This tool, ValueCruncher, is a personal favorite because from business school days I have always liked to do simple what-if analysis based on my best assumptions for the growth in earnings and revenues for a company. I know – this is like NPV-Net Present Value analysis – subject to highly variable assumptions. But that...
According to a Jerusalem Post Survey the mission of the Israelis in its Gaza air strikes and coming ground operations is no less than toppling Hamas and routing them out of the Gaza strip. Now Hamas as the Israelis and others will quickly point out can be just as thuggish as their opposition in achieving...
Blunderbus – n, from Dutch Donderbus or Thunder gun means a muzzle loading shotgun intended to cause maximum harm in crowded spaces; the modern meaning is to masturbate. In either case, the meaning may well apply to the Israeli bombing and possible ground attacks on Gaza. Before the Israeli strike the count, yes-the death...
This is the second tutorial on free financial investment tools which have proved to be very useful in doing financial analysis and portfolio tuning or rebalancings. One of the most important tasks these days is to constantly assess your portfolio for what may be better replacement investments. In order to do this investors must...
Public Trust, like the air we breathe, is a social commons. No one party can buy or control it. But it can be tainted, polluted, and otherwise damaged by individual and collective actions. Rod Blagojevich sits at the public service tip of the “Pay to Play” disease that is infecting all levels of US...
Thank you sweet Louise, Story that is … at the NYTimes who has written a story which describes how lavish compensation and bonuses were at the heart of the current Financial Meltdown – aka Sub Prime Mortgage Induced Financial Disaster. Time to own up and the Times has done it first among the major...
CBC News likes to cultivate the image of “telling it like it is”. “Just the facts mam, just the facts” is what you will purportedly get from the CBC. And then you get the interview today on CBC NewsWorld on why Prime Minister Stephen Harper, having opposed Senate appointments, is making 18 of his...
“WE SAY IT LIKE IT IS” No smal motto for a 2008 Pulitzer prize-winning business newspaper – this appears to be the last bastion for newspapers in the US as the Web Ubeerall phenomenon picks up steam in the Economic meltdown. So I thought it would be good to do some Jay Leno-like Street...
The new anchor, David Gregory at Meet the Press, is interviewing Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice. Apparently the mission is to get “a frank assessment of President Bush” from Condi. And as is typical of recent US Military tactics -a full frontal assault with a barrage of embarrassing questions is being attempted. And of...
Here is a story ostensibly about something else but really that indicates there will be a changing of the guard in the Financial World. One of many.
Both fascinating and frustrating reading. The story of Joseph Needham collecting together the history and legacy of China's technological triumph's is utterly fascinating. But frustrating is the failure of Winchester to shed clear light on why a)China did not already have such a hitorical trove in Beijing and b) why did China miss out on the Industrial Revolution while Japan, even more reclusive, did not.
