Kashmir – Ah Kashmir
“If there is a Heaven on earth, It is here, It is here, It is here” – Jehangir. Rarely have truer words been spoken. The heavenly va...
Month: October 2008
Dylan Ratigan of CNBC – He Doth Protest Too Much
Dylan Ratigan, the anchor of Fast Money and more CNBC shows than we can keep track of, has been a temperate, thoughtful reporter who takes pains to show a ...
What Warren Buffet Wrote and How CNBC “Spun” It?
Editor’s Note: It is our belief that all financial networks share the biases we describe in this article. We mention CNBC specifically because it is the l...
Pakistan’s Minister Concurs With CinemaRasik?
The American Television and Print Media have portrayed the Taliban as a group of militants operating in the mountainous area on the border of Pakistan and ...
This Blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles
This is our monthly update of our list of 10 Most Popular Articles (in terms of viewer hits) as of Friday, October 10, 2008. 1. Shabana Azm...
VIX – Virtual Invitation to eXtinction?
Editor’s Note: This article describes our surmise of what might have precipitated the waterfall declines in the S&P 500 index this month. Putting it p...
Investor Biases, Financial TV Coverage and Large Money Manager Agendas
Editor’s Note: It is our belief that all financial networks share the biases we describe in this article. We mention CNBC specifically because it is the l...
Are Euorpean and Asian Banks In Trouble Because They Did Not Buy US Treasuries?
No. We are not obsessed with US Treasuries though we can understand why some readers might feel so. Our original title was going to be along the lines of ...
Mo-Force is On Board the Deflation Wagon – Time for Mr. Bernanke to Cut Interest Rates
On August 2, 2008, we wrote an article titled “Jim Cramer on Ben Bernanke – Fair in August 2007 and Unfair in August 2008 – (https://cinemaras...
Are The Wheels Coming Off Global Growth? – Dubai and China
Over the past few years, Dubai and China have captured media’s imagination as glorious examples of global growth, the birth of a new era in which these re...