Hedge funds gripped by crisis of performance - FT.com

If you think your hedge fund has been lagging the market, you're not alone.  Apparently its gotten harder to beat the market.  Not that its ever been easy but this seems to bear out what I have…


Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m - The Next Web

About an hour’s drive from Salt Lake City, lies Utah’s Powder Mountain. The once sleepy mountain town is about to be reinvigorated as a destination for the world’s most talented creators, artists,…


The odd genius of Michael Dell

Dell is going down the tubes.  Everyone knows that.  Just look at the stock.  It's empirical, blunt, and definitive.  Michael Dell has billions invested in the Company he founded.  In order to save…


The Worst Investment Strategy Of 2013

Courtesy of Business Insider The Worst Investment Strategy Of 2013.


China Passes U.S. to Become the World’s Biggest Trading Nation - Bloomberg

China Passes U.S. to Become the World’s Biggest Trading Nation By Bloomberg News - Feb 9, 2013 6:26 AM MT China surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s biggest trading nation last year as measured…


US Health Lags The Developed World - Business Insider

In their efforts to block health care reform, politicians often claim that the U.S. has the best health care system in the world.  As such, we shouldnt tinker with it.The evidence, however, points to…


Warning- don't read on an empty stomach

Crony Capitalist Blowout In praising Congress's huge new tax increase, President Obama said Tuesday that "millionaires and billionaires" will finally "pay their fair share." That is, unless you are a…


Pension Pulse: The End Is Here?

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2012 The End Is Here? Noah Barkin of Reuters reports, Euro doomsayers adjust predictions after 2012 apocalypse averted: Back in May, as the euro zone veered deeper into crisis,…


WSJ/NBC Poll: Majority Favors One-Party Control - Washington Wire - WSJ

Everyone is anticipating and October surprise.  This could be it.  Markets have discounted an Obama win but not an end to gridlock. By Danny YadronGetty A majority of voters want one party to control…


Setback Leads Romney to Reinvention - NYTimes.com

By MICHAEL BARBAROPublished: August 29, 2012 99 Not long after Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race in early 2008, a titan of New York finance, Julian H. Robertson, flew to Utah to…