Facebook hubub worrisome

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...

Global crisis foment

Normally I do not post about geopolitics because generally these issues do not affect the performance of the financial markets. However, I have to alert you to rumblings about Iran that I am reading, mostly via Stratfor, and why that warrants our attention. The issue...

Up, up and away?

…the Holiday is fast approaching and I hope that all of you have wonderful plans to enjoy a breather. Today marked the third day in a row that the financial markets closed up. More importantly, they closed up despite the fact that there was bad news from...