Monthly Archives: June 2011

Bubble Theory and the Madding Crowd

June 30, 2011
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In the investing world, we talk about bubbles. A bubble happens when stocks in a particular sector are over-hyped, and greed starts driving the market. In a stock market bubble, investors stop thinking about what they’re buying and start looking around them to see who else is buying it. Joe Investor sees a sizable...

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America’s Secret Elixir

June 28, 2011
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What has made the US so great? Free markets? Smart people? Capitalism? Democracy? A two party system? Silicon Valley? Cheap resources? Or was it having the reserve currency of the world since 1945? No, that would not have been enough. Was it taking that reserve currency off the gold standard on August 15th 1971?...

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Graphene “New Silicon” Discovery

June 22, 2011
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Dry ice fuels new computer revolution, delivering China a windfall and early investors a singular opportunity You can use dry ice for a lot – keeping a picnic lunch cool, generating fog for backyard karaoke. Now it’s about to revolutionize computing all over again. More important, it’s going to touch off a scramble for...

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