Risk on.. China Approves Plan to Build New Roads to Boost Economy. Bloomberg Facebook Investors Know Exactly Whom to Blame. Bloomberg  SOTD – Smokey Robinson – Who’s Gonna Take The Blame. Youtube Don’t be rude. Tony Blair brokers Glenstrata deal. FTAlphaville Gary Shilling: 6 Asset Classes to be Bullish About. PragCap Putin looks east. Bloomberg The House That Hova Built. NYTimes

Draghi-Day: ECB agrees new bond-buying plan. Reuters Russia is stockpiling gold. Marketwatch Indian Tycoon Seeks 40-Fold Payout In African Gas Deal. Bloomberg China’s New Richest Man Revealed, Living Off Just $20 Per Day. Bloomberg Transcript: Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver’s Speech to Canaccord Genuity Corp., Sept 4, 2012. Republic of Mining Qatar Imperils Big Merger… Continue Reading

September 2012 Outlook. PIMCO Gross: Gold a Better Investment Than Bonds, Stocks. Bloomberg The Doer – Robert Friedland. National Post Brazil to boost import taxes again to help local industry Reuters Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right. Marc Cuban Why Asia’s Rich Are Wary of Private Bankers. Businessweek What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? NYTimes

Teenage angst – The implications of China’s slowdown. Economist Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment Faces Rigorous Scrutiny. China Briefing How China’s Approach Beats the West’s in Africa. HBR Institutional investors quicken shift to alternative investments. Pensions & Investments Mohamed El-Erian: Back-to-School Letter to the US Congress. Project Syndicate Cash-flush Canadian banks shop for acquisitions. Globe and Mail Multinationals Stake… Continue Reading

I began to wonder about Frank Giustra ten years ago when he assembled a massive lot on my grandparent’s street in West Vancouver and built a spectacular waterfront home. Giustra had come from the investment industry I learned, where my dad and three uncle’s have worked for over 30 years. But he was unlike us,… Continue Reading

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

QOTD: “Under promise and over deliver is smart. Over promise and over deliver is talent.” D’Arcy Stuart, Odgers Berndtson Kansas Farmers Prepare to Plant Winter Wheat in Driest Soil Since 1991. Bloomberg Carlyle Group to Buy DuPont Unit for $4.9 Billion. CNBC RBC, CIBC and TD hike dividends as profits surge. Financial Post.  18 brilliant… Continue Reading

QOTD: “You hang around for as long as I have and they start giving you awards… Twenty years earlier they wanted to put you in jail.” Peter Brown, Chairman of Canaccord, BCBusiness George Kalmar, Prominent Toronto Businessman and Holocaust Survivor, “Who Arrived With A Pregnant Wife and Just $7.50 In His Pocket” Passes Away Peacefully At The Age of… Continue Reading

Cameco Acquires BHP Australian Uranium Deposit For $430 Million. Globe and Mail Harper’s Chief of Staff Faces Conflict of Interest Questions Over Barrick Gold Links. Financial Post “Electricity is the Only Commodity in the World That Isn’t Really Stored…When Storage Becomes Cheap and Massive, ‘The Impact Will Be Huge.'” Bloomberg Some Suggest Putin’s Net Worth… Continue Reading

QOTD: “This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong Iconic Astronaut Neil Armstrong Passes Away. Fox News Hedge Funds Moving Back Into Commodities. Bloomberg Cameco buys while uranium valuations are low. Financial Post Hertz Buying Dollar Thrifty For $2.6 Billion In Cash. Bloomberg. New York Times’ About Group Moves… Continue Reading

Ticklin’ the ivories… One Giant Step for a Man: R.I.P. Neil Armstrong. AllThingsD Key voice urges China to gird for tough times. Vancouver Sun Why wood pulp is world’s new wonder material. New Scientist Conrad Black on Paul Ryan: How one man transformed a presidential campaign. National Post Graydon Carter: Bankstas in the Age of Money. Vanity Fair… Continue Reading

Greg Weldon’s Macro Market Update Audio. Weldon Financial Greg’s update focuses solely on Gold and Silver, with perspective on … … Gold’s med-term technical breakout … Gold’s longer-term technical position … the decline in the US Dollar Index … Gold ‘priced-in’ Eurocurrency … Gold ‘priced-in’ Yen … the new RECORD HIGH in Gold ‘priced-in’ Brazilian Real… Continue Reading

Lived November 29, 1956 – August 23, 2002 #2 Man at Polygon Homes, British Columbia’s largest home builder Ten years ago today Polygon Homes Executive Vice President Rick Genest was tragically killed when a boulder fell on his car while driving to his summer home in Bridge Lake, BC. In the 45 years of his… Continue Reading

Meet the Israeli middleman said to have ‘stripped and flipped’ First Quantum’s DRC mine. Mining Good news. Some fees for the street. Sandstorm Gold increases bought deal to $130 million. Yahoo Gold Fields CEO: Reduction in Guidance, Two Operations Are Struggling(video). Bloomberg A Grandmother “Whose Birth Date Could Not Be Confirmed”, Discovered As Brazil’s Wealthiest Woman, Controlling a… Continue Reading

Enjoy the day… Flipping Banks & Thoroughbred Horses—Billionaire Gerald Ford(not ex-president) Tells His Multi-Decade Story. Bloomberg  Law of the Jhungle – Raise a glass for one of India’s best-known investors. Economist “Self-Storage Firms Making Stinking Profits—At A Time When Many Traditional REITS Are Not Working”. Economist Where Have the Mom & Pop Investor Gone? dlvr.it/21j9MR $$… Continue Reading