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By definition, all economic "agents" want to make money. What is not trivial, however, is the degree of preference for one way over another. Economic equilibrium is founded on the so-called zero profit condition. Unlike what it sounds, that does not mean that profits (as the term is... More »

From The Daily Capitalist Several things are happening with unemployment which are interesting and indicative of where we are in the business cycle. There is no question that private sector jobs (nonfarm payrolls) are increasing. They were up by 231,000 jobs in the BLS's April report. Courtesy... More »

The real function of capital markets is to provide capital and liquidity for industries, companies, small business and individuals to run the economies. BUT the capital markets here are not doing that basic job but looting and robbing with both hands. All these websites, media,... More »

Source : http://www.moneyvistas.in/ \Click here to read about previous post on Shanghai.Which was clearly written about correction.Pivot ----- 2739Support ----- 2615/2542/2418Resistance ----- 2812/2935/3009From 2918 level we have seen 8.5% correction on Shanghai market.In next few... More »

AEterna Zentaris holds European rights to a potentially blockbuster cancer drug (perifosine) - the North American rights to perifosine are held by KERX (Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.). Keryx should be initiating two phase 3 trials for perifosine, one trial for "Multiple Myeloma", and... More »

A Value Guy looks at  Coca-Cola Co, KO5/9/2010 The Coca-Cola Company is the owner and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage brands. It also manufactures, distributes and markets concentrates and syrups used to produce nonalcoholic beverages. The Company owns or licenses and markets... More »

Several months ago in a period of two days I heard interviews with both Michael Lewis and Ken Feinberg. I have yet to read The Big Short but I did read the original article which prompted Lewis to write the book.  One of Lewis' points was that when the investment banks were... More »

I have now fairly large cash position is US dollars and Swedish Krona. I don't like the prospects of any fiat currency, but currently the track ahead for euro seems to bad that I'm willing to hold pretty much anything but it.I don't have enough balls to put everything on gold, so I have to... More »

A Value Guy looks at Siemens ADR5/9/2010  Siemens AG is a Germany-based company engaged in electronics and electrical engineering. The Company is an integrated technology company with core activities in the fields of industry, energy and healthcare. Siemens operates in more than 190... More »