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Posted 14 weeks ago
With the Dow reaching a 20% decline from its October peak and officially entering Bear Market territory, it's natural to feel beaten and broken. More depressing, globally, stocks had their worse fi
Posted 15 weeks ago
In trying to keep my head above water in the swirling market seas we ve been facing, I was tempted to talk about Negatrend investment opportunities which I see (the opposite of megatrends). Af
Posted 16 weeks ago
It's been predicted for 25 years that the United State's position as the ber global power would fade away as other empires had done before. Paul Kennedy wrote The Rise and Fall of Powers in 1987 ch
Tags: chinese
Posted 17 weeks ago
A year ago, we wrote that the launch of the iPhone marked a new era - previously there was B.C., then there was A.D., and now it is i.P.It was not our keen eye for a phenomenon that fueled our enthusi
Posted 18 weeks ago
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. - Mark Twain.Going through my weekly ritual of powering through Friday's edition of Investor's Business Daily, I was struck by the section which featu
Posted 19 weeks ago
Oil Shock - a barrel of Texas Tea sold for over $135 on Thursday.Gas Shock - it cost me $80 to fill my 17 gallon tank this week.Milk Shock - at $4 a gallon, it cost almost as much to put milk on my ce
Posted 20 weeks ago
I'm not looking for sympathy, but writing a weekly market perspective piece is hard. Forget the time it takes, just coming up with fresh ideas that make sense is a cause of weekly anxiety that usuall
Posted 21 weeks ago
Starting Monday night, we will be hosting our Fourth Annual ThinkTomorrow Today Conference in Half Moon Bay. ThinkTomorrow Today brings over 500 leading venture capitalist, private companies and indus
Posted 22 weeks ago
I spent the last week on a pilgrimage to Dubai the financial Mecca of the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia the home of Mecca Mecca. The purpose of my sixteen thousand mile journey, literally half
Posted 23 weeks ago
If one were to mindlessly extrapolate the present to the future, to say 2015, oil would go from $120 to $500 a barrel, corn would be at $15 a bushel and Dubai and Des Moines would be the two most powe
Tags: oil
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