Archive - Jul 2013 - Blog entry

And we don't mean vision...

Mass Surveillance Is “Killing Our Most Productive Golden Goose”

Apple's second largest value driver decline was called with precision, detail and accuracy - as was the very similar call on the iPhone, Apple's primary value driver (also in decline). Where is the buy point?

Just when you believed that the last you were going to hear about Edward Snowden was that he was holed up in the airport in Moscow, living off borscht and blini (obviously topped with caviar) all washed down with the potato drink, the outside world will be gearing itself up to go to the foot of their stairs in exclamations of ‘well, blow me down!’.

Obama wants to give middle-class Americans a ‘grand bargain’. Roll up! Roll up! You won’t believe your eyes.

Lump this into the mix with the challenges around energy, the instability of the global banking system, the high unemployment rates, particularly among the youth and interest rates at unsustainably low levels, it would be reckless to report that the world economy is either on the brink of or on the road to recovery. Gold is a finite resource, the Chinese central bank continues to acquire gold quietly and without declaring.....for now.

It’s worth repeating: In the shadow of this game, gold looks like a solid investment.

Problem ... What Problem?

“Intentional ignorance” undermined in a targeted manner the principle of political responsibility

So the second and third largest economies in the world are in collapse with stock market crashes. What are the odds the world will pull through this?

JP Morgan has been fined the sum of $410 million due to improper practices involving price manipulation via its subsidiary JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corp today in California and the mid-west by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the US.

Beats the pants off the Russian Mafia...

Obamacare is not about, "protecting young adults and eliminating burdens on businesses and families," but rather our government is helping us to destroy our own children with entitlement and to burden our own businesses and families with unnecessary costs.

What is at stake is illustrated by the difference in oil consumption between Asia and the West. The former, exemplified by China and India, is still increasing its consumption growth. The latter, basically the OECD, has been using less oil each year since the crisis began in 2008. This is unsustainable. The OECD’s deepening recession is evidenced by its falling oil use while the fragility of the export dependent and imported energy dependent East’s growth prospects suggests that its real growth rate is about to peak or already has. 

You Keynesian PhD Weasel Turd!

Let's run some quick numbers to determine if Google's management flummoxed in thier largest foray into hardware yet....