Author: Vivian Lewis

Dear rss free blog,       For many years I was addicted to reading “Spengler” on Asia Times on-line. This Spengler (ohne Oswald) wrote about the decline of the west with a more modern mordant...

Dear rss free blog,       Should you be thinking of making a donation to assist the Haiti earthquake relief effort, I want to suggest doing it through an organization called Partners in Health...

Dear rss free blog,      Chinese data showed that it ended 2009 with record monthly imports of crude oil and soybeans and a strong appetite for iron ore and copper. Chinese exports soared 17.7% vs a forecast...

Dear rss free blog,     Your editor has a 10-year Treasury bond coming duethis month, an inflation-indexed one on which I pay Federal but not state and local tax. It has not been a brilliant investment, because I...

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Dear rss free blog,      The weatherman predicted 1 to 3 inches of snow today and the white stuff is falling as I write. The ability of forecasters to get short-term predictions right does not mean anything...

Dear rss free blog,      Under Internal Revenue Service pressure, the Big Three Israeli banks have told all US residents with Israel bank shareholding accounts to sell all securities held or close them....

Dear rss free blog,      Here is a note which I am posting with a question: can this go on?      Senior NASDAQ OMX officials today announced that a record 33 Chinese companies, the most of...

Dear rss free blog,      The main reason I am resisting the pressure to do forecasting for the year which has just begun is that I cannot predict what the Fed is going to do when. Unlike the economics...

Dear rss free blog,     I gave the wrong ticker symbol for Japan Small Cap Fund. It is JOF not JEQ. Apologies.      Sayonara,   P.S. That should read 2010.Visit our Online Sidewalk Sale at...