There are so many reasons that require international perspective as your investment horizon expands. And needless to say, it can be difficult to gain perspective by sitting home. Debbie and I have found after repeated trips that the world comes to Paris! More than any other international base we would wish to consider, Paris stands […]
Archives for November 2017
You’ve Read the Last Issue of Intelligence Report: Back to Investors Yield: Part II
“Well I remember the mood of euphoria that gripped the stock market back in the holiday season of year-end 1965,” writes Dick Young in his September 1987 issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report. “I had just entered the investment business and was a broker at a Boston based member firm of the New Your Stock […]
Hillary Clinton’s Dirty Tricks
Put aside the intrigue of British spies, Kremlin agents, legal cutouts, hidden bank accounts and what we have with the Steele Dossier is “one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history. It was perpetrated by Team Clinton and yielded a vast payoff for Hillary’s campaign,” writes Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. The Democratic National […]
Will the Real World Wide Web Please Stand Up?
Roughly 50% of the world remains without reliable high-speed connectivity, including rural America, Europe and Asia. OneWeb, a corporation backed by over a billion dollars in investments, hopes to change that soon by bringing 3G communication to every part of the globe with its constellation of satellites. OneWeb has raised over $1.7 billion dollars from […]
What Did Election Day 2017 Really Mean? Not What You May Think
At The American Conservative, Ron Faucheux lays out the important takeaways from the elections held on Tuesday. They may not be what you think. Democrats are gleeful over Tuesday’s elections. They should be. They won all three statewide races in Virginia—capturing the governorship by a wider than expected margin—and won impressive state legislative gains. They […]
Best Paris Bistros
Around the corner from the great Hotel Lutetia in the 6th arrondissement, sits Le Cherche Midi (22 Rue du Cherche-Midi), one of Paris’ best bistros.
The Cost of America’s Forever War: So Far
A well known measure of the cost of America’s most recent wars in the Middle East is around $1.5 trillion. That’s true if you’re only interested in what the Department of Defense has spent, but that doesn’t actually measure the cost to Americans of prosecuting the war. To get a better measure of what the […]
Keep Buggering On: How Winston Churchill Won the War
In The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, authors William Manchester and Paul Reid explain the resilience of Winston Churchill in the face of setbacks. His unwavering spirit led the U.K. through the war and on to victory. Richard Aldous, writing about the book in The New York Times in 2012 said: […]
Doubling Down on Government’s Biggest Failure
New Jersey has elected a new governor, Phil Murphy. Mr. Murphy, from the Democratic Party, has not previously held office. He is smart (Harvard, Wharton Business School), energetic (Goldman Sachs), and a committed progressive. New Jersey is in trouble, writes Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian. New Jersey’s biggest problem is clearly its way-underfunded public […]
You’ve Read the Last Issue of Intelligence Report: Back to Investors Yield
“Well I remember the mood of euphoria that gripped the stock market back in the holiday season of year-end 1965,” writes Dick Young in his September 1987 issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report. “I had just entered the investment business and was a broker at a Boston based member firm of the New Your […]
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