Lovely little column over @ the New Yorker The way Buffett runs his company, Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than eighty other companies outright, is similarly out of tune with the times. In the current stereotype of corporate acquirers, firms like Bain Capital load companies with debt, downsize their workforces, and strip them of assets. […]

My colleagues and I, specifically me,  have had to deal with a lot of rubbish in the past month with our former firm/platform slandering us for the silliest of reasons, non-fact based, purely emotions driven. For the time being we’ve decided to act proper and not bother mud slinging and throwing accusations around, despite the […]

Positives: I can’t find any! O__O Negatives: Fed hints at QE4. They still don’t get it. Japan’s gov’t calls for new elections where new leader will follow path of printing way to prosperity (though will be good for Japanese stocks). Japan’s GDP in Q3 contracts by 3.5% annualized. Chinese loan growth in Oct totals 505b […]

Positives: US Oct Payrolls increase a net 171k (est 125k), 184k (est 123k) of which in the private sector which is the most since Feb helped by an unexpected increase in mfr’g hiring. Thai consumer confidence increases Passenger traffic through Thailand’s 6 major airports hit another all time high Thai Apple fanboys rejoice at the […]