Reading Michael Lewis' ‘Moneyball' just over a year ago, I thought the shrewdness of Billy Beane offered some great analogies for investors. As ‘Moneyball' recently hit the big screen I decided to pul...
“It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy ... If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper th...
On Wednesday of last week, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced that it would attempt to aid the US economy by extending the duration of its portfolio, effectively performing what the ma...
US housing, in my opinion, offers a great long-term opportunity. I know this probably sounds a bit crazy as most people think the US housing market is getting worse and has not begun to recover from i...
There is an old adage in the media industry that “Bad news sells newspapers”. The past month has been a goldmine for the ever-present 24-hour news cycle with a myriad of economic and market meltdowns....
The government’s new indication of granting Permanent Resident Certificates (PRC) to long-term key employees is an excellent economic decision to foster a broader sense of community and encourage a mo...
As a parent I can’t tell you how many times I have warned my rather stubborn four-year-old daughter to “stop doing something or I’ll put her in time out”.
Being a rather “independent” child she often...
I just received a letter from my local healthcare provider indicating that my monthly healthcare premiums have been increased 16.9 percent this year. This meant that the monthly payment had jumped alm...
Recent economic data has been poor and surprised to the downside. The Citigroup Economic Surprise Index for the United States (which essentially measures the positive or negative level of actual econo...
Most investors realise that to be successful you need to have your own point of view, that it often pays to fade the crowd, and be somewhat contrarian.
That said, it would seem to me to be rather myop...
