There are times when you get caught by surprise, there are times when you get dazzled by the headlights but you know something is comin...

Vice funds: These are funds that invest in Alcohol, Tobacco, Arms/Military supplies, and Gambling. Basically they go for everything tha...

2008 looks like a year where we will (we being the EU, USA, and likely Asia) will face a recession, in America the fears are even a lit...

I haven’t take my hat off to Steven Spielberg since E.T., and that’s not just because I don’t wear a hat any more. I officially put one...

Sovereign Wealth Funds were a topic of this blog last year and they are coming to general attention again. A Sovereign Wealth Fund or S...

2007 saw virtually every financial sector face decline. My own holding in Irish Lifes ‘BankScope’ took a pounding worthy of the nationa...

I wrote about inflation in china before and how it might affect their economic growth, in fact it may prove to be their economic Achill...

Not long ago I had a proper rant about the state of Arab nations because I read how a woman in Saudi Arabia was raped and her attackers...

One thing you will hear more about this year is ‘geo-political risk’ and it spans many sectors and countries. One example that instantl...

Yesterday I made a fairly bold statement stating that I believed we are on the cusp of a recession. Today I am going to point out some ...

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