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The Top Five Career Regrets. Harvard Business Review If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. ♫ Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke. Rolling Stone China Had Its Best Day In Years Last Night. Business Insider The Dumbest Thing You’ll Hear All Day. Reformed Broker The transparent DealBook conference. Reuters … Continue Reading

Fed Expands Asset Buying, Links Rates to Joblessness, Prices. Bloomberg “One of the most mysterious market phenomena is momentum – the tendency for fast-rising stocks to keep going up. How come such an obvious market anomaly is not arbitraged away?” The financial system: Market failure. Economist “The Chinese are hardworking, literate, relatively obedient and totally obsessed… Continue Reading

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: “We may find that the supercycle is still in rude good health next year as China cranks up construction again, and America turns the corner.” The world’s commodity supercycle is far from dead. Telegraph Josh Brown: “The stupidity of having such an obviously unbalanced economy is the more important discussion we should be having right now. The… Continue Reading

“We would urge you to keep faith.” A $10 Trillion Bet on China and India. HBR “Placement of op-eds is a standard part of the influence game, but it’s rare for readers ever to find out who is behind the curtain.” From Russia With PR. ProPublica Bond Investor Gundlach Buys Stocks, Sees ‘Kaboom’ Ahead. Bloomberg Will First Quantum launch… Continue Reading

“While the eurozone as a whole is roughly in trade balance, the EMU regime of austerity in the South without offsetting stimulus in the North is creating a contractinary bias, holding back global recovery.” Germany displaces China as US Treasury’s currency villain. Telegraph Gold Falls Just 1.3% Despite Massive, Odd 3.5 Million Ounce Sell Orders. ZeroHedge “Some people… Continue Reading

American financiers on the offer. Private-Equity Managers Make Moves as Tax Increases Near. Bloomberg Somali pirates buying condos? “When tremendous global wealth and economic uncertainty exist side by side, the remote nature of these markets is attractive to both illicit wealth and to rich buyers, many of whom favour authenticity and exclusivity over luxury and grandiosity.” The World’s Most… Continue Reading

Who’s Who in China’s New Communist Party Leadership Lineup. Bloomberg Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech. WaPo Can I call you Mel? Or is it Mr. Brooks? Vulture, Salon “Let me tell you this cute story. I had just met Alfred Hitchcock. I was really stunned. My God, he was a legend when I was just a… 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

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