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Networking in Tough Times
Be clear. Be professional. Do your research. It’s never a bad time to network. For some, it comes easier than others…so it’s time for a refresher: »
Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere: The Onion
Classic. Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere »
Marc Faber on CNN
The patient is already dead – Marc Faber on how throwing money at the problem is not the solution. var VideoID = "10648"; var Width = 585; var Height = 370; »
A World Without Oil
The average American consumes roughly 25 barrels of oil per year: ten barrels of oil for food, nine barrels for autos, and seven barrels for homes. What would life be like if we didn’t have oil? National Geographic »
Charlie Rose Interviews Elizabeth Warren
“I am afraid. I’m afraid because of what I see in the real economy. I’m afraid because I don’t see books that are clean, balance sheets that have been cleaned up. I’m afraid because in October of 2008, Secretary Paulson came to the American people and he said the problem is... »
Bill Gross Discusses Jobs Report
The bond king discusses the surprisingly good jobs report. »
Anatomy of a Debt Crisis
With Greece announcing cuts that will reduce its budget deficit by 2% of GDP, it is important to step back to see how the country got here. Greece’s austerity measures are already being met with fierce opposition across the general public, as Greek citizens are now likely to feel significant financial pain for the... »
Remembering Happiness
Did reading this sentence make you happy? Or do you merely remember reading it as a happy experience? Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. »
Growth, Peak Oil, and Potential Collapse
Dennis Meadows at World Resources Forum 2009 in Davos (CH): Growth versus Development Excerpt from the interview: “There was a time in the rich Western countries when it was very useful to have physical expansion–increasing capital, increasing energy use, increasing consumption of materials, more and more buildings, and so forth. But we are far past that... »
Gross Says Sovereign Debt to Resemble Corporate Returns
Bill Gross talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about the outlook for sovereign debt and Federal Reserve monetary policy. Again, he discusses the impending end of Fed purchases of MBS. Nobody really knows if this will end well. Consequently, many institutional investors are avoiding MBS’s in case rates rise. However, the aversion to the asset class by... »