I just come back from Glen Alan on the 30th of Dec 2008. This was a one day turn around trip. That was all I can do. I had my bro driving at the local street. We went to pick up the key for apartment from the property manager. The apartment does not look that [...]
Misc notes for dec 2008
My notes for the Dec 2008 has a number of things that I would like to put down. This Zoho respond is a bit slow. It is probably because there are so many features and graphic icons come with this editor.
Elliot wave is the subject that I found really just a bunch of nonsense. The [...]
December 28, 2008. Year end view of CSPAN
“Walking Giant: America in the age of Jackson” David Reynolds
It is about small business men and spiritual in this age. Smith of Mormon is one of the archetypal characters in this age.
I miss this show many times. This is actually a balance historical view of the Jackson period. I have seen many authors written about [...]
memory of the past?
The Asian time online version of the current finance black hole that suck all the money from the Fed and Treasury dept does not seem to make any sense.
The explanation of the commodities price drop is a good one. It is all because of the deleveraging of the position from banks on hedge [...]
December 27, 2008. Grey Saturday?
Sword fish is a misnomer. Based on the figure in the example given by the website www.scanraid.com, I can’t make out the shape of sword fish at all. With all the imagination muster within me, I failed to see any sight of sword fish. X-wing is another name of this strategy. But the rectangle of [...]
December 27, 2008. Black Friday?
I was working on a number of things today and have some of them solved and done but not all of them. This is a hectic day for me. Today is the day after Christmas 2008. All the media reported is the sale depression year to year comparison of the same month. The percentage decrease [...]
December 24, 2008. Xmas eve activity?
I still have not decided what to take with me beside blanket and cooking utensils.
I need to finish the mortgage coupon mail out. The transfer on the Web does not seem to work for me so far.
I also need a power of attorney signed, notarized and mailed out.
Do I need to rent a Uhaul? [...]
December 22, 2008. Henry Liu, Catherine Gun -a whistle blower?
These social observers or econ-social writers have in mind to resolve any poverty problem and unemployment problem is always more foreign investments.
Is it really the recipe of economics development? Is that why countries around the world are poor and full of political uncertainties? This is the kind of spin that only the master of [...]
December 19, 2008. Classical economy?
economies except the US, which can produce dollars at will by fiat. Dollar hegemony emerged when the US discover how to transfer the cost of fiat dollar creation to her trading partners. This dollar-based international finance architecture allows the US to become the world’s largest debtor nation by assuming debts denominated in dollar that the [...]
December 17, 2008. Winter spin?
The problem of information overload is to eliminate the ones that irrelevant to the investment opportunity and the ones the effect the sentiment of the investors, in particular the ones the stoke fear in the heart of the investors.
The author tries to classify them into four buckets. Economics, politic, environment and exogenous factors. However, they [...]
December 16, 2008. Frustration and pressure of life?
This is a pain of the neck. She is so concern about the cosmetic of the house. She is simply freaking picky on these trivial. While the main concern is the structure of the house and the security of the house. She has no idea of this regard.
This is an over bearing situation. [...]
December 16, 2008. Henry Bloget. blame it on the greedy investrors?
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The Bernard Madoff scam is the latest bomb on Wall Street. What else lurking around the corner. This is how Wall Street Exuberance really does not make any sense. It only makes sense if this happen to be the outcome of the dog-eat-dog game.
According Henry Blodget in Atlantic monthly, “In the [...]
December 13, 2008. Richmond Manufacture Center trip?
The problem with this trip is the time is so tight. The program really reveals to the attendees anything hopeful and promising.
The primary is the only place where everyone would end up. The policy of hiring the old employees with experience first is a result of hard work from Union.
The place is so [...]
December 12, 2008. Sorrow of the empire?
The idea of having Chinese as the front of machine language comes to me out of the blue (while sitting in front of the machine at work.)This is a question I had many years ago. I was convinced that this is impossible task to use Chinese as the front end GUI. But the realization [...]
December 11, 2008. Mary Lynn Cramer?
Mary Lynn Cramer is a writer on social economic issue. Her writing reveals that reality is always favor the fat cat, business and industry instead of the consumers. The claim that consumers make up 70% of the GPD is just a red herring to the fact that the business community is still in control or [...]
December 10, 2008. Eithor/or Invetor again?
The Mumbai attack last week also put on spot the role Hindu extreme national party play in Indian domestic politic. The oppression Muslim living in India have to suffer is the key point people raise when asking why, and motive of this terrorism act in India. India role in Tibet resistance, the Bangladesh, the Sri [...]
December 09, 2008.Either/or Investment spin?
What has just crossed my mind? It was the feeling that there is nothing new to write about. Oh yes the experience to work in a tough place is a good experience for an aspiring writer.
Can it be true? There is nothing to write about. Well this is a matter of perspective. The people in [...]
December 08, 2008. Musing on Sunday
The meeting with the Shanghai later and his son second time makes me thinking. This is a very sophisticate woman from the city.
She likes heaping praises as soon as she has s chance. This is why V likes to meet her and buy her gifts. I have no intention to fall [...]
December 06, 2008. Clark winter and investment
NASA Godard center at Virgina is a high tech operation. The same can be said about the McLean VA for the CIA. So where is the brain power and technical power coming from? Recruits come from all over USA or it is coming from John Hopkins University, George Mason University, George Washington University?
Hight [...]
December 05, 2008. Money creation the new approach?
Economy of US is like a soup up small car that can run with so many horse power and high mile per gallon. This would not make the car last and would break down very quick.
This is unsustainable model of development for an economy. This is a new perspective of the growth oriented model of [...]
December 04, 2008. Misc business and finance musing
M & A turns out to be a loop hole to boost earnings and asset of a company on paper. It makes the balance sheet looks good based on the GAAP convention. M $ A is the only tool for a mature company to grow.
This is a practice that make the company looks good [...]
