Tribute to Sarah Palin – We hardly knew ye
Europe is still circling the drain, getting ready from the big dive, Steve Jobs died, and now we hear from Wasilla that Sara Palin isn’t running for president! What next? Andrew Sullivan sums it...
Author: Brian
The Automatic Earth
Tribute to one of my favorite Financial Activist site – The Automatic Earth. Sometime a little radical and extreme, but often right on the mark and an important contribution to the conversation.
Quelle Différence
I was recently researching a purchase of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN), which are the 10-digit number that uniquely identifies books and book-like products published internationally. I found the USA site first – ISBN...
A busy day across the pond
Well the EURO Zone had a very busy day today, on the eve of the labour day weekend here in North America. WE, over here, actually did not have a busy day. The U.S....
Eve of Destruction
The Wall Street Journal, penned by a business professor, had this to say – from an American example, true, but we, here in Canada of course are ‘different,’ “If a disciplined investor who might...
Hilarious quote
Carson Black, analyst who exposed massive fraud in (former) stock market darling, Canada/Chinese forestry giant Sino-Forest : “I even combed my hair forward for a ‘Dumb and Dumber’ look. I tried to sound really dumb...
Oh No
The OECD just released its Leading Indicators for May which seem to confirm that well, actually, there isn’t really a recovery and in fact, things are rather bad all over.
Musings on Facebook
Some interesting musings on Facebook, and while I do like Facebook for lots of different reasons, it has something irritating about it which this writer has identified, Although Facebook is properly classified as “social...
Content isn’t helpful
After Google’s recent Farmer or Panda update, where untold thousands of webmasters, including myself to a lesser degree, perceive themselves as collateral damage in Google’s attempt to police the quality of online content. See...