A sense of deja vu pervaded the world this week. It felt as if we were reliving the 1970-1980 Cold War. The serene calm of 21st century Europe was suddenly invaded by old realpolitik. No one should be surprised. The reality is that humans have not changed since our species was born and most probably…
Editor’s Note: This is a revised version of a previous article. It retains the central point we wanted to make and eliminates the secondary points from the previous version. Hopefully, the version below is more focused and to our point. Fast food is simple, isn’t it? When we go to any fast food place, we…
For decades, Hindus have been attacked, cleansed out, killed for simply being Hindus. Regimes that call themselves as land of the “spiritually pure” have tolerated and encouraged pogroms of Hindus. Literally millions of Hindus have been cleansed out of NonPakistan & Bangladesh. Yet, the American media has paid no attention. Reporters of the New York…
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…
Editor’s Note: This is NOT an investment article. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about social issues involving fair levels of taxation on wealth produced on the backs of users. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
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…
Editor’s Note: At the beginning of each year, we try to write an outlook article. Our 2011 outlook article discussed the demographic change in America and its impact on presidential elections. Our points about America becoming a country ripe for distributional politics proved to be valid in the 2012 Presidential Election. Our outlook piece for…
Below are the 10 most popular articles of calendar year 2013: 1. Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 13 – August 17, 2012) – August 18, 2012 2. Tajikistan Cedes Land to China – A Step Towards Af-Kash-Bet? – January 15, 2011 3. Attock – If you have not heard of Attock, Read this Article – August 9, 2008 4. The…
Our education is Mathematics, our vocation is Global Macro and our passion is Cinema. Pattern recognition is common to these three disciplines, an eye to see a similar pattern in visibly different things. Back in May 2008 we wrote an article in another forum titled Is Barack Obama a mirror image of George W. Bush?…
The idea behind our awards is simple. We appreciate experts who come on Financial Television and provide actionable investment recommendations to individual investors. While individual stock ideas are fine, our preference is to look for advice that is broad and easily followed. And we love it when the advice makes investors money, ideally lots of…