"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From an interview between Maria Bartiromo and Merrill CEO John Thain. This is the section that has financial blogs incredulous. Bartiromo: Will you need to raise additional capital? John Thain: …Unless you tell me where asset prices are going to…
Paul Kedrosky crunched the data and has it in map format. The cities are in a wide swath from Texas northeast to western New York. Interestingly, none are on the coasts or in the West and only a couple in…
Alex Steffens at World Changing thinks so, expanding on a NY Times article. The rising price of oil, possibility of supply chain reduction, the coming tax of levy on carbon, and the collapse of the Doha trade talks are all…
Water is the essence of life, sustaining every being on this planet. Without water, there would simply be no plants, no animals, and no people. But the global water supply isn’t just at risk, it’s already in crisis. Opens in…
The Sunday Times UK has an excellent, lengthy interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Published last May, it has had huge impact, the idea that unpredicted events can change everything…