We have been old fans of Rick Santelli, the veteran trader-reporter who covers the bond markets for CNBC. Our nick name for him is “The REF”. When Rick speaks, CNBC viewers listen. So, (to hark back to an old commercial) he is Rick EF Hutton, Santelli; in short, Rick EF Santelli or simply the REF. Does this…
Usually, the anchor of a Television show has a consistent personality and a set of views that establishes his brand. That is especially true of CNBC anchors. But, then Dylan Ratigan of CNBC’s “Fast Money” is no ordinary anchor. He changes his views, his mission, his personality and recasts himself as no other anchor can. When…
We tend to write about CNBC because we believe that the vast majority of our readers are investors and regularly watch CNBC. We receive comments from our readers about our CNBC related articles and some of these articles have made it to our blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles List. The single best comment was from…
There have been a few changes to the top 10 list since our last update on January 10, 2009: A new entry – the article “125th Anniversary of Manhattan’s Brooklyn Bridge – Celebration Bollywood Style” has joined the list in the No. 10 spot. The previous No 2 article “India & Greece – A long, deep…
The Ruug-Ved (also written as RigVed, or RigVeda) is widely recognized as the oldest text of Sanskrut, which makes it the oldest text of any Indo-European language. The Ruug-Ved is one of the four Ved (“body of knowledge”), the earliest expositions of Indian Thought. Based on various disciplines of astronomy, linguistics among others, the Ruug-Ved was compiled…
Editor’s Note: The correct pronunciation of the practice of the popular discipline is “Yog” and not Yoga as it is called in America and the rest of the world. To see the difference in the effect, we ask every reader to say yoga and then say Yog by spending more of the breathing energy on…
Indian Society of today, as it has through the ages, reflects the virtues and vices of Indian Religion. We begin a new series that looks analytically at Indian Society and ask whether its timeless, universal virtues have become its vices today. We use the word Indian in its most rigorous etymological and historical sense. As we have explained in previous articles…
Last July, we wrote an article about Iraq that offered a different view point than most media articles at that time. That article, titled “Iraq & Tibet – Strategic Will Of The American and Chinese People” was received very well and it remains one of the top 10 articles of this blog to this day. In…
Pakistan’s terrorist group, Lashkar-e–Toiba (“LeT“), is as dangerous a threat to Britain and the United States as Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida, according Bruce Riedel, former top-ranking CIA officer, reported Sunday Telegraph (of England) and The Times of India. Mr. Riedel, who served three US Presidents as a Middle East expert on the White House National…
Last week, the Financial Times reported comments by Mr. Luo Ping, a Director-General of the China Banking Regulatory Commission in New York that China would continue to buy US Treasuries in spite of its misgivings about US finances.This is a big story and a big deal. China has the world’s largest holding of US Treasuries….