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...
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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...
Pakistan – Beginning of the End Game?
The events in Pakistan-Afghanistan are taking center stage on the world scene again. The condition of Pakistan was a topic of heated discussion in the debate be...
India – A Strategic Security Partner to the USA in the Persian Gulf
Two weeks ago, we wrote an article about the emerging strategic partnership between the USA and India driven by mutually congruent interests. This is what...
China & India – “Are we deceiving ourselves again?” – Forthcoming book by Arun Shourie
We began writing about the potential for conflict between China and India in June 2008. The trigger for us was extraordinarily naive and frankly, ignorant...
Lessons from England’s Legacy – Differences Between Lincoln’s America, Nehru’s India and Mao-Zhou’s China
America, China and India, three enormous countries, were, at one time or other, controlled or dominated by England. Each of these three countries inherited a le...
Did the Average American Create the Housing Mess?
On Friday, September 19, the top news story was the massive “bailout” plan proposed by the Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson. Every Television Ancho...