Comments on: Wednesday Night #1330 - Financial Markets

By: Diana Thébaud Nicholson

Diana Thébaud Nicholson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:48:53 +0000

On February 21, 2007, Ron Meisels reminded Wednesday Nighters that Since 1887, years ending in seven have always had a bad ending starting sometime in August and ending sometime in October, including 1907 - sometimes referred to as the Crash of 07 - and 1987 And that was before anyone had heard of subprime or ABC ... we are almost converts to the theory of cycles.

By: EmilioMart

EmilioMart — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:48:06 +0000

Has anyone had any experience with no-load mutual funds? I’m very interested in mutual fund investing, and I’d like to try foreign mutual funds and these no-load funds. But I was curious about what others thought were the best mutual funds to invest in.
Thanks

By: Diana Thébaud Nicholson

Diana Thébaud Nicholson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:09:58 +0000

I really liked your write up especially in the light of the Charles Taylor
debate. It seems to follow up John Curtin’s comments about the difficulty in getting funding for a film about a Christian choir.
Have we become so fearful of religion in Quebec? Canada? that we cannot acknowledge contributions that can be made to our society by a clear thinker who happens to be a Christian scholar? Are we unable to see the good in anything? Where is balance?
Catherine (Gillbert)

By: Diana Thébaud Nicholson

Diana Thébaud Nicholson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:12:34 +0000

8 August 2007
In the Hole to China
“Two senior spokesmen for the Chinese government observed that China’s considerable holdings of US dollars and Treasury bonds ‘contributes a great deal to maintaining the position of the dollar as a reserve currency’.”
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

By: Diana Thébaud Nicholson

Diana Thébaud Nicholson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:08:57 +0000

Fuel for the body and the car
…Demand for grain is accelerating not to feed humans or livestock but to fill petrol tanks. Compared with 2000, three-times more corn is used to make ethanol in America; distilleries that produce biofuels hoover up a fifth of the country’s corn supplies. Demand for cleaner energy in turn keeps demand for corn growing. Farmers are having trouble keeping pace with the burgeoning biofuel industry. And to produce more corn farmers are switching production from wheat and soya, pushing up the prices of those crops too.
Rising food prices: The agonies of agflation