Emerging Markets
Jan 30th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Emerging Markets, Macro Economics
MAYBE YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT GERMANY as the sick man of Europe. You may also have heard that the German economy is paralyzed by a web of strict labor laws. In contrast, you may have heard less or nothing at all in the news that Germany has been the world’s ...
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Tags: German capital equipment, German economy, investment boom, Mittelstand companies, U.S. recession
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Jan 25th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Emerging Markets
WHEN SOME OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND POWERFUL MINDS in the financial world are all doing one thing, it can be very difficult for anyone to do anything else. With fortunes at stake, both personal and financial, going against the trend can sometimes lead to losses totaling in the billions.
If ...
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Tags: ABX index, Goldman Sachs, shorting subprime mortgages, subprime market, subprime mortgage market
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Jan 18th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Emerging Markets
THINK OF THE LAST TIME YOU BOUGHT A HOUSE or refinanced a mortgage. How did you decide on where to get your mortgage? Many mortgage shoppers who compare quotes online discover a stunning array of choices.
This development has placed consumers in the driver’s seat when it comes to choosing a ...
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Tags: Bankrate Inc, internet mortgage shopping, short sale
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Dec 7th, 2007 |
By Michael Shedlock |
Category: Emerging Markets, Gold
IF YOU ASKED PEOPLE TO LIST THEIR BEST INVESTMENTS since 2000, what percentage of them do you think would say gold or silver? Chances are, not many. Most would probably tell you about some technology stock that they happened to hold onto that has doubled or tripled in price from ...
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Tags: dollar depreciation, gold & silver stock, technology stocks
Posted in Emerging Markets, Gold |
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Nov 21st, 2007 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Emerging Markets, Energy
CHINA'S LAST EMPEROR, PU YI, LOVED HIS SOYBEANS. They were a staple of the Manchurian diet in Northern China. In the 1930s, a forward-thinking Brazilian friend asked Pu Yi if he could take some soybeans back to Brazil. Pu Yi, only a nominal regent by this point, complied. The beans ...
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Tags: brazil & argentina land, farmland, international agriculture
Posted in Emerging Markets, Energy |
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Nov 16th, 2007 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Emerging Markets, Macro Economics
Fitz here. Taking a quick break during the latest of a series of fact-finding trips to Buenos Aires, a very civilized city.
I’m writing from my coveted spot at a sidewalk café in the city’s fashionable Recoleta district. I wasn’t planning to stop and whip out my laptop but (a), there ...
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Tags: argentina election, consistent government, world trade
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Nov 8th, 2007 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Emerging Markets
A.J. LIEBLING WAS ONE OF THOSE GREAT New Yorker writers of an era long gone. Some of his best material came as a war correspondent during World War II. And one of his greatest essays was “Westbound Tanker.” It's about how Liebling hitched a ride with a Norwegian oil tanker ...
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Tags: dated electrical grids, electric power research institute, power outages
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Nov 7th, 2007 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Emerging Markets
MUCH LIKE THE WORLD OF SPORTS, the corporate world is full of high-paid and in-demand superstars. As with their heroes on the field, many average Americans cannot fully understand the amount of money that is paid to many powerful CEOs.
Last month, All-Star third baseman Alex Rodriguez opted out of his ...
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Tags: ceo swap, credit leadership changes, credit market, credit market trouble
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Oct 22nd, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
"After they've been hit once they take a hell of a lot of killing..."
— PH Wilson, on cape buffalo, in Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The morning was cool, gray. As wintry as it gets in southern Zimbabwe.
The two previous days had brought ...
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Tags: africa, cape buffalo hunt, wildlife hunting
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Oct 12th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
No adventure writing today, sorry. I know some of you were eagerly anticipating…
And I had the most exciting story of my whole trip waiting for this chapter, too. But I decided to hold onto it because of the nature of feedback I got from the first two parts of this ...
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Tags: african economy, elephant hunting, safari hunting, wildlife profits
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