Shanghai

Apparently the world is ending because the mining boom is slowing down according to a group of economists who I also believe have been predicting the same thing since 2000. And whilst, economists predict the end of the world politicians tell us that its all beer and skittles. Not certain who I would distrust less…

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SEC Study

Apparently the SEC – that is the Yank version of ASIC. You know the organisation that has yet to indict, convict or even spank in a non fun boarding school way anyone responsible for the bacchanalian orgy of theft and misconduct that is Wall Street. Well these clowns have put out a study that apparently…

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IPO’s

I was sitting reviewing the farce that is both Groupon and Facebook and marvelling at the ability of markets to destroy shareholder wealth. Although it must be said that anyone who invested in either of these two thinking that they were viable businesses should take their remaining funds and invest in some serious therapy. After…

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Dow

A bit of commentary has been filtering through the gooogle box about how the market looks like this or that and how it should now do such and such. Most preeminent in this chatter is that the Dow seems to have a block at about 13,300 and because the market has not instantly gone to…

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