James Chanos, legendary hedge fund manager and president of Kynikos Associates, makes an appearance to discuss the outlook for China. Chanos’s views on China have been well covered in the media (specifically in The New York...
Read MoreBelow is the link to a recent speech by John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist of Sprott Asset Management, on the outlook for gold bullion (courtesy of GATA). Embry concludes his address as follows: “I now firmly believe the...
Read MoreCharlie Rose sits down with Roger Altman, former United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Evan Bayh, an American politician, and Judd Gregg, a former Governor of New Hampshire and current US Senator. A link to the transcript of...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Rebecca Wilder*, author of the News N Economics blog. Today I wrote an article on Angry Bear, Consumers around the world are generally more upbeat, but not uniformly so, highlighting the...
Read MoreSource: John Cole, Comics.com, January 28, 2010. Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreKate Welling of welling@weedon has just conducted another of her top-class interviews with Michael Belkin. Belkin is the author of The Belkin Report that I used to read regularly, but have had difficulty in obtaining over the...
Read MoreBelow are a few snippets regarding the investigation being conducted by Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General of the TARP watchdog. The plot is thickening, as they say … First up, a few paragraphs from Bloomberg. “The US...
Read MoreThe comments below were provided by Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ. As shown on the graph below, the last two weeks have seen the S&P 500 Index break its lower channel line (orange lines), intact since the March 2009 lows. Clearly...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Niels Jensen*, chief executive partner of London-based Absolute Return Partners. “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore* of The Northern Trust Company. Financial headwinds are holding back the pace of economic recovery. This mantra has been repeated frequently in recent months. The latest...
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