Five new technologies article

The Wall Street Journal has an article today about 5 “new” energy technologies to pay attention to. Because our energy future is one of the major investment themes of human future, let’s take a look, shall we? They are as follows… space based...

Consultant caveat

Happy Friday to everyone! Today’s post is inspired by sad news that one of my friend’s has lost her job at the recommendation of a consulting firm. You would hope that losing your job was due to poor job performance. Yet in this case she had turned a...

Geopolitical update

At the very moment U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is visiting Moscow to defuse tensions between the U.S./Israel and Russia/Iran, Russia announced yesterday that it is changing its nuclear doctrine. Specifically they have changed the doctrine to include the...

Brief financial analysis pointer

To tune into the state of the market does not always require a deep intuitive insight. Sometimes it just requires a brief, but accurate reading of information. For example, I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal’s news alerts and yesterday they sent out the...

Again, incremental economic improvement

Several more economic indicators came in favorably this morning: the Consumer Price Index and initial jobless claims. CPI: In September the CPI rose just 0.2%. Why this is important: We have discussed before that a little inflation is good for an economy. Deflation...