Author: Brian

Risk, black swans and QE2

Risk, black swans and QE2

Author Nassim Taleb, of Fooled by Randomness and more recently The Black Swan, dubbed as “the guy you can’t afford not to listen to” talks about the current move by the US Federal Reserve...

Doing it right – how to sell online

Doing it right – how to sell online

Recently I purchased an 80 gallon aquarium and have been setting it up. Amazing the difference in prices between local pet shops and sourcing online or from Ebay. In the course of my online...

Canadian Economic Outlook

Canadian Economic Outlook

Not terrible but still not good – Note negative investment in Residential Housing in 2011. On the positive side, the CDN$ should appreciate against the US$ by almost 25% by 2011 which is great...

Couple of interesting sites

Couple of interesting sites

Found these 2 this morning – Escape from Cubicle Nation looks very good – All kinds of pretty sound advice. Plus books and consulting. http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/ This one I am not sure about – no...

Unemployed?  Start a Web Business

Unemployed? Start a Web Business

WASHINGTON — When Bob Bernstein, 60, was laid off from his job as a real estate broker at the height of the recession in 2008, he says he had a feeling it would be...

World Changing Mistakes

World Changing Mistakes

“In all probability,” British Economist William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1874, “the errors of the great mind exceed in number those of the less vigorous one.” Making mistakes turns out to be a strangely...