“You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.” Teller Reveals His Secrets. Smithsonian Photo: Jared McMillen / Aurora Select “Carlyle, which has produced average returns of about 30 percent over the past 25 years, is targeting… Continue Reading

China’s Hu Jintao clings to socialist economy in Mao nostalgia speech. Telegraph Investors are gorging on corporate bonds. Is an asset bubble being inflated? Economist France Wine Output Falls to 40-Year Low on Champagne, Beaujolais. Bloomberg Barrick Gold’s Former Chief Sees Virtue in Being Small. Bloomberg Top Pick: Brookfield Asset Management. Globe and Mail African hospitality: No… Continue Reading

Election day in the United States… “Politicians promise the earth to win over the electorate and then deliver much less.” How Will the Election Affect Investment Strategies. Institutional Investor Whoever wins the election will get to preside over a growing economy and look like a genius. The Next President Is Lucky. Slate “The principal fact for consideration in the… Continue Reading

Simplifying can show us what’s important and lead us to what matters. Learning from the legacy of Donald Judd and path of Leo Babuata as artists and executives alike. Photo: Untitled by Donald Judd Doing less is a popular thought process in business at the moment. The idea of trying to reduce distraction and get… Continue Reading

“No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.” George Bernard Shaw STRIKING is for plebs. Unions and industrial relations. Economist China’s economic destiny in doubt after… Continue Reading

Good morning, Millions Stuck in Dark, Cold. Bloomberg Asia’s green shoots allay global slump fears. Green shoots are sprouting across much of the Far East as stimulus begins to feed through, greatly reducing the risk of a deep global slump next year. Telegraph Photo:EPO McKinsey report: ‘Solutions-oriented’ assets to hit $2 trillion in 5 years. Pensions &… Continue Reading

“Unless EU leaders come up with a sustainable solution and cut the debt burden, everything is going to fall apart in Greece.” Greek death spiral raises heat for German-bloc creditors. Telegraph “Portfolio strategies should acknowledge bite-sized future returns and the growing risk that the negative consequences of misguided monetary and fiscal policy might lead to disruptive financial… Continue Reading

Happy Halloween… Berkshire Extends Housing Bet With Brookfield Venture. Bloomberg Norway Oil Fund Looks Into Factor Risk Model Embraced by Pimco. Bloomberg Centamin’s licence for flagship Sukari mine revoked by Egyptian court. Financial Post Is India’s Rising Billionaire Wealth Bad for the Country? NYTimes Ortega Tops Buffett With Zara Fortune of $53.6 Billion. Bloomberg Gary Shilling: Who Loses When Fed Keeps… Continue Reading

Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader ExxonMobil oil chief ‘assassinated’ in Brussels street. Telegraph Now is the time to reduce equity exposure. Ritholtz South Africa has made progress since becoming a full democracy in 1994. But a failure of leadership means that in many ways, South Africa is now going backwards. Over the Rainbow. The Economist Blackstone… Continue Reading

Petronas Rejection Casts Doubt on Cnooc $15.1 Billion Bid. Bloomberg Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. to spend at least $2 billion to buy an iron ore mine in West Africa. Bloomberg Interview: Oceanic Iron Ore Corp. Courts Asian Partners To Unlock Value At Hopes Advance. CEO Rick Rule Bullish On Uranium, Ag-Materials. King World News Fort Knox, an Impregnable… Continue Reading

In spite of falling iron ore prices, a group of well known insiders from Oceanic Iron Ore Corp have reached into their own pockets to move their Hopes Advance project in Quebec’s Labrador Trough forward. We had the opportunity recently to connect with Oceanic’s chairman and former president of Teck Resources, Steven Dean, and Oceanic’s president, Alan… Continue Reading

Richard Branson’s big idea for building a better version of capitalism. Economist How Strong Is the Art Market? WSJ Paulson Funds Said to Further Cut 2012 Losses Last Month. Bloomberg An Indian flash crash. FT Alphaville The love affair between the super-rich and London property is souring. CNBC How to Run Your Hedge Fund From Jail. Bloomberg Jamie Dimon on the… Continue Reading

Romney Takes First Debate. New York Times The end of the Great Migration: China’s workers return home. Marketplace Also: Free trade with China still a decade away, Brian Mulroney says. Globe and Mail What future for Egypt’s wealth? Al-Ahram BlackRock Leads Firms Poised to Win From Hedge Fund Ads. Bloomberg Billionaire Glasenberg Bets on Coal Rebound With Xstrata: Energy.… Continue Reading

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -Winston Churchill Lived from 1874 to 1965 British Conservative Politician and Statesman Prime Minister, 1940-45 and 1951-55

By James Kwantes, World of Mining Second in a series (Read Part 1 here) “Opportunity can go by in a day.” Norman Bell Keevil, Sr. Norman Bell Keevil was born on a Saskatchewan farm in 1910. In his first life, Keevil was an academic, studying math, chemistry and geology at the University of Saskatchewan before getting… Continue Reading