Age

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How higher education may look like in the future From Mark Weedman (hat tip Professor Arnold Kling) A school in this Google model de...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Promises of Bailouts: How Sustainable will Positive Market Expectations Be?

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The following news account [1] from the Bloomberg on Friday’s discernible jump in the US equity markets reasonably encapsulates what has be...

Can China’s Slowdown Trigger a 1987 moment?

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A very important feature that distinguishes the epic 1987 crash from modern equity market meltdowns has been that the cataclysmic ‘1987 mome...