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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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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Regardless of the recession and the fact that this crisis has originated in the US in the first place before spreading globally, foreign capital is currently flocking towards the US; when everything goes wrong, the United States is still the N1 currency and Nation in the World. Back in early 2006, as it had been [...]
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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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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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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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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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I love America. It is a country full of energy, optimism, goodness. However it is also a place full of contradictions. On the one hand, there is this the national belief that this is the best country in the world. America shall always overcome. Almost naive by its simplicity, yet at times energizing when you [...]
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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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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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