Year: 2011

The Lower Edge of Luxury

We are NOT all in this together. Pat and Ron Eastman, who live near San Jose, California, bought a 2007 Maserati Quattroporte sedan in February for $108,000, replacing a Mercedes S-Class  “This car is basically for play,” said Pat Eastman, a 56- year-old money manager. “It handles beautifully.” Her husband, Ron, a 58-year-old venture capitalist, …

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Keiser report interview

I’ve been tol that the interview on the Max Keiser Show will go out on Thursday. In case you don’t know, Max Keiser goes out on RT (Russia Today) which is on Freeview.  The show is then put up on YouTube fairly quickly thereafter.

China rules

Is China going to become more like the West or are we going to become more like China? It has been our arrogant assumption that China will, of course, become more like us.  Western politicians and pundits seem to be constantly telling China how it needs to open its markets in order to be more …

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