September 13, 2013Uncategorized Friday Photo: Ad in HK for Australia’s Labor Party I don’t know how much longer they will keep this ad up after having lost the election last week, and also haven’t […]
September 12, 2013blockchain Bitcoin next to Beachcoin Imagine two wealthy, autonomous island nations in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One day, more due to boredom than Bernanke, both […]
September 12, 2013Uncategorized TED list of the world’s most walkable cities Nice to see TED re-awaken a focused debate on the importance of walkability of cities, but their recently published list seems terribly […]
September 11, 2013Uncategorized Remembering 9/11 with an eye on the future Today is a business day in most of the world, even in the nation attacked 12 years ago which officially marks it […]
September 9, 2013Uncategorized Puerto Rico now over 2x Philippines in bond yield In early 1898, Spain still controlled islands in both the East Indies and the West Indies that still qualified it as an […]
September 6, 2013Uncategorized Friday Photo: “Golden Pagoda in Rangoonβ by Hiroshi Yoshida Similar to the Asterix cartoon and the 1970s Shanghai photo posted a few weeks ago, I wanted to continue the habit of […]
September 4, 2013Uncategorized If the world’s most populous nation hadn’t split up… In 1947, the land of British India (not including Burma, whose then 9 million split off in 1937) was home to about […]
September 3, 2013Uncategorized Gold inflation hedge works well in India and Malaysia, but poorly in Singapore or Japan I have long said that gold is an ancient but outdated hedge against inflation. Β Yes, in theory the amount of gold in […]