iq business

Subscribe to feed Latest Entries

The Financialization of Precious Metals

Posted by Walsh
Walsh
Administrator has not set their biography yet
User is currently offline
on Tuesday, 27 March 2012
in Markets

Disclaimer - I am not a gold investor, nor a gold bug. I am merely curious about the price behavior of precious metals ETFS like GLD and SLV.

If you follow precious metals, eventually you stumble upon, "The...

Tags: Untagged
1 vote
Hits: 121 0 Comments

N.E. Asia Going Down for the Demographic Count

Posted by Walsh
Walsh
Administrator has not set their biography yet
User is currently offline
on Saturday, 17 March 2012
in Uncategorized

All good things must come to an end, as the FT outlines in this article. And so too will the population growth of N.E. Asia. Japan is already in decline. The Japanese headcount is expected to shrink from 130mm to 100mm by 2050, with all the commensurate externalities - higher dependence ratio, so...

Tags: Untagged
1 vote
Hits: 87 0 Comments

If the SEC Cannot Send Corzine to the Slammer, then "Securities Enforcement" Joins the Ranks of Phrases like "Military Intelligence"

Posted by Walsh
Walsh
Administrator has not set their biography yet
User is currently offline
on Thursday, 15 December 2011
in Markets

 

Seriously....
What he has done is a crime. The shareholders lost everything, the bond holders will probably lose, the employees lost, and the customers may or may not escape unscathed. This guy is testifying that he has, "Done nothing wrong", and in the strictest sense, perhaps he has...

Tags: Untagged
1 vote
Hits: 229 0 Comments

Foxconn and China Manfacturing

Posted by Walsh
Walsh
Administrator has not set their biography yet
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 23 November 2011
in Uncategorized

A great series of articles by TechCrunch about Foxconn and their +1mm manufacturing city in southern China.
http://techcrunch.com/tag/future-of-foxconn/

Owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision, Foxconn manufactures for major major hardware makers, most notably Apple. The maker of iPhones, iPads, and other apple objects of worship has built a strong manufacturing brand, and commands...

Tags: Untagged
1 vote
Hits: 239 0 Comments

Why Systems Investors are Glad David Einhorn Killed it with Green Mountain Coffee

Posted by Walsh
Walsh
Administrator has not set their biography yet
User is currently offline
on Thursday, 10 November 2011
in trading

 

Often I hear people tell me, "Rules-based trading has no future. Eventually, the computers will compete with each other to the point of no profit". They usually go on to tell me about how smart people like Greenlight Captial founder David Einhorn (and he *is* a smart guy - make...

1 vote
Hits: 237 0 Comments