There’s a profile on the Zero Hedge blog ( other bloggers are mentioned) in New York magazine. I’d like to say it’s a nice profile, but the writer commits the typical Mainstream Media error of false equivalence.
Here’s the false equivalence. Zero Hedge played an important role in exposing Goldman Sach’s flash trading scam, so [...]
From the monthly archives:
September 2009
I have a new video up for UncommonWisdomDaily.com today. If you have trouble watching the video, or you just want to read it in transcript form, I’ve posted a PDF here:
http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/brodrick-uwd-video-092909.pdf
Here is a link to a great article that describes the entrepreneurial enthusiasm that dominates Chinese business.
“That word - growth, GROWTH! - is spoken in bold letters and with exclamation marks here.”
The slowdown in the U.S. economy is affecting the global tourism. For example, tourist arrivals in Thailand are down by 14% in the first 8 months of 2009.
I’m having an excellent time at the Resource Investment Conference in Toronto. I spoke to a standing-room only room yesterday, and what a great group. Such intelligent questions! The investors who come to Toronto are sharp!
I saw some other good presentations as well. Later, we went to dinner. I and a friend stopped at The [...]
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It’s starting to look like the Fed’s going to need a skyscraper-full of new printing presses …
In a statement released yesterday, the Federal Reserve said,
“To provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets, and to improve overall conditions in private [...]
Here are some charts you should keep your eye on. Crude oil sold off hard yesterday and looks to be continuing the down-move this morning.
Now let’s take a bigger-picture look at a chart of crude oil.
The 20-day moving average is about to cross below the 50-day moving average, a visual representation of the fact that [...]
In Red-Hot Commodity ETFs, I recommended subscribers bag remaining gains on iShares Silver Trust (SLV: 16.7782 +0.71%) and iShares Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration Index (IEO: 56.14 +0.09%). They’d already been stopped out with gains on the second half of their PowerShares DB Gold Double Long ETN (DGP: 26.85 0.00%). Why am I [...]
Here’s one of those lawsuits that gives Equal Employment Opportunity Commission a bad name. Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued because its corporate dress code doesn’t allow for Muslim headscarves. As the story explains …
Is the company practicing discrimination if it won’t hire a young woman who covers her head for religious reasons? Yes, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [...]
