Well, I spent large portions of 2006 and 2007 telling you what I thought would happen in financial markets this year. I’m going to attempt to review some of those calls here and critique what we got right and what we screwed up royally. 1.) US residential housing would fall HARD check 2.) Bank failures would be more prevalent check [Continue]
Tired of reading the same lame crap in the my Blog About Uruguay? Here is a semi-complete list of Blogs about Uruguay from other points of view: A Cup of Mate a Day…: http://acupofmate.blogspot.com/A Girl And Guy In Uruguay: http://adamleandra.blogspot.com/A Maverick’s Odyssey: http://www.amavericko.com/A Year In Uruguay: [Continue]
As you may have surmised, I’m a big Ron Paul fan. It looks like his Boston Tea Party money bomb is probably going to raise around 6MM today. Of course, things are still too good in the US for someone like Paul to win….It’s interesting to see a stat that something like 61% of repubnicans [Continue]
It’s not just the seasons that are reversed here….it’s the academic schedule. I can almost hear alice cooper playing in the background. Not sure if kids still participate in the end-of-year book burning ritual in the states……but this isn’t the states. Granted, I don’t talk to many kids here….and I [Continue]
We took an interesting walk through parque rodo this morning. There was an amazing amount of activity from the top of the park, all the way down to the beach. A flea market with holiday (prechristmas?) shoppers took up a huge swath of the middle of the park. Down closer to the water, there were mate sippers, [Continue]
oops. UBS just announced *another* $10B in writedowns??? Blamed bad “subprime” mortgages of course. holy crap. anyone remember the good ole days when a “rogue trader” nick leeson lost a “mere” $1.4B and bankrupted Barings, a 233 year old bank? what’s it gonna take before the first of these goliaths get [Continue]
Today is the 4th anniversary of Golden Lotus and fuBarrio’s first date. (uh…oh yeah….and some dudes dropped some bombs on hawaii too) At the fuBarrio household as you might imagine however, the year 2003 is much more important than 1941. Dec the 7th each year starts a “murderer’s row” of special dates to be [Continue]
