Global Post Enlarge JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A Chinese property developer has a lofty vision for a pokey suburb of Johannesburg. The plan? To turn Modderfontein, a dull, soulless area of semi-industrial sprawl, into the “New York of Africa,” with a financial…
Courtesy of Doug Short. The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the total price of the market…
by MN Gordon Economic PrismAn extraordinary occurrence took place last Friday. Congress let a temporary $5 billion food stamp stimulus from the 2009 Recovery Act expire. We can’t recall ever hearing of a federal program becoming smaller. Can you?…
Enlarge Smoke billows from Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh Sunni neighborhood on Oct. 25, 2013 during clashes with Alawite supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Sunni militants in Lebanon accuse the army of siding with supporters of the Syrian regime…
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Enlarge PARIS, France — Brian Spence looks at home amid the cardboard boxes of paperbacks and teetering stacks of books that crowd the Latin Quarter storefront of his Abbey Bookshop. Sipping maple syrup-sweetened coffee, the smiling Canadian fondly…
Enlarge HONG KONG — Around election season, American politicians are often charged with “China bashing” if they invoke the People’s Republic as a rival threatening US interests. China is America’s partner, critics retort. We should build trust…
Meson Capital Partners, LLC, a leading activist fund manager, has been conducting an intensive investigation into Odyssey Marine Exploration (“OMEX” … Read more
New Jersey billionaires who seek to revamp the state’s education system are again pouring money into a Jersey City election, with a Far Hills hedge fund manager donating nearly $10,000 to the four school board candidates backed by Mayor Steve Fulop…
In last week’s Security Weekly, Tristan Reed and I provided a little bit of an “inside baseball” look at how … Read more
Enlarge BERLIN, Germany — When Jürgen Rose was called upon to organize an operation in Afghanistan in 2007, the air force lieutenant colonel exercised the German soldier’s unique right to say no. He insisted that the use of six Tornado jet fighters…
Just last week, the question came again. It is a common one, sometimes from a former colleague in newspaperdom, sometimes … Read more
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Enlarge DAEGU, South Korea — For the past three years, the US has gone full force into its much-headlined fracking revolution, capitalizing on technological innovations to tap into enormous newly-exploitable reserves of oil and natural gas. The result…
Enlarge PRAGUE, Czech Republic — After a quarter century in the political wilderness, the unreformed Communist Party has a real chance of regaining a measure of political power for the first time since the Velvet Revolution ended its 40-year dictatorship…