Archive for June, 2008
End of Warren Buffet Era?
Warren Buffet is a skilled communicator in all aspects of life. Communication is the real key of leadership and has been key to Buffet’s long term success. Along with having the right investment strategy at the right time. However, in an age of rapid change and a restructuring of the world investment order Buffet’s buy and hold strategy may not produce nearly as good results in the future.
Warren communicates openly and frankly with his investors and makes sure that he can communicate effectively with the managers of a company before he buys it. In a global market that level of communication may be difficult to emulate when you may be interested in buying stock in a company located half a world away and immersed in an entirely foreign culture.
22Jun2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
America Ill Prepared For High Energy Prices
Energy prices are continuing to increase as the global demand for fossil fuels increases and our limited refining capacity is regularly disrupted by hurricanes and flooding. A major part of America’s current predicament is that America has not taken energy conservation seriously and has not planned ahead well. For example, part of the problem with high gasoline prices in the US is the lack of refining capacity. It has been over 30 years since a new refinery facility has opened in America.
Alternative fuels will only give a partial answer to our use of energy and to high energy prices. Energy prices are rising fast all over the world and likely will keep on increasing due to strong demand, especially from Asia. Even with such a strong incentive to move towards alternative energy there are important uses for oil that are difficult if not impossible to substitute.
14Jun2008 | taipan | 2 comments | Continued
Prime Minister Putin Boom Times in Russia
The Russian economy under Putin is characterized as a transition economy since the fall of the socialist system in the beginning of the 1990’s.
In principle the Russian economy is a market economy adhering to the basic freedom of enterprise and market based pricing mechanisms but the characterization of a transition economy refers to the many features that constitute the inherited socialist institutions still influencing the economy’s operation. Putin as Prime Minster is expected to call the shots in Russia just as forcibly as during his eight year highly successful term as President.
5Jun2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
Bernanke Rings the Forex Market Bell
The Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Ben Bernanke, rings the forex market bell at a speech he made yesterday by satellite TV to an economic conference in Barcelona Spain. Helicopter Ben finally spoke out about the sad condition of the US Dollar and said the following:
“In collaboration with our colleagues at the Treasury, we continue to carefully monitor developments in foreign exchange markets. The challenges that our economy has faced over the past year or so have generated some downward pressures on the foreign exchange value of the dollar, which have contributed to the unwelcome rise in import prices and consumer price inflation. We are attentive to the implications of changes in the value of the dollar for inflation and inflation expectations and will continue to formulate policy to guard against risks to both parts of our dual mandate, including the risk of erosion in longer-term inflation expectations.
4Jun2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
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