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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Bloomberg - Amazon as a Value Stock? Believe It - Matthew A. Winkler 7/9 FT - Japan is nervous about its energy security - Nick Butler 7/8 * "The country's new national plan puts nuclear power back in the picture." NYT - Inside China'
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If you were only to read one thing… WSJ - The Tragedy of Venezuela - Anatoly Kurmanaev 5/24 * "Last weekend, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro dragged his Socialist government into a third decade in power by winning elections that were boycotted by the opposition, ignored by most of his countrymen
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Bloomberg Gadfly - Users Built Facebook's Empire, and They Can Crumble It - Nir Kaissar 3/26 FT - It is Venezuela's crisis that is driving the oil price higher - Nick Butler 3/25 * "While the Maduro-military alliance holds, output is likely
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If you were to read only one thing… NYT - 110 N.F.L Brains 7/25 * "Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association."
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Perspective Yahoo Finance - Business Insider: Here's where Americans are moving to and from - Andy Kiersz 6/22 WSJ - For Consumers, Less Debt but Lots of Bills - Justin Lahart 6/23 * "Americans’ finances are in the best shape they have been in years. As a group, U.S.
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Finance FT - Rise of private debt creates fears of a bubble - Robin Wigglesworth 4/13 * "Banks have in recent years been forced to retrench their operations, tamed by financial crisis losses, bridled by shareholders and tethered by more onerous regulation. Lending to smaller and mid-sized companies has been
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Venezuela having difficulties meeting its oil delivery commitments. REITs backing away from apartments. Chinese companies lending to the tune of $2tn where bankers have pulled back. Headlines FT - Alphabet opts to spell out its stock options 2/9. Google recently let slip that it will be treating stock based pay
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China's maritime footprint. Judicial independence in China - don't count on it. Music streaming to the rescue. Headlines NYT – Samsung Heir Faces Arrest on Charges of Bribing South Korea's President 1/15. It appears that no one is 'safe' if the arguably the
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Helicopter money coming to Japan? GMO on EU immigration and the Brexit. Hong Kong and China at a cross road. ECB coming up against its quantitative easing boundaries. Headlines * FT - BP draws line under Gulf spill costs 7/14. All told BP's costs from the Deepwater Horizon disaster