Category Archives: Finance
Real returns and gold
Eddy Elfenbein’-s post ventures in the same territory as Jason Ruspini’-s one circa January 2010.
New York-based hedge fund Conquest Capitals macro fund turned a 3.75 percent profit on Thursday, and ended the week up about 10 percent not including fees.
My bill will bring 100 percent transparency to our financial markets, prevent future bailouts and, most importantly, protect Main Street.
Michael Lewis on Imus
Michael Lewis on CBS 60 Minutes: How the capitalism was almost destroyed by the capitalists in the Fall of 2008 – [VIDEO]
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Part 2:
Felix Salmon review of Michael Lewis’-s book, “-The Big Short”-.
Greece owns buildings, companies and uninhabited islands, which could all be used for debt redemption.
I love the idea, but would our good friend George Tziralis (Ask Markets &- Open Fund) agree?
- 2,000 islands–
- 227 of those islands are inhabited.
Sell them all.
The Euro will fall to $1 within a year. – [PREDICTION]
Rejection of the patent claims involving a method of hedging risks in commodities trading
The applicants (Bernard L. Bilski and Rand Warsaw) filed a patent application (on 10 April 1997) for a method of hedging risks in commodities trading. Such patent claims are often termed business method claims. […] Bilski’-s method claim was patent-ineligible because it did not “transform any article to a different state or thing.” […]
It has been widely reported that the Bilski decision will call into question the validity of many already issued business method patents. […]
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Via our Jason Ruspini
The United States and the European governments will default on their debt, eventually – dixit Marc Faber. [PREDICTIONS]
Singapore is the safest.
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