Chinese Inflation is Overflowing

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 18, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments China’s People’s Bank announced this morning that it is raising bank’s reserve requirements for the second time this year.  Again, this is to help stave off inflation in China.  The specifics of this move on the part of China’s banking authority are not interesting.  What is interesting about Chinese efforts at fighting inflation are:   1.  The many methods of...
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17 February 2011: Wall Street Journal Quotes my Forbes Contributor Piece

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 17, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments Yesterday I wrote a piece about the Delaware Chancery Court’s upholding the use of poison pill plans by boards of directors.  The piece was simultaneously published here on the “What My Intuition Tells Me Now” blog and on my Forbes Contributor page.   Well today that Jason Apollo Voss Forbes Contributor piece was quoted in the Wall Street Journal.  I am quite satisfied to...
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Obstacles to Accessing Your Intuition, Part One

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 17, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Intuition is a powerful remedy to our western culture’s emphasis on left-brain, analytical education where answers and outcomes are unrealistically controlled and certain.  All of us have had the experience of taking our left-brain knowledge into the world only to encounter tough situations where facts just don’t answer important questions for us.  Questions like: what should I invest in now;...
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Delaware Court’s Poison Pill Ruling is Bad for Shareholder Value

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 16, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Back in January I wrote about poison pill plans – one of the biggest destroyers of shareholder value.  These nasty little board of directors tools are designed to prevent so-called “hostile” takeovers.  Instead what they do is prevent most bids for acquiring a business by making the cost of an acquisition artificially high.  Put in place back in the early 1980s by most of...
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Fourth Quarter GDP Barely Grows in the Eurozone

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 15, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Fourth quarter eurozone GDP (gross domestic product) grew at a very slow pace of 0.3%.  Growth of this magnitude is barely above 0.0% and indicates just how precarious the economic recovery is in Europe.   Analysis: Officially the low rate of growth is being attributed to bad weather throughout Europe.  Yet the growth rate in the fourth quarter was the same pace as in the third quarter,...
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Effects of a Chinese inflation rate above government targets

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 15, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments This morning the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics announced that their version of the CPI (consumer price index) rose 4.9% in January, as compared to the year before.  Officially the 2011 inflation target for China is 4.0%.  So the actual rate logged for last month is 22.5% higher than targeted.   Analysis: Clearly the Chinese government is continuing to struggle with inflation in its...
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15 February 2011: Jason Apollo Voss Featured in SmartMoney’s Cover Story

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Feb 15, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments I am quoted in SmartMoney magazine’s March cover story entitled, “The Power of Gold: The Risks and Rewards.”  Props to Russell Pearlman the story’s writer with whom I had a very good rapport.   The entire article is excellent, but here’s what I had to say:   “Other investors go so far as to say there’s a gold bubble, inflated by the biggest...
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