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 leader in market coverage, because we have watched CNBC for years and watch it every day. We do switch channels from time to time to watch Fox Business and…
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 “Is the American free market smarter than the rest of the World?“ We thought that would be seem unduly chauvinistic and so we chose our title after…
On August 2, 2008, we wrote an article titled “Jim Cramer on Ben Bernanke – Fair in August 2007 and Unfair in August 2008 – (https://cinemarasik.com/2008/08/01/jim-cramer-on-ben-bernanke—fair-in-august-2007-and-unfair-in-august-2008.aspx)In that article, we coined the term Mo-Force to describe the hordes of huge, momentum-driven, performance-oriented investors (Macro Hedge funds and Quant Funds) that have dominated global markets for the…
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 regions and others will continue to grow forever creating a virtuous demand cycle for global prosperity. CNBC Viewers, like us, can recall episode after episode in which infatuated…
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 between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. A British diplomat was quoted as saying that NATO needs to find a suitable “Dictator” to take control of Afghanistan. The United Nations declared…
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 the Bush Administration set out to accomplish when it cane to power in 2000. (see our article on September 13 titled “President Bush and India – His Vision, His Accomplishments, His Legacy”…
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, comments about China and India from the celebrated Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. We felt that the world, at least the investing world, was uneducated about the strategic and military competition between 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 legacy from England and the lessons learned from that legacy have determined the fortunes of each country to this day. America inherited England’s strength, its iron determination and its deep…
On Friday, September 19, the top news story was the massive “bailout” plan proposed by the Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson. Every Television Anchor wanted to know on air who was responsible for this mess. Every politician from the liberal left to the conservative right bemoaned the terrible burden the plan imposes on the Average American….
To say that the last week in the US markets was extraordinary seems so lame. But we cannot think of a simpler and more succinct word to describe it. What a week it was! Monday brought the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest Investment Bank and the arranged marriage between Merrill Lynch, the symbol for America’s…