Year: 2014

Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We are pleased to announce that a new and much-anticipated feature of Capitalist Exploits is now here. Every Friday our “head” Trader, Brad Thomas will be answering readers questions. Questions about the markets, how to trade them, how to manage risk, the macro, the micro and much in between. If

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But It Says So on Facebook!

Funny story. I spoke with a fellow angel investor recently who is now a successful investor but wasn’t always. We were regaling past successes and failures. He told me a story of a terrible deal, which as he recounted the story involved a “Doctor”. The company in question was a

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Why Bitcoin is Important

“Bitcoin is the anti currency”; “Bitcoin, the currency of the future”; the “currency of the resistance”; “Bitcoin is a Fad”; “Bitcoin is a fraud”; “Bitcoin is a currency for drug dealers,  kiddy fiddlers and terrorists.” These are some of the opinions I’ve heard thrown around when discussing Bitcoin. I have

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Destroying Wall Street by Democratizing Financial Analysis

Nearly 4 years ago I penned an article entitled Open source world. In it I described a variety of changes taking place globally and how the status quo was being broken by open sourcing, led predominantly by technological innovation freeing up information. I discussed the legal industry and how increasingly

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An App for Your Country?

The world’s gone “tech crazy” once again. ZeroHedge.com recently ran a great article showing the buying spree in the new “Dotcoms.” I’ve nicked the graphic they used in the article, which so eloquently shows the timeline in the current round of acquisitions: In the spirit of educating myself about the

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King Coal – Driving Indonesia’s Economy

In June of last year our colleague Scott caught up with Ranjeet Sundher, CEO of Challenger Deep Resources (CDE:TSX-V), a company focused on coal development and production in Indonesia. Whilst in Singapore he penned a summary of their conversation, Conquering the Indonesian (and Mongolian) Frontier. Scott sat down again with

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The Creeping Theft of Freedom

We’re quickly heading into the abyss. I’m serious. I offer the story you’ll read below as a mere anecdote in a sea of troubles. On return from a recent trip to Sri Lanka Mark and I traveled through Australia. Proceeding through the cattle stop that is “customs” we then met

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3 Key Ways to Expand Your Business

Today we’re hearing from our friend Chris Steely at GPS Business Group.  Chris Tell and I are making our way back from our Meet Up in Sri Lanka. We’ll have more on that next week… GPS Business Group was established in 2005 as a comprehensive business training and leadership effectiveness

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