Disclosure: I have no position in NVDA, but did liquidate my position about a week ago before I heard of the following news. I was reading OSNEWS and saw the following headlines: NVDIDIA Ceases all Chipset Development, Blames Intel > The future of integrated graphics processors lies somewhere on...

Disclosure: Long AA, sold my FCX position for an excellent profit 71– 22 = 49 per share profit. So why do I think Guy got it wrong on his FCX call, and AA short? Guy’s point is earning power and fundamentals. Ok Guy let’s look at the two companies shall we. AA average EPS 1.70, with a share price...

Oh give me a break Geithner, you want what? > U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday called on the International Monetary Fund to provide rigorous surveillance to spot new investment bubbles and keep country foreign exchange policies in line with goals to rebalance the global economy....

There was a new study out that said every child born after 2000 will live to be a 100 years old. I subscribe to a magazine called “Der Aktionaire” and the following alert came out. > Dass die Menschen immer älter werden, ist nicht neu. Die Ergebnisse einer Studie, die deutsche und dänische...

Last night I was reading in the Swiss paper that Egypt is planning on introducing a veil ban. Though the interesting part is who wants to introduce this ban. > Egypt's top Islamic cleric is planning to ban students wearing the face veil from entering the schools of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's premier...

I have received quite a few books to do book reviews, and frankly I have been dropping the ball. BUT no more! I plan on doing regular book reviews. I am not going to do stars or ratings because they are silly. You can’t just say a book is 5 stars if all of your reviews are 5 stars. I will use a...

On Sept 25 I posted a comment on how Linux could be the new threat. Am I still of this opinion? Oh yeah! I am (still) utterly stunned at how good my netbook and my desktop server with GUI executes. Linux and Ubuntu might finally have cracked that nut. I have even found that GNumeric is quite a bit...

On the weekend I had a good talk with a good friend of mine and I asked, “what’s wrong with the US?” He said, “its easy, we are self-delusional.” I asked, “Really how?” He answered, “I sat down with a guy who was retiring from Ford in five years. He said he will be able to retire and enjoy his...

Ah yes, jobs were lost in the US, more than expected, and now it is all doom and gloom again. After all stocks have risen too much, too soon, and too fast, at least according to him. > “Markets have gone up too much, too soon, too fast,” Roubini said in an interview in Istanbul on Oct. 3. “I see...

When you look at the Redhat balance sheet and its latest results you have to say, wow, this company seems to have their business under control. But I wonder, if not something bigger is happening. With every recession and every bust things change. When times are good there usually is not that much...