Q: Who’s Right in the Mark Cuban/ David Stern NBA Feud? Time once again for our non-investment Friday blog. For those not familiar with my Friday blog, every Friday, I essentially blog about non-investment related topics, often business related in some sense, but sometimes not at all. Recently, David Stern fined NBA franchise Dallas Maverick’s [...]

December 8, 2006 – Here’s a short casual Friday post. As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, all toy stores will suffer a shortage of the most popular toys that your children will have asked for come Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc. This happens every single Holiday season. And for good reason. All toy stores [...]

December 7, 2006 – I must pre-qualify this blog entry as I’m writing it from a café, that unlike previous blogs about the direction of the U.S. dollar, I have not looked at any technical charts regarding the current weakness of the dollar before writing this. However, I will say that as weak as the [...]

December 7, 2006 – This blog entry is kind of a part II to my post about global warming opening up new shipping lanes in the Arctic Circle. Wang Shuguang, Director of the State Oceanography Bureau, in China recently stated: “in the past 20 years, the total output value of ocean industry has increased to [...]

December 4, 2006 – This month, Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, spoke at the Fourth Conference of the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, he noted that, “In informal terms, we are uncertain about where the economy has been, where it is now, and where [...]

December 2, 2006 – I’m sure that everyone who reads this, at some point and time, has been fed up with bank fees and paltry interest rates on savings accounts. The number one complaint I’ve always heard about banks is that the “fee you to death”. There’s a fee for going into a branch and [...]