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“When I gained citizenship in the early eighties, I made an oath to do my army, pay my taxes, be a good citizen…that was the rule,” stated one of Switzerland’s top institutional investors. “Today, people want their rights, without bearing the obligation, it is a huge hypocrisy,” he continued. “Switzerland was always a land of opportunity, like America, everything was possible, people came with money, brought value, b

“So Arafat asked me what I’d do,” said Bill, to a captivated room of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian capitalists, at this week’s C3 US/Arab summit. “And I told him, ‘Yasser, I’d find the most beautiful 9yr old girl in all the West Bank, dress her in the prettiest Palestinian dress I could afford, give her a big ole bouquet of flowers, take off my pistol, stand beside her, and have that little girl welcome Sharon when h

Hope all goes well. Summer’s over. Back to school. What a busy term this oughta be. I’m kicking it off tomorrow with a trip to NY. Yeah, the Big Apple is as good a teacher as you’ll ever hope to find. Then London. Scotland. Switzerland. Canada. Chicago. No recess. Theme: Shhh… Quiet… Listen… “Bleep…Bleep…Bleep.” Oh, that’s it: Voyager 1 — miracle of Mankind’s imagination, launched Sept 5, 1977. It’s final

“I’m keeping it simple these days,” he said, “cause I’m not that smart.” Now, false modesty should be annoying coming from a trader who’s profited so consistently, over so many years – but I cut this guy infinite slack. Not just because he’s been a great trading mentor. But ’cause he believes it. And fears the day he stops humbling himself, he’ll get steamrolled. “So many smart guys explain why stocks will go d

Shhh… Quiet… Listen… “Bleep…Bleep…Bleep.” Oh, that’s it: Voyager 1 — miracle of Mankind’s imagination, launched Sept 5, 1977. It’s finally crossing the outer limit of our tiny solar system, 11bln miles from the Sun. Voyager sends back only basic measurements, after all, NASA blessed it with just 68kb of memory. Today’s iPod Nano has 100,000 times more. Yeah, we’ve come far in 35yrs. Just look around. Corn

Hope all goes well. Screw him. Seriously. I was feeling quite pleased with myself, until Harry went wild on the strip, making my vacation seem, well, rather boring, common. Of course, it’s not his fault. Really. That’s what Princes do. Have always done. Will always do. Oh, just imagine Henry VIII in Vegas… Anyhow, I’m back in my seat. At the tables. Doing what I do. And truth be told, I got a great f’in life. Wild in

Pussy Riot! Pussy Riot! Pussy Riot! Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. It’s way too fun to say that, knowing it won’t clog your spam folder. Plus, I got mild tourette’s. Anyhow, in my absence, Putin locked up my favorite punk band. Apparently Vladimir’s gone soft, ’cause a hardened dictator woulda tucked the trio into bed, not the gulag. But hey, that’s the trend. Things ain’t as hard as we thought. Yeah, look at US Q2 GDP

Olivia and Teddy squeezed into the 3rd row, double-buckled, sandwiched between luggage, laptops, lacrosse gear. Osama bin Charlie, strapped to his water-board, shared the 2nd row with Jackson and Grandma. DJ Mara rode shotgun, spinning Harry Potter books-on-tape. While Grandpa Pierre sat between us, reduced to ashes, in a 6-inch wooden box, in the center console, amidst our CD collection. Yeah, it was our Little Miss

Week-in-Review: Mon: Russia ret sales 18m low, German fin min denies rumors ECB to cap peripheral yields, S&P flat; Tue: China injects 220B CNY to easy money mkts, HK CPI 24m low, smooth Spanish bill auction, S&P -0.3%; Wed: Dovish FOMC mins foreshadow QE3 (USD drops), Norway unemp 3%, Brazil infl as exp, Canada ret sales soft, S&P flat; Thur: China HSBC flash PMI soft, Taiwan IP remains weak, Germ mfg PM