Quiet, Understated, Marathon-Running Retail Banker Antony Jenkins Brought In To Run Barclays. Bloomberg Scotiabank Makes $3.13B No-Frills Bet on ING. Financial Post After Bloody, Violent Strike, Lonmin Miners & Management Make Amends, Prepare To Resume Mining Operations In S.A. Bloomberg SkySurf, Founded By Ottawa Businessman Raed Almasri, Bought Canadian Air-To-Ground Internet Service Rights For $2.1… Continue Reading

by James Kwantes “In a world of steel-eyed death and men Who are fighting to be warm, Come in, she said, I’ll give ya Shelter from the storm.” Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (1975) by James Kwantes Steel-eyed death? Not quite, but speculative investors are bruised and bloodied. And Venture investors are certainly fighting to… Continue Reading

Here’s what I took away from the headlines this morning: Barrick in talks to sell Africa stake to China Gold. See also – why? and Gold expected to pull out of slump. Globe and Mail 5 Founders Who Came Back to Rescue Their Companies. Fiscal Times

The creative lives a helpless life. As an artist, I find more and more that it’s less about making images than it is about managing fear. The truth is when you are sitting there trying to start a new piece of artwork it’s not lack of ideas or skills to pull them off that stops… Continue Reading

Private Saskatchewan uranium exploration concern expands.

Business risks facing mining and metals 2012 – 2013 (photo:E&Y) Link directly to the report now. I wanted to bring your attention to an informative report put out by Ernst & Young on the current state of M&A within the mining sector (see link below).  Some highlights of the report include: Due to increasing capital… Continue Reading

Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill. HBR Glenn Hubbard: The Romney Plan for Economic Recovery. WSJ Berkshire Benefits As Buffett Wagers On U.S. Housing. Bloomberg China Slowdown Forcing Discounting At Gome To McDonald’s. Bloomberg Fareed Zakaria: Capitalism, not culture, drives economies. Washington Post Bernanke Is Bluffing – go-tst.com/cGFRc by @pmorici1 — Jim Cramer (@jimcramer)… Continue Reading

Gross v. Fuss Bond heavyweights take opposing Treasury views. Investment News 1) Cultivate the Golden Contact List. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bankers. Vanity Fair Disproves conventional wisdom that the dollar never lost any purchasing power until it went off the gold standard in 1971. Why the U.S. Dollar Is Not Going to Zero Anytime Soon.… Continue Reading

Romney Should be Proud of Private Equity: Kravis. CNBC Ray Dalio’s Q2 Bridgewater Letter Is Out: Here Are The Highlights. Business Insider Blackrock issues downbeat outlook. Financial Times Blackstone Names Baratta as Global Private Equity Head. Dealbook Continuing commodities super cycle not all about China any more. Mineweb The 10 Tallest Skyscrapers That Are Being Built Right… Continue Reading

Last day here… Danng, stock moving nicely. #dyodd Canamex Resources shares jump on Nevada gold find. Reuters GoldQuest (GQC : TSX) – Intersects 159 M Grading 4.5 g/t Au and 1% Copper. MarketWatch Goldman chief Blankfein: Investing in America produces the best return. Politico Euro Wastes no Time with Bernanke’s Silence. Ashraf Laidi Why it sucks to… Continue Reading

Notable Libertarian Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Tells Off Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, says the company has no idea how to invest its money. CNNMoney via KB Wealth effect: How we’ll feel impact of lower commodity prices. Globe and Mail My young friend Brian Wong (who gave me some of the best advice I ever received in 2009… Continue Reading

Gross Says U.S. Nearing Recession as BlackRock Sees Fed Step. Bloomberg Bernanke Ready to “Throw in the Towel on Inflation”: Jim Rickards. Yahoo Finance Europe Is Over. Now It’s All About The US. Business Insider Stock Buybacks that Wasted Investor Money. CNBC Questioning Peter Munk’s influence at Barrick Gold. (Journalist to expect beehive via Fedex… Continue Reading

Foreign Purchases of Canadian Securities Reach Record. Bloomberg A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google. Dealbook Contrary Indicator. The Globe’s hatin on mining stocks. Globe and Mail Otto Rock, Keir Reynolds and Callaghan himself with more on BarkerVaudeville. Enbridge brand can be repaired: analysts. Financial Post Four Reasons the Hedge Fund Industry Is… Continue Reading

Pimco’s Gross Forecasts U.S. Growth At 1.5% Over Decade. Bloomberg Four Real-World Investing Rules That Should Be Taught in Schools. Minyanville Conrad Black: BRIC’s spectacular rise, not so spectacular after all. National Post Lundin Mining to invest up to 750mln euros in Portugal-minister. Reuters What the U.S. Can Learn From Australia’s Coal Mines. Bloomberg Billionaire VC Vinod… Continue Reading

And it’s Friday the 13th… QE, or not QE? An assessment of the most controversial weapon in the central banker’s armoury. Economist “Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths.  It represents the path to big money.  The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false,… Continue Reading