Our nom de plume is CinemaRasik. Rasik is an amalgam of Aficionado & Connoisseur – one who revels in the Ras or essence. We have long marveled at the ability of Cinema to tell stories and convey deep messages within the story as well as show a completely different view of a story than…
Update: Three days after our article, we saw the tweet below & its chart: It now shows nearly equal probability of Germany leaving the Euro as of Greece leaving the Euro. Interesting, isn’t it? Tuesday, July 27, 2015 – Holger Zschaepitz ?@Schuldensuehner – Is Gexit the new Grexit? While #Grexit index has dropped by half,…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips…
We are generally against petitions on the internet. In the past seven years we have never brought a petition to the attention of our readers and never requested them to sign any. Today, for the first time, we do. Sign this petition. There is a man who has worked tirelessly for a long time to…
President Obama and Secretary Kerry accomplished something this week that had eluded American leadership for over four decades. They broke the chains that had fettered American foreign policy in the Middle East. All the noise you hear and the dust you see should not obscure you to why the deal with Iran is essentially…
Three weeks ago we reported that Japan’s Softbank had announced its plans to make a $20 billion investment in India to produce 20GW of Solar Power. Softbank Chairman, Masayoshi Son, extremely well regarded globally as a smart investor, said that day: “India’s economy is on the cusp of the “hockey stick” curve before takeoff, and has the…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
For us to review a book, it has to be special, it has to be a book that adds to our understanding, a book that improves our ability to think. Today we write about a book that exceeds all these criteria and does it in a way that is truly remarkable. Frankly, we are…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
Everyone understands that different people have different levels of intelligence. The quality of an individual’s intelligence goes a long way towards determining the degree of success the individual achieves in life. Everybody gets this. But few people get that different societies have different levels of intelligence too. This societal intelligence is not the sum of intelligence…