Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Remember Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011? That was such a heady time for Egypt and for the true believers. Tom Friedman was ecstatic, Anderson Cooper was elated and the New York Times was even more sure of its belief system. The movement that had begun in Tunisia and spread to Egypt was hailed in…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Just like last week, these are my personal reflections about the 2012 Democratic convention. My education is Mathematics, my training is Global Macro and my passion is Cinema. Success in all three comes from a sense of pattern recognition, the eye to see things differently. I have yet to achieve any success in any of…
What do you think when you hear or read the word Swastik? You immediately think about Nazi Germany. Why? Because you have been told that the Swastik is a Nazi Symbol. You are not alone. The world has been told that so often and so repeatedly that it borders on brainwashing. We read this terminology…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
These are personal reflections, actually my visceral reactions to the political drama unfolding in this election. To me this election seems so 1992. I felt this when I saw the sheer burst of excitement that erupted within Republicans when Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate. Elections to me are about what you…
Two or three decades ago, American multinationals made it a practice to appoint British executives to run their Indian subsidiaries. American executives didn’t know better. The only thing they knew about India was that British used to rule there. The British executives for the most part came in to India laden with their own colonial…
On July 21, 2012 we wrote an article titled Birth of a Caste in America? . In that article we argued that the affluent college-educated class in America is turning into an elite caste. We stated our conclusion with the following: “The culmination of this ‘high education’ class into a caste was neither described by…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…