When I bought my first Nikon professional digital camera 2-3 years ago, I was often smiled at condescendingly. Digital photography would never take over the professional arena. I always answered with the conviction that soon...

The Year of the Dolphin: www.yod2007.org

This will not help the cheerful creature much, as it is just one more feel-good action of our consumer society. I have had enough of on the one hand hearing about maximising...

In my regular perusal of the financial press, I read some articles about David Swensen a couple of days ago. I have now started to read his book "Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment", though it...

Via Zeit Blog - Category Economics - Herd Instinct - Robert von Heusinger

Greed is good... as was recognised already by the fictional character Gordon Gecko (played by Michael Douglas) in the film "Wall Street" from 1987....

I have discovered a very interesting Open End Certificate (Index Certificate SG0HP7) from the major French bank Société Générale, which is based on the Private Equity Total Return Index - PRIVEX -. Behind the PRIVEX lie the large...

The rich country Iceland, like the even richer Norway, wants to hunt whales again - for food. The island state has been committed to the Moratorium (International Whaling Commission) which sets the quota for commercial whaling to...

I can no longer understand the current developments on the worldwide financial markets. Dow Jones, FTSE, Dax etc. are reaching new record highs, despite the unsolved geopolitical problems still looming. The indicators that I know...

The largest producer of flash memory products - Sandisk -, is taking over the Israeli company Msystems -. I already reported on the Lexar-takover by Micron Technology in March 2006.

The market for flash memory has enjoyed...

The demutualisation of Standard Life Insurance from Scotland has been successfully completed today with their flotation. In my opinion, the flotation came much too late. As a ex-member (now shareholder) and customer of Standard...

Today, on the opening day of the World Cup in Germany, I am flying to Johannesburg in South Africa, where I will hopefully hear little about flanking, making pressure, going down the wings, penalties, closing off space, offside...