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Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...s." But the unsettling part about these numbers is that Goldman is back to its old tactics of investing in high-risk trading and investing in everything from mortgages to commodities and underwr...
Rosé
in Celebrate Wine, on July 12, 2009
...n Rosés. And since they don't receive much press, I thought I'd pick up the story... Rosé wines are perhaps the most versatile, food-friendly wines around. They have had an image problem to ov...
ETF und Indexfonds - vergleichen lohnt sich!
in Das Börsen Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...sind Investmentfonds. Sie folgen einer Anlegerstrategie die im englischen als "Index Investing" bezeichnet wird. Das bedeutet, dass solche Anlage durch ihre Zusammenstellung einen bestimmten...
Why Do We Get Hangovers (and What to Do About It)
in Celebrate Wine, on July 5, 2009
I love wine: red, white, and rose' (okay I lean more toward red), sweet or dry (dry is better). And I know my limits. So hangovers rarely happen to me. But on those rare occasions when I wake up with a little pain in my head and a case of dry mouth, like most people I spend a little time wonde...
Chianti Rufina
in Celebrate Wine, on June 29, 2009
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Tuscany is a place blessed with some of the world's best grapes. Sangiovese grapes. And they make some of the world's best wine, IMHO.
Deb Harkness had a post recently on a 2005 Marchesi de' Frescobaldi Chianti Rufina Nipozzano Riserva. "Cherry aromas and flavo...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...ght be opportunities for growth. Don't cut the marketing budget, hold on to the talent and keep investing in R&D....
Three White Wines: Gary Vaynerchuk
in Celebrate Wine, on June 20, 2009
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Wine personality Gary Vaynerchuk had a good program earlier this month on Three White Wines that have been getting a lot of attention: Simone Sauvignon Blanc 2008 from Chile, Nobilio Ico...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... month, Bloomberg reported about the mafia's money laundering and using its hoard of cash for investing and lending money to those who can't get it from the banks. As reported here , Italy...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ard these people have been hurt by the crime. Consider this: "We are in our mid 60s and began investing directly with Madoff in 1993 after he had been investigated by the SEC. Madoff's crime...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...
On the Shores of Lake Geneva...
in Celebrate Wine, on June 13, 2009
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Jaunted had a piece recently that looks like a great vacation idea - wine tasting in Switzerland, in an area where the vineyards are a UNESCO world heritage site.
It's called The Lavaux Vineyard Terraces. Thirty kilometers of UNESCO World Heritage site stretch along the...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
... 15% since inception in March 2008.
"We are convinced that there are better opportunities for investing in sectors or artists that are currently not being 'hyped'; but rather recognised ...
Age and the Australian Riesling
in Celebrate Wine, on June 7, 2009
...ad of a cork. And there's some healthy skepticism around about whether they mature into quality wines.
Dr. Vino visited some Australian wineries that bottle Riesling and sampled some older vintag...
Washington's Best Wine
in Celebrate Wine, on May 30, 2009
...ve been. Rather, it involved attending the annual Taste Washington wine festival in Seattle.
Fifty wines is not an education. But two hundred and fifty is a good start. That's about how many I ma...
Wine Time: the Bunnel Family Cellar in Washington State
in Celebrate Wine, on May 24, 2009
...es customers a unique opportunity to appreciate the relationship between food and their distinctive wines," according to Entrepreneur.
The cellar's wines are good quality micro-vintages. Whi...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
How much are business schools to blame for the recession? Writing in The Times , Phillip Delves Broughton says MBA should actually stand for Master of the Business Apocalypse. Broughton writes: "Harvard Business School alumni include Stan O'Neal and John Thain, the last two heads of ...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
...d here , sheds light on this question. It used an interactive tool called the Socially Responsible Investing Stock Screener, which ranks 500 of the country's largest companies according to five c...
A Look at Japanese Saké
in Celebrate Wine, on May 10, 2009
Having spent a sizable chunk of time in Asia, I'm familiar with saké . It's often called rice wine, even though it isn't technically a wine in any real sense. Vinography recently took a look at a particular saké and drew the conclusion that the process of making it resembles the b...
California's Mendocino Wines
in Celebrate Wine, on April 29, 2009
... a number of other vibrant, evolving wine regions. Vinography recently took a look at some of the wines produced in California's Mendocino wine region at the first annual Taste of Mendocino wi...
Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL
in Wangtam, on April 23, 2009
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Another sucker's rally
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
Should we read anything into the gyrations of the Dow Jones industrial average? Should we take heart when the market starts trading higher? If the experts are right, it's just a sucker's rally. As Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini told Steve Forbes in this interview , the extent of the contract...
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in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
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Naked Chianti
in Celebrate Wine, on April 20, 2009
Linda Sterling did a review recently of a nice chianti. A very nice chianti, actually. And she did it naked...
If you never seen Linda 's Naked Wine Show you're missing out. On this particular episode she looks at Barone Ricasoli Brolio Chianti Classico 2006 - which, at under $25 a b...
Wines for Latin Cooking
in Latina Viva, on April 18, 2009
...I came across two videos recently on Wines for latin Cooking. They were on Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library TV and he had Ingrid Hoffmann from the food network as a guest.
The two episodes of ...
Small Wind: GE Is Investing
in IfEnergy, on April 16, 2009
CNET reported earlier this month that GE is sinking money into wind power. But it's not the big super-turbines, it's small personal wind turbines that GE is focusing on. Southwest Windpower, which makes residential wind turbines, said on Monday it has raised $10 million from existing inves...
A Look at 2007's Rhône Wines
in Celebrate Wine, on April 15, 2009
... spent a good ten days tasting 2007 vintages. Based on that trip, as well as the dozens of bottled wines I've tasted since I've been back in the office, I can report that it's a mix of goo...
Eric Asimov in Alcase
in Celebrate Wine, on March 31, 2009
...gh a tasting of 25 of the winery's vintages. His description of the evenings events (and of the wines involved) make for good reading. You can find it here .
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How to Rent an Affordable Classic on Your Next Riviera Vacation
in Classical Drives, on March 25, 2009
...ar scenery, the Mediterranean sea, Monaco and its Grand Prix, beaches, boats, French cuisine, great wines, elegant villas, exciting cars, glamorous women, a temperate climate. Of course, those dreams ...
The Wines Spies
in Celebrate Wine, on March 24, 2009
... give the web site a visit. The site is a blog review site, of sorts. But they are also selling the wines they review, at an attractive discount in many cases. The Wine Spies, LLC is a unique kind of ...
Buying Wine in LA
in Celebrate Wine, on March 11, 2009
... on seven of the city's wine shops.
Among the shops is Du Vin. Du Vin's focus is European wines, and the shop, a converted house off Melrose, feels like it should be tucked away on a narrow ...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 7, 2009
...9;s Harris would agree. But maybe that's wishful thinking. How much more money can the US keep investing in a company that's going nowhere?...
Palm Springs Concours Begins With a Blast
in Classical Drives, on March 6, 2009
... dressed, being treated to specialty foods from renowned area chefs, accompanied by fine California wines. Suddenly there was a veritable explosion of sound as a show car parked nearby was fired up wi...
Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...u look at the consulting market for supply chain today, you clearly see that many companies are not investing in big transformational projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work. So ...
California Zinfandels: Which Ones Are Best?
in Celebrate Wine, on February 28, 2009
Vinography had an informative and insightful look earlier this month at California's Zinfandels. The author went to the ZAP Zinfandel Festival "for a chance to taste a whole lot of Zinfandel."
The place was crowded: Most Zinfandels top-out at $40 a bottle, and most really good ones ...
Italy's Unknown Wines from $10 to $20
in Celebrate Wine, on February 16, 2009
...The NT Times had an informative piece earlier this month on wines from Italy in the $10 to $20 prie range. Few places offer a wider selection of singular wines in the $10 to $20 price range - the sw...
WOWIO: Free Ebooks, Comics and Graphic Novels
in Wangtam, on February 13, 2009
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Trust crashes
in Sox First, on February 13, 2009
...s. Alarmingly, the study also found that US Government intervention had left 80% less confident of investing in the market. Three out of four admitted they had lost confidence as a result of recent f...
How the Recession is Shaping Up
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 12, 2009
A few days ago I looked at job losses in this recession and talked about the difficult task of predicting sales. I used a chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed real job losses in the 1990, 2001 and current recessions. I thought I'd create a little more context with this new cha...
Is That an "Honest" Wine You're Drinking?
in Celebrate Wine, on February 4, 2009
...and white divisions exist has some sort of agenda.
Instead I'd like to suggest that the honest wines distinguish themselves from the pack in the same way that truly kind and thoughtful people mig...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on February 3, 2009
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
New Zealand's Wine Country
in Celebrate Wine, on January 28, 2009
It's been a few years since I've been to New Zealand. I spent a few days in Auckland once and was blessed to be allowed to spend Christmas with a Maori family near Napier. Some of the family's men swam out into the bay to get fresh abalone for Christmas dinner...
Chang-rae Lee has a...
Will Bank Of America Go Belly Up?
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 25, 2009
No one would have thought that such industry giants as Citi Bank would virtually fall off the map; but it, and many others nearly did, and Bank Of America could join that list.
Just a short while after the Federal Government infused the banking industry with hundreds of billions of dollars in bail ...
Microsoft To Lay Off 5,000 Employees
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 22, 2009
Microsoft has always done things in a big way and their first ever layoff will carry on that tradition when 5,000 employees are laid off due to lagging sales.
The lay offs, which will eliminate 5% of the company's personnel, will impact virtually every department and will be instituted simultan...
Tasted a Good Wine Recently? Snooth It...
in Celebrate Wine, on January 21, 2009
Hat tip to TechCrunch this week for point Snooth out to me.
Snooth describes itself as "the world's largest and fastest growing community of wine lovers." TechCrunch's description is probably a little more objective. They call Snooth "a social wine review site that is gai...
The Dystopians - Review
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 21, 2009
The article starts off with US resident Dmitry Orlov, from Leningrad , who has been living on a semi-self-sustainable boat in a form 'bourgeois survivalism' for 2 ½ years, riding a bicycle and skipping the TV.
After the downfall of the Soviet Union he learned a lesson for future refe...
18th Annual Boston Wine Expo 2008
in Celebrate Wine, on January 20, 2009
...wcasing over 450 international and domestic wineries from 13 countries pouring over 1,800 different wines; An Exclusive Grand Cru Wine Lounge, featuring the finest wines in the world; and a Seminar Se...
Zinfandel Festival 2009
in Celebrate Wine, on January 16, 2009
If you haven't yet, you might want o get hold of a ticket to the Zinfandel Festival to be held in San Francisco on January 28-31, 2009. This year's theme is "Unmask Your Passion".
"Unmask Your Passion" reflects our enthusiasm for America's Heritage Wine-Zinfand...
A Philosophy of Wine?
in Celebrate Wine, on January 8, 2009
Is wine a topic for Philosophy? Barry Smith thinks so...
I mentioned elsewhere this week that one of my favorite websites was Philosophy Bites . The website makes podcasts available - podcasts of interviews with leading academics in the field today. They discuss, well, philosophy. And occasion...
4 Crisis Related Suicides (Report)
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...nth, swallowed sleeping pills and slashed his wrists with a craft knife. He was facing losses from investing with the alleged fraudster Bernard Madoff. His family said that his suicide was a "mat...
Rise of the new consumer
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
...heir money from shares to high interest savings accounts. Instead of overseas trips, they have been investing in their own homes. And they are making sure their personal trainers and yoga teachers are...
Investment in Smaller Companies Can Still Pay Big
in Biz Plan Hacks, on January 4, 2009
Paul Elliott over at Motley Fool had an entertaining story this weekend about the value of smaller, lesser known stocks. A Midwest billionaire once claimed he could earn 50% per year on a portfolio of ordinary common stocks. Of course, there was one condition. As the story goes on you find out...
Pinot Grigio for New Years Eve
in Celebrate Wine, on January 1, 2009
My wife and I dropped in on some friends early on NY Eve. We'd planned to be home by 11pm or so. After all, we live in a very rural area and it's not like there are block parties going on. But as it turned out, we stayed later than that. So my champagne is still chilling in the fridge and th...
Tilar J. Mazzeo's "The Widow Clicquot" Tells How Champagne Became Famous
in Celebrate Wine, on December 31, 2008
Jane and Michael Stern has a great review of Tilar J. Mazzeo's biography of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin in the NY Times on Sunday.
With New Year's Eve upon us and a glass of bubbly soon to be in almost everyone's hand, I thought the review of Mazzeo's book was timely. Clicquot...
Tonino Lamborghini Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on December 30, 2008
...rs, burners, solar panels, water treatment, air conditioners, air generators, hydraulic components, wines, golf carts and more. Undoubtedly the masterpiece of Lamborghini was the "Miura," t...
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
...an, Phyllis Molchatsky, is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission after losing $2 million investing with Madoff. She alleges, with good reason, that the SEC was negligent in failing to detec...
I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention
in Wangtam, on December 23, 2008
...nies, Investment Concepts, and more...
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Economic forecasts - dark days ahead
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
...cious cycles: consumers are not consuming, businessmen are not taking on workers, investors are not investing and the banks are not lending. There is an almost total paralysis from which no-one is esc...
Venture Capitalists Karen Gordon Mills Nominated to Head the Small Business Administration
in Bizinformer, on December 20, 2008
...; He Tapped a Private Equity/Buyout Specialist. The distinction is important. VCs take big risks by investing in new business. Private equity players take over or invest in mature companies and try to...
Wine Without Clothes: The Naked Wine Show
in Celebrate Wine, on December 18, 2008
Susan Sterling has brown straight hair that flows down to at least her chest and a small mole on the front of her right shoulder. She has a light tan and, I think, wears lipstick to do her wine show. Lipstick, and maybe a little make up - but nothing else, at least as far as I can tell... Okay, some...
The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?
in Sox First, on December 14, 2008
The tales of woe and the list of Bernard Madoff's victims continue to grow. Associated Press reports that the list includes former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and J. Ezra Merkin, the chairman of GMAC Financial Services, the Robert I. Lappin Ch...
Gary Vaynerchuk on South Africa's Pinotage...
in Celebrate Wine, on December 7, 2008
I wandered upon this podcast of Gary Vaynerchuk and couldn't help but be entertained. I suppose I've lived a deprived life until now, having managed to reach the age of 48 without actually seeing any of Gary's previous 589 wine podcasts.
Gary has a unique style and his animated st...
Tudor Halts Redemptions
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...15.4 billion. The firm's investment strategies include global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities , event driven s...
Do You Have Your Champagne for New Year's Eve Yet...?
in Celebrate Wine, on December 2, 2008
Heather Johnson gives us a few tips for picking out a bottle of champagne or sparkling wine for New Year's Eve. It's not like you can do without some the bubbles in your glass for that one night each year.
Heather's tips on dryness and fruitiness are especially useful if you aren...
Venture Funds Still Spending Big in China
in China Venture News, on November 26, 2008
....S., companies that invest VC funds in China don't seem to have figured it out yet; they're investing faster than ever, according to sources like Red Herring .
From Ken Schachter's repor...
NY Wine Lovers Taste 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau
in Celebrate Wine, on November 24, 2008
French vintner are hoping that this years offering of Beaujolais nouveau will raise spirits during the hard financial times facing much of the world, according to the Associated Press . The vintage is traditionally released on third Thursday of November.
Beaujolais nouveau is a red wine made from ...
Faster Than a Speeding Ferrari
in Classical Drives, on November 20, 2008
...ompany, N.T.V. But here's the interesting part. Luca di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari , is investing in the company, as is Diego della Valle, president of Tod's , which developed the fam...
The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
The Siemens bribery saga rolls on with two former managers confessing their crimes and likely to receive suspended sentences. The pair took the illegal payments and established a secret accounting system, using sham contracts for payments into slush funds. But it won't stop there. The Inte...
AIG's bigger bailout
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
...ities-lending business. The business involves lending out securities to short sellers or others and investing the collateral for gains. AIG has labored to unload illiquid assets in order to give back ...
Wall Street Survivor Training
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 28, 2008
... prior to taking risks," states Rory Olson , CEO of Stock-Trak Group.
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