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The economical advantages of commerce are surpassed in importance by those of its effects, which are intellectual and moral. It is hardly possible to overrate the value, in the present low state of human improvement, of...
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UGF from Frida
Vivian is running this late dispatch from Frida Ghitis today first of all because it was my fault she missed our deadline by sitting in on the conference call with the stock she wrote about. I assumed it was being held Brazilian...
Read MoreForecasting Gold Prices
“The idea that you can actually predict what is going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the world,” said George Soros. This presumably explains why he told the Davos World Economic Forum that gold was a...
Read MoreThursday Trades
Today I sold Ormat at $31.07/sh, and NICE Systems at $30.41. I bought Mellanox, MLNX, at $18.51. There will be more Israeli trading tomorrow in a different sector. Full content is available to subscribers only. Subscribe...
Read MoreWrong Israeli Conference
The market for ipo’s from China is reportedly drying up, not just because people are worried about tightening credit conditions, but because of who is coming. The latest filings are for Redgate Media Group, a...
Read MoreLinguistics, Prayer, Ethics, and Geology
New York reader FBN, an Irish national, wrote to complain about my article about simulateneous translation, in which I called the Irish language “erse”. He says:The archaic term Erse (from Erische), originally a...
Read MoreEthical drugs
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Read MoreWe’re Giving Away $25,000
Hi, I’d like to write you a check for $5,000.No, this is not a joke.We are in the process of planning to increase the reach of our investment advisory services and as part of that we’d like to share the successes of...
Read MoreCassandra’s Euro Forecast
From the darkest post-World War II trials, of Nazi war criminals in Nuremburg, came a key feature of modern international diplomacy, the use of simultaneous interpreters housed in little booths to translate what people speaking...
Read MoreMisconceptions
Friday’s selloff was triggered by two misconceptions and the prospect of a long weekend, not just here with President’s day, but also in China where the New Year (of the Tiger) begins Sunday....
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