Archive for January, 2008
Serious Food Inflation (read shortages) Hitting China Due to Storm
This is quite a storm and you see nothing about it on the US TV screens except a 20 second blip on CNN. Again, we are so inward looking - that is a massive situation.Taking away the human aspect and thinking as investors, keep in mind the Chinese have been hard balling the potash consortium trying …
More Bailouts on the Way. I Cannot Even Keep Track of the Proposals Anymore.
We have more bailouts coming, so many … I cannot even keep count.NY Bond Insurer Rescue AdvancesNew York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Thursday a plan by the state’s insurance regulator to bail out struggling bond insurers is making good progress amid fresh worries about the financial industry.Feel free…
Google (GOOG) Misses
It wasn’t that poor of a miss but good sufficient to spook society. Another one of my 13 2008 Outlier Predictions coming true ;)So cutting back severely made me miss out on Mastercard (MA), but saved me in Google (GOOG) - I guess it’s a wash.Remember, there is a jobs number tomorrow… as for the #…
What the Fed Cut Means to You
Are you lost in a sea of questions and confusion when you form out about rate cuts? The average person usually shruggs their shoulders, considering one overpowering questions is ruling their minds, “How does that effect me?” Today, amid plummeting global markets getting skiddish about a…
Rush University Medical Center To Utilize Radio Frequency Identification Technology From Mobile Aspects
Mobile Aspects announced that the Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease (CCSHD) at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, has agreed to install iRISupplyâ„¢, a clinical resource management system that manages medical devices and supplies through radio frequency identification (RFID) t…
Integration Of Host Tissue With Implants Boosted By Porous Structures
Results published in FASEB (the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) by researchers at Columbia University, including Jeremy Mao of the Columbia College of Dental Medicine, demonstrate a novel way of using porous structures as a drug-delivery vehicle that can hel…
Heart Attack Response And Cardiac Damage Predicted By Gene
A protein has been found that influences the response of the heart to a lack of oxygen and blood flow, such as occurs during a heart attack, a team of Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Nature.
This finding may present a new therapeutic approach to treating loss of blood flow and oxygen …










