Author: Vivian Lewis

  As with Nixon so with Goldman Sachs; it is not the fraud but the cover-up which will hurt its business and finances, and bring down the house. The defence Goldman and its legal advisors came up with amounts to a claim...

Contributor Frida Ghitis wrote the headline.   Among the acts of God which have occurred so far this year, the volcanic eruption in Iceland was relatively benign. Icelanders living on the banks of a river beside the volcano...

*GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK 39.51 NYSE – yield 4.90%) faces good news and bad. The bad is that Glaxo’s Wellbutrin anti-depression drug faces generic competition from Sun Pharma of India which got FDA approval for its...

  What slowdown? What recession? Today China reported that its Q1 growth rate was a whopping 11.9%. This makes it even more likely that the country’s currency will be allowed to appreciate, not to satisfy US demands...

  If you drink enough beer you can forget about milk. Your editor does not speak Chinese but three Chinese-Americans keep an eye on things for her. Some moons ago, one of them mentioned that there was going to be a second...

A post-prandial file follows with news highlights from China, Russia, South Africa, Israel, Finland, Brazil, and South Africa. My lunch was with author Piers-Paul Read and his wife Emily, a fellow editor at an excellent...

The breakdown of a ceiling on the Dow Jones can be a harbinger of doom. Are we moving into a suckers’ rally, when the bubble will inflate just before bursting? There are indications that worry people. Tom McClellan of...