June 2009

New Building Collapsed In Shanghai

Now just imagine if you own the new apartments in those buildings next to the one that collapsed over the weekend. Look at the uprooted foun...

Below is an interesting piece from Bespoke Research tabulating the expected GDP growth rates for 2009. Only China and India are expected to ...

Is a crime a crime, or the severity dependent on the amount that was "fraudulently obtained" by the perpetrator? Court rulings hav...

China has been ramping up lending over the last 7 months. Yes, it was with good intentions. Yes, it was actual lending not just for show. Ye...

Fund Performance for salvadordali's Mutual Fund fund rankings ...

This may be the most often used word in the English language, probably after the word "the". But how many of us know the origin of...

In a recent interview with Warren Buffett: On whether he will cash out of Goldman Sachs: No, no, no. I will keep those Goldman warrants righ...

There are plenty of investors who monitor the buying and selling by company insiders, i.e. senior management and substantial shareholders. T...

There is some genuine concern now over the H1N1 virus. Fact, this is nowhere as deadly as the H5N1 which ravaged HK and most of Asian econom...

China has led the way by asking its banks to loosen the lending taps, and that has been reflected in the broader economy. China is an import...

I don't have a terribly high opinion of Jim Rogers. Big picture guys can take a terribly long time before they are proven right - my ada...

Have commodity prices run ahead of fundamentals? Or is it that China has begun stock piling aggressively? Commodity prices have rallied sinc...