Author: Vivian Lewis

Dear rss free blog,     When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,And the women come out to cut up what remains,Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brainsAn’ go to your Gawd like...

Dear rss free blog, Australia again followed Israel, raising its bank rate 0.25% to 3.75%. Here is a message about Kurzarbeit’s benefits and costs from Marc Chandler, of Brown Brothers Harriman, the surviving US investment...

Dear rss free blog,     Dubai is makhulah, to use a word that is probably not familiar to those in its souk, and its stocks and bonds are worth bupkas. (Souk is market in Hebrew and Arabic; makhulah is...

Dear rss free blog, Don’t buy Dubai. Normally after a market panic my speculative juices get flowing. But not over Dubai.Its overdone economic panic was fed by the loan repayment holiday announced just as the region closed...

Dear rss free blog,      Back in the USA, I want to apologize to those who sent me an e-mail via the www.global-investing.com website. This mail did not get forwarded by my Time-Warner roadrunner e-mail...

Dear rss free blog, We tend to take too seriously comments about there being something called Anglo-Saxon economics. The is no such thing as Anglo-Saxon economics, unless you are referring to the barter done by hunters in the...

Dear rss free blog, We need a woman heading the Senate as well as the House of Representatives. This is my reaction to the sexist proposal to slap an excise tax on cosmetic surgery to finance healthcare reform. We need women in...

Dear rss free blog, The World Gold Council is sponsored by the gold-mining industry. Its mandate is to develop the use of gold as an investment vehicle. The WGC sponsored the creation of what is now Streettrackers Gold, GLD, the...

Dear rss free blog, Sometimes policy interferes with policy. Here are some examples from the headlines. If “too big to fail” is the risk in banking, then slapping together failed banks with more solvent ones...

Dear rss free blog, Britain’s National Theatre is a People’s Cementbox built on the South Bank of the Thames in the heighday of Brutalist Architecture during the first post-War Labour govt. of the 1950s. So the...