July 1, 2008
Many moons ago I wrote a piece for Men's Journal -- yes, that's just the kind of renaissance guy I am -- on the joys of cycle-climbing. I had originally planned on chronicling my effort to do the equivalent...
I like this quote from Andy Rappaport of August Capital about social investing -- the idea that you can do good via investing in social funds: A lot of socially responsible funds have this idea that they’ll provide a social...
So, the venture capital "asset class" is in crisis. Or at least that's what the NVCA is saying today as it rings the alarm bell asking for politicians, regulators, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, dogcatchers, presidential candidates, philatelists, etc., to do something...
I have various proprietary tools I have created to track layoffs, and they are all through the roof right now. Admittedly the tools have only been around for one economic cycle, but the explosion in layoffs I've been observing over...
Congress has a mind to save us all from speculators and their evil-doing ways in commodities markets. Trouble is, as the following Bloomberg figure shows, oil prices have ramped hugely over the last year despite the number of open contracts...
It's newly good to live in places like Williston, North Dakota. About one homeowner a day in such places is becoming a millionaire at current oil hyper-prices. They are, of course, the people whose houses sit over the newly...
