Tuesday June 3, 2014 The vertical take off and horizontal flying capability of the Osprey has been a long time in coming, after many initial failures. The idea was to combine VTO with the longer range flying capability of a fixed wing arircraft, All you had to do was make the props pivot 90 degrees,…

Friday May 30 2014 The markets  are proving they do what they want to do regardless of the news. While Congress and the PResident are more unpopular than ever, the market is quite popular. The next few days will tell us if indeed the markets are going higher still. Dow Break out or Fake Out,…

Memorial Weekend 2014 When we were still at St. Joe, I susggested our future lay not in Spain, Ireland, Romania, Germany or any of the other spots the rst of the faculty were taking students. Rather we should head to West Texas. BEcoming familiar with West Texas oil would likely be the key to a…

Memorial Weekend May 25, 2014 On the one hand, most of our students do not read the SA Express News. Hence they are not subject to uber leftist propaganda like the Page F1 Opinion Section, American Dream Needs a Wake Up Call. This is yet another call for more government intervention in the name of…

Tuesday May 13, 2014 Jim Rogers suggests China and Russia might be good bets now. Baron von Rothschild a couple of centuries back observed that you must buy when there is 'blood in the streets.'  Metaphoracially  that is the case now. Do you know Jim rogers?  

Wed April 30 2014 This article Wed April 30, 2014  My Facebook play was stopped out, here is why. As Marc Faber notes on Marketwatch this morning, it is too late to buy stocks but we may be too early to short as well, welcome to summer.    " title="" target="_self">looks at the Learning Style argument. It finds some…

Weekend April  6 2014 The paper's results are here; the SA Express News  credited an excellent Facebook campaign. They are right, take a look at how to do a Facebook campaign. Just put Good Time Charlie's iknot the search box on FB to see how they did it.  Clearly this is not a nutrition themed, get skinny campaign…  …

Tuesday April  1 2014 Mark ZUckerberg earned $1 in salary last year. But he cashed in options worth $3.3 Billion, that's Billion not Million. Today 's CEOs want call options. Attempting to boost the stock price by inflating or manging earnings has been the root of all evil at firms like Enron and Worldcom. I certainly don'…

Monday March 31 2014 Bernanke famously promsied to drop money from helicoptors if that was needed. Here is an update on the National Money Hole.

Weekend Facebook Makes a Virtual Bet Earth to Tech Investors, Facebook FB is now worth half as much at Berkshire Hathaway BRK. It that  a good bet? FB bought Instagram for $7156M, users are up from 30 m to 200 M. FB bought What's App for $19 B. Whats app allows one to avoid paying for SMS (short…