by Jason Apollo Voss | 21 10 2009 | Blog
Gross domestic product is formally calculated as follows: C + I + G + X = GDP In that formulation ‘C’ stands for consumer spending. That number is traditionally around 70% of GDP. As we all know consumer spending of all kinds is flat to down. We are each...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 21 10 2009 | Blog
Yesterday further nuclear-Iran talks took place in Geneva. As I described on Monday it looked as if Iran was going to stall rather than negotiate. And that is exactly what took place. Despite the fact that Iran agreed on October 1st to talks with France, they...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 19 10 2009 | Blog
In Geneva today part two of talks designed to control and curtail Iran’s nuclear program got under way. The entities involved are: the U.S., Iran, Russia, France and the International Atomic Energy Agency. After a limited amount of progress being made on October...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 19 10 2009 | Blog
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...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 10 2009 | Blog
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...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 10 2009 | Blog
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...
