12 January 2011: Interview with The Copernicus Institute link!

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 12, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments 12 January, 2011 I had a 40 minute discussion with the Copernicus Institute’s Chief Instigator, Steve Saenz.  The interview is an excellent overview of why I wrote The Intuitive Investor, as well as a good general discussion of why the book is appropriate for investment professionals, too.   Here is the link:...
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Underemployment > unemployment in the long-term

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 12, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured an article about the number of folks in the United States who have found “work” but are dramatically under-employed in their new positions.  These are folks who have found a job but whose pay and responsibilities are dramatically lower than they were prior to losing their former jobs. Examples of this included a money manager who was now...
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EU crisis?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 11, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments According to the Wall Street Journal this morning the European Union governments are meeting privately.  The subject?  Increasing the size of the Eurozone’s bailout fund. The reason is that both Portugal and Spain have made it onto the radar screens of investors.  Naturally, these investors are concerned that both governments may default on their debt or that they have burgeoning solvency...
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Peripheral signs of Chinese nervousness

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 11, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments That reliable source of geopolitical information, Stratfor, is reporting that the Chinese government recently formed a company called The Guoxin Asset Management Corporation.  It was capitalized with $680 million in funds.  That company, in turn, has just taken spent some of that money to make equity stakes in two separate businesses.  These are China Railway Signal and Communication Corporation...
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10 January 2011 – Interview with Blog on Books

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 10, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments Here is a link to a comprehensive interview about The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth I did with Blog on Books.   Feel free to comment on the blog if you enjoy the interview.  Tell me what you liked, what you didn’t, and what you would like to hear more about.   Jason
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Economists say, “more banking rules, please”

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 10, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Over the last several days the annual meeting of the American Economic Association has been taking place in my hometown of Denver.  A recurring theme is developing as presenter after presenter talks about their work.  That theme is that there needs to be more reform for banking laws.  Specifically the professors are saying the following: hedge funds still are not regulated enough and how will...
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Facebook hubub worrisome

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 9, 2011 in Blog, Worst of the Blog | 1 comment This week the investment world was all atwitter about a round of private financing done on behalf of Facebook.  The offering documents for the round of money raising for the company valued Facebook at over $50 billion.  Is this valuation reasonable?  And what does this valuation remind me of? First, the $50 billion valuation is higher than a business like Time Warner.  Time Warner has decades...
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