March 16, 2014
“WE GENERALLY MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS BASED ON INTUITION, not by subjecting every single option to extensive scrutiny, nor by making snap judgments… Intuition can be seen as a series of unconscious processes that take place in our brain, which... Continue
Weekly Report 14-11
March 12, 2014
THE ARTIFICIAL ‘STIMULUS’ IS “DOING PLENTY TO BOOST THE STOCK MARKET, but not so much for the American economy in general… If we were truly in a ‘recovery,’ we should see it in people’s incomes, home sales, holiday sales, and... Continue
Weekly report 14-10
March 2, 2014
COMPANY SECURITY BREACHES HAPPEN PREDOMINANTLY BECAUSE OF EXECUTIVES who have “job pressures, busy schedules, and an attitude that they are above the rules.” A broad survey of small, medium and large businesses found major cause to be absence of “patience... Continue
Weekly Report 14-09
February 23, 2014
THE ‘BIG MAC INDEX’ is an annual gauge of foreign purchasing-power-parity – a measure of whether currency exchange rates are realistic – based on the price of a comparable item everywhere: the Big Macburger which last month averaged $4.62 across... Continue
Weekly Report 14-08
February 16, 2014
FOR A BRILLIANT PERSPECTIVE ON HOW & WHY OUR ECONOMY WORKS (OR DOESN’T) and where the cycle is headed, a 30-minute animated course in simple English, absolutely worth your attention: http://www.economicprinciples.org Also, for a very clever 3-minute simple animated... Continue