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When it comes to investing in emerging markets, that’s one area in which you really should play it safe. Not only are you not familiar with any (or most) of the companies, but precisely because some of them may be operating in more politically and geographically unpredictable regions, risk is a higher factor.
With the added [...]
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Any American who looks at Canada and sees a mere reflection of the U.S. (or who thinks they already “understand” Canada or know all they need to know about it) is not only predictably ignorant but just as predictably rude. Apologies to the offended – please, do go on and prove that you are the [...]
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The US Dollar has sunk to 2.5 year lows. This is a significant time frame, as currently, Brent oil futures are also at 2.5 year highs. Outdoing both of these, gold is at all-time nominal highs, having closed April 2011 at $1563/oz.
Bernanke keeps saying that a strong dollar is in the U.S.’ best interests, and [...]
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Protests in Madison, Wisconsin (USA) would otherwise appear to be a home-grown, Tea-Partyish type of movement (indeed, Tea Partiers were a large contingent protesting in support of the bill) were it not for the past two weeks of protests that appear to be spreading (if not necessarily “escalating”) throughout much of the Middle East, and [...]
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Don’t freak out at the phrase “new world order:” this isn’t about conspiracy. The fact is that 2011 is likely to be the year that China most definitively transitions to first place as the world’s foremost economic power. And with China’s economic ascendancy, so follows the economic rise of China’s key trading partners, many of [...]
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Lots of trash-talking the “China thesis” lately. People (Americans) want to think that the U.S. is the only place that “real” innovation can happen, or at least that the U.S. is the only place that has and protects the “right kinds” of freedoms that will allow the “right kinds” of innovation to happen.
Sorry, but I [...]
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Readers have recently been asking where you can open a Chinese Yuan savings account. As I wrote in a previous post, Chinese Yuan savings accounts for Americans are available at the Bank of China (only in New York and Los Angeles so far).
In that previous post, I outlined the basic steps you need to know [...]
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