Jun 2010 8
Annie, Get Your Gun!
As you probably know already, in the US it’s legal for citizens to own and carry guns. This sounds a bit strange to “us” Europeans (Even sounds strange...
Jun 2010 2
Is Military Power Important in Economics?
In discussions about the dollar’s eventual loss in value until it becomes worthless, actually that’s what many people believe because of the increased money printing, trade imbalance and...
May 2010 29
Do You Really Want To Be Rich?
If you ask anyone if they want o be rich 99.9% would probably say yes. Is it better to be rich or poor? Again, 99.9% would say it’s...
May 2010 29
Wealth Equals Energy
In his book, “Why We Want You to Be Rich”, co-written with Donald Trump, Kiyosaki explains why wealth is equal to energy. When the price of energy goes down,...
May 2010 28
Real Estate Advice from Donald Trump
I’m skimming through an old Trump book that I read several years ago entitled, “The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received”. Most of the lessons aren’t exclusive...
May 2010 27
Real Negative Interest Rates
Whenever I’m reading any book on economy or finance and I hit a new term I go straight to my computer to look it up online. The vocabulary...
May 2010 26
Sovereign bonds and wealth funds
The more I learn about finance the less I understand why government finances are run so poorly. It seems like we should just hire a team of accountants...
May 2010 26
The Crash of 2008
I’m reading a book written by George Soros that I picked up in Gibert last time Sally and I were in Paris. It’s called “The Crash of 2008”. ...
May 2010 22
Who Creates Jobs?
In a CNBC article about the latest Mad Money episode with Jim Cramer he states that Obama’s number one priority should be jobs, jobs jobs. It was interesting...
May 2010 22
Naked Short Selling
Here’s another interesting financial term relevant to the times that has nothing to do with nudity. A normal short sale is when an investor makes a bet...