Year: 2011

Business Incubator, Wunderkinds, and Social Media…

Start-ups are risky by nature, the upside however, is potentially life-changing… We have written previously about the art of the private deal. In that post we alluded to a very successful friend of ours who we also interviewed for our readers. This gentleman, who focuses among other things on start-ups in the technology sector, has

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Santa Claus – A Drug Pusher and a Terrorist..?

Back by popular demand… Chris originally ran this post last year at this time. For those that lack holiday humor, relax, it’s just satire! ————– I’m going to make a tribute to Santa this year! Christianity boasts 2.1 billion followers. If you add in non-believers like me, who still put

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Japan, Life Insurance Companies and Bedroom Talk…

It must be the stench of an enormous pile of debt that keeps bringing me back to Japan. Like a scavenging mongrel at a rubbish dump, I’m drawn to the pure absurdity that exists in today’s financial markets. Greece, Italy, Ireland, France they’re all running unsustainable finances. The problem is

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Leverage – Why Here, Why Now?

Leverage – It brought down, LTCM, Lehman and recently MF Global. It will probably bring down Deutsche and Credit Anstalt before the final episode of the European sitcom, “We’re all family right?” is released to viewers around the world, likely to the Dire Straits tune Brothers in arms. The flip side

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3 Life-Changing Lessons

It was a typically miserable, rainy, cold Thursday night in the city of London’s financial district. The “suits” had begun to descend on the local pubs in an effort to wipe out the memories of the day. They would soon be engaging in an orgy of lies, chest puffing, pontificating

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The Best Trades and Investments – 2012!

We investors, speculators and traders may easily be considered a crazy lot. Our heroes are determined by their intellectual capacity and actions. We look up to entrepreneurs and those that think for a living. We don’t care if they are one-legged dwarfs with chronic halitosis, or stunning supermodel types. Tabloids annoy us,

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Investing in the World’s Longest-Running Civil War

Burma has been in an almost perpetual state of civil war since 1949. Human rights violations, brutal oppression against a mostly un-armed populace, child trafficking, and living conditions I would not subject a dog to (a central banker yes… a dog no) have been synonymous with Burma since its independence

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Open Source Medicine

Earlier this week I spoke about the growth of industries catering to an ageing population. Biotechnology is one sector that seems disproportionately poised to benefit. With the demographic trend firmly in place, the demand for drugs, combined with the expiration of important drug patents, will act as additional tailwinds behind the

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