Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter – Europe on the Brink – by John Mauldin – … Last week we looked at the precarious position of Japan … But Europe’s banks have been much more aggressive in funding emerging-market expansion than US or Japanese banks. [...]

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Since my son and I are soon driving south into Virginia and the Carolina’s on a trip, I have been paying attention to travel news. I see that Boeing unveiled its latest airplane, the 787 Dreamliner. Boeing says the Dreamliner is a lighter more durable airplane that will allow passengers to sit comfortably on the [...]

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  wilder1  Rebecca Wilder: A review of house price indices – Posted by Prieur du Plessis – This post is a guest contribution by Rebecca Wilder*, author of the of the News N Economics blog. – I compare three competing monthly home price indices: the S&P Case Shiller [...]

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To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,  

We wrote last issue about the misuse of the word awful, and we got this in response:   “Tuna-melts on sour dough are great, or as some would say, bad.”  The misuse of the word bad is another example of the ruination of our language and the decline of Western Civilization.  [...]

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