By Barkley Rosser at Econospeak Has the oil price drop come to an end? Very likely. Reports from NovembeReports from Novembe report that the Saudi government has been preparing its budget for the price of oil to be between $45 and $50 per barrel. The price rose during the last two days and fell slightly today, with Brent crude…
By now it is common knowledge that America’s biggest landlord, following a Fed-subsidized scramble for distressed and multi-famility proprties over the past 3 years, is none other than Wall Street in general, and Blackstone in particular. Why did the smartest (and soon to be bailed out) people in the room rush to build an army of…
Photo Credit: BlueSkyImage / Creative Commons By Christoph Janz @ Point Nine Capital We’re fully aware that we don’t always live up to the ideal of the “good VC”, but as Stefan Smalla once said, “Nobody is exactly like that, but it’s good to move towards that ambition. Inch by inch.” Inspired by Ben…
By Roger Kemp, The Conversation Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.– Lewis L Strauss, chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission, 1954. When Strauss first coined the phrase above he was thinking of hydrogen fusion, a technology that always seems to be a tantalising 30 years away. However even without futuristic…
After a tumultuous start to 2015, the market appears to be signaling “all clear.” But don’t be fooled. Here’s how you should be invested for 2015. Things got off to a rough start this year, selling off pretty hard in the first few trading days of 2015. But the market has since started to show signs…
After a tumultuous start to 2015, the market appears to be signaling “all clear.” But don’t be fooled. Here’s how you should be invested for 2015. Things got off to a rough start this year, selling off pretty hard in the first few trading days of 2015. But the market has since started to show signs…
Yesterday, to much shock and dismay, Obama revealed his latest “noble” grand vision: provide a free community college education to millions of folks. Apparently now, far too late, even the community organizer-in-chief realized that with $1.2 trillion in student loans, almost double the total outstanding credit card debt, which as the TBAC warned will rise to…
Do stocks always fall after crude crashes? Not always, but you will have to consider modern finance this time? Modern finance Hedging protection Debt and derivatives blow-ups associated with Oil companies Percentage of economic growth lost verses benefit of cheaper oil. As always, timing is the factor. How much pain will be felt before we…
Technological advancements always empower people to behave differently – what makes today different is that the rate of technological advancement is accelerating beyond our capacity, perhaps even our ability, to react – and this… is new. Societal norms, laws, strategy and tactics have generally lagged behind technological advancement. Coast-to-coast communication in 1815 was measured in horse…
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