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Man does not live by bread alone.

And neither is the US stock market the only market out there.
But we usually tend to act as if it was the only one that counts. One of the many lessons I […]

In case you didn’t catch this, a curious exchange occurred way back on July 18th, 2008 on Google’s finance messageboard. It was not unlike the usual chatter that you are likely to read in this corner of the internet, full of mysterious innuendo, bold predictions and anonymity. But what made it stand out from the […]

There are just a few days left until we know who the next President of the USA will be. Here are two aggregations of multiple polls:

FiveThirtyEight is a relatively new site which has gained a lot of attention because of their methodology. They assign each poll a weight based on its historical track record, the […]

Somehow, for some strange reason a progressive tax system which is what the US has had and which it will continue to have, has been called a “socialist” system by the McCain campaign:

“His (Obama’s) plans are redistribution of wealth.. that is one of the tenets of socialism.”
But as anyone will readily attest, a progressive tax […]

Did you watch the third and final US presidential debates? To me it was just a replay of the other two. Each camp tried to score points by following a strategy. Obama by talking about issues and coming across as unflappable. McCain by attacking his opponent and coming across as angry and petulant. Unfortunately the […]