PBS has a great piece on… The financial crisis and the meltdown. Yes, I know: “One more?” you think? Yes, but it’s a good one, so check it out here.
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The stock market explained to my Dog
Posted on March 20, 2009 by Romain
So puppy, you are thinking about investing in the bone market? That is very wise of you. Indeed as the bone market has been losing more than 50% in the past 6 months, there is strong untapped potential for superior return on bone investment. As a matter of fact, I can guarantee that if you [...]
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Business Idea for Free! (for the Tobacco Industry)
Posted on March 16, 2009 by Romain
Have you heard of the electronic cigarette? It is basically a smoke-free cigarette operated by battery that enables smokers to accomplish the smoking gesture while providing some sort of fix without providing any nuisance (think second-hand smoking) to non-smokers. It is one the responses to the smoking bans in public places that have been happening [...]
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Rules for a Rally
Posted on March 10, 2009 by Romain
Marketwatch has this interesting take as regards the 10 elements that could signal stock market bottom. I am listing my two favorite ones here:
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What is the value of Admiration?
Posted on March 10, 2009 by Romain
Fortune just released its ranking of the world’s most admired companies. You can look it up here. The key question that immediately came to me was “how much has it changed”?
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Listen to the Man! – Follow-up on Lack of Investment
Posted on March 3, 2009 by Romain
Ok, citing Buffet might not be 100% Independent Thinking, but you have to admit, the guy is often right. According to him, even gloomier news ahead if there is no investment.
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Wei-JI or not, there are opportunities in this crisis
Posted on March 3, 2009 by Romain
For more background on the controversy regarding the interpretation of weiji, click here I have done a fair amount of work on Innovation during the past couple of years, consulting with major companies on how to analytically generate breakthrough ideas / concepts. Enough to claim some expertise in this area. One of the takeaways from [...]
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Follow-up on “you cannot grow forever”
Posted on March 1, 2009 by Romain
It’s good to see I am not alone out there. As Henry Blodget puts it, here is the chart that is worth a thousand word. The source article is here. Just in case you wondered, the population did NOT double over the last ten years… Enjoy!
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Manifesto #1: for maximum value-creation we need values
Posted on February 27, 2009 by Romain
This is the first of potentially, many posts, regarding my being annoyed (shall I say pissed?) by the level of incompetence, intellectual laziness and greed that we have been faced with in the past ten years or so. In this section, I will post a few basic sanity checks, and rules of thumbs that unfortunately [...]
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On lack of Investment and how this could end up very badly
Posted on February 27, 2009 by Romain
We are in a vicious cycle. “Best practices” as regards how to navigate during a crisis suggest that a firm should not stop investing during a downturn; actually a firm should push innovation and investments so as to: – offer differencing / innovative products during the recession in order to justify a price premium – [...]
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