“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” – Edmund Burke In general, I try to apply the maxim that one ought never to attribute to bad intent what can more easily be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity. I bring this up…

Histogenics (HSGX) may finally deliver an engineered cartilage that can make damaged knees good again. There are a range of new alternatives being developed but the positioning of Histogenics and their “NeoCart” is encouraging. They are enrolling patients for a Phase 3 trial for knee defects. [See the HSGX IPO roadshow slides for the full story.] At…

Yesterday, I discussed the recent slide in oil prices wherein I stated: “For investors long ‘energy’ at the current time, oil prices are indeed extremely oversold and are due for a bounce. That ‘bounce’ should likely be used to substantially reduce energy positions in the short term as an increasing amount of data suggests oil prices could go lower.”…

With Black Friday sales plunging and Cyber Monday growth slowing, it appears the chickens of stagnant wages and debt-saturation are coming home to roost for a massacred middle-class America. However, as WSJ reports “we are buying less stuff,” because the basic costs of necessities such as healthcare, food eaten at home, rent, education, and cellphones…

While I cringed at some of the early parts of the film and the mid-century American attitudes towards the Japanese, I think this documentary provides some valuable insights into the evolution of the modern economy that is Japan.  I try not to judge other periods with temporal prejudice, and I think such liberality might serve…