Category Archives: Video

Happy Birthday to a True American Saint

Posted on January 15, 2011 by macromon
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Nonlinear Thinking: Volt’s Battery Capacity Could Double

Posted on January 11, 2011 by macromon

That’s what were talking about! A break through in battery technology will really change the world as we know it.   MIT’s  Technology Review reports the next generation of the Chevrolet Volt and other battery-powered cars are looking at electrode materials … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear thinking: Going Gaga Over Transformative Tech

Posted on January 10, 2011 by macromon

One of the great problems of asset bubbles is not only the creation of too much capacity, but the misallocation of resources.   Our good friend and market guru extraordinaire, Barry Ritholtz, wrote of one such case back in 2005,  during … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Thinking: The Coming iApp Economic Revolution

Posted on January 6, 2011 by macromon

2011 – The Year of the App This is freaking amazing!  It’s our sense that in five years Apple may well have reinvented itself into a mobile medical company, where an iPhone/iPad-type device becomes a medical clinic in, say,  a … Continue reading →

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Three Christmas Carols…

Posted on December 24, 2010 by macromon

   

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A spectre is haunting Europe

Posted on December 22, 2010 by macromon

This is what’s  going to blow up the Europe.   All the cash and backstopping in the world is not going to solve the political problem.   Jim Corr, a member of one of our favorite Irish bands, The Corrs,  nails … Continue reading →

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Why OPEC should fear $100 plus Crude

Posted on December 22, 2010 by macromon

This is very cool and the future, in our opinion.   We’re at the elbow of the technological exponential curve and just one key breakthrough in, say, battery technology and it’s off to the races.   What’s coming will be … Continue reading →

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Day of Reckoning for State and Local Governments

Posted on December 19, 2010 by macromon

A must view 60 Minutes on the fiscal disasters of state and local governments.  Meredith Whitney and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie weigh in.  Check it out. Click here for video

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All About Gold With Charlie Rose, James Grant & Co.

Posted on December 19, 2010 by macromon

Be sure to catch the must view Charlie Rose’s December 6 show on Gold with James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, John Hathaway of Tocqueville Asset Management,  and Peter Munk, chairman and founder of Barrick Gold. Click here … Continue reading →

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Euro Fracture: Germany’s House Party Revolt

Posted on December 15, 2010 by macromon

Go no further than the chart below to understand the resentment and anger among the German taxpayers who are being asked to clean-up the “House Party” of fellow EU members.   The chart shows the housing bubbles of Ireland and Spain … Continue reading →

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