Saturday, June 02, 2012
Do Not Track!
Turn on your browser’s “Do Not Track” feature!
The Do Not Track feature lets you express a preference not to be tracked by websites. When the feature is enabled, your browser will tell advertising networks and other websites and applications that you want to opt-out of tracking for purposes like behavioral advertising.
For more info on how to turn it on in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft IE look here:
For Chrome:
1. Go to Options > Under the Hood > Content Settings.
2. Select ‘Do not allow any site to track my physical location’.
3. Once selected, you can close the dialog box.
Check out these great Chrome extensions:
Keep my Opt-Outs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkiecampfdgfjilccfpfoe
Do Not Track Plus: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/epanfjkfahimkgomnigadpkobaefekcd
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Peer Currency Transfers: http://TransferWISe.com http://CurrencyFair.com http://PeerTransfer.com
Transferring money WISely across currencies while avoiding onerous wire transfer fees - foreign exchange marketplaces - currency transfer networks ... the disintermediation of institutional currency exchange - 0.3% currency exchange fees vs the typical 3% or greater via "banks" - cheaper remittances
From my own experience there is a lot of potential here.. I've done bilateral currency exchange transactions with trading firms (import/export - particularly those with an import bias) who are typically always in need of foreign currency.. they've always sought out further transactions, and will always offer better than bank - usually somewhere between retail to interbank, and in times of extreme scarcity at retail ...i.e. they'll buy from you at the bank's retail offer price.
Characteristics:- person to person currency exchange marketplace, customers exchange currency with customers
- review and choose the best rate on offer from other customers
- place your own rate and wait to be matched
- no dependence on "interbank rates", customers sometimes achieve better rates than interbankWhat I've found so far at the date of this post, please add any others you're aware of in comments:
- http://CurrencyFair.com (supporting >10 countries/currencies) the best one so far IMHO
- http://TransferWISe.com (only supports EU and GBP)
- http://PeerTransfer.com (student payments)
Further reading:
- http://onforb.es/JipFd9 (on transferWISe)
- http://bit.ly/I1m4ku (CurrencyFair review)
- http://bit.ly/I5Breg (peerTransfer coverage)
Startup of the Day: http://TransferWISe.com
TransferWISe - avoid onerous wire transfer fees http://TransferWISe.com http://read.bi/Idy5AC
NYSE:MUX - McEwen Mining Co.
Speculative... watch listed...
MUX is a special company, there is little to say about it now because earnings haven't really kicked in. I'm not going in-depth in this post, you've got to understand the metals sector and be able to speculate to risk this one...
Its attractive at these levels precisely because its undervalued viz its potential.
Some positives: it has a heavily invested founding CEO with a great industry reputation. But thats qualitative, without any hard quantitative evidence to back it up. That's the nature of risk.
Some negatives: its exposed to Argentina, and thus subject to the risk that the Argentinian government appropriates its mining rights. Its a junior minor i.e. tiny in comparison to other players in the industry - but thats also why its attractive, etc.
In summary do your own research and size appropriately to your risk appetite.. I'll bite into this, a very small bite, next week...
More reading:
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/energystockchannel/2012/04/18/shares-of-mux-now-oversold-2
- http://www.informedtrades.com/blogs/simit-patel/12003-buying-dip-mcewen-mining-mux.html
MUX is a special company, there is little to say about it now because earnings haven't really kicked in. I'm not going in-depth in this post, you've got to understand the metals sector and be able to speculate to risk this one...
Its attractive at these levels precisely because its undervalued viz its potential.
Some positives: it has a heavily invested founding CEO with a great industry reputation. But thats qualitative, without any hard quantitative evidence to back it up. That's the nature of risk.
Some negatives: its exposed to Argentina, and thus subject to the risk that the Argentinian government appropriates its mining rights. Its a junior minor i.e. tiny in comparison to other players in the industry - but thats also why its attractive, etc.
In summary do your own research and size appropriately to your risk appetite.. I'll bite into this, a very small bite, next week...
More reading:
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/energystockchannel/2012/04/18/shares-of-mux-now-oversold-2
- http://www.informedtrades.com/blogs/simit-patel/12003-buying-dip-mcewen-mining-mux.html
Telefonica (ADR) - Bought 20/4
2012.04.20 I bought some TEF today, as it looks attractively undervalued with an 11% dividend yield. Note thought that management is initiating a share repurchase program and thus the cash dividend will probably decrease; plus historic results mean nothing. This is a long term investment, you should be comfortable holding for 3 years or more, and seeing Telefonica's price decrease even further in the interim. If the price does continue to decrease substantially then I may purchase more later ...
"Telefonica presents an appealing opportunity for dividends and stock appreciation. The Spanish company has tumbled in the last year as concerns over that country's economy have grown and Spanish bond rates have risen to 6%. The telecom giant, though, may not be as exposed to the struggling Spanish economy as it appears, since it generates much of its revenue from Latin America. In fact, about 70% of its 2011 operating income came from Latin America and the rest of Europe.
Telefonica's shares have dropped nearly 50% in the last year, and it recently reached a new 52-week low just under $15. As the stock has dropped, its dividend yield has soared, now up to 11.4%. Shares look affordably priced at a forward P/E of just 7, and the company brought in over 8 billion euros in free cash flow last year." Idea Source: Motley Fool
"Telefonica presents an appealing opportunity for dividends and stock appreciation. The Spanish company has tumbled in the last year as concerns over that country's economy have grown and Spanish bond rates have risen to 6%. The telecom giant, though, may not be as exposed to the struggling Spanish economy as it appears, since it generates much of its revenue from Latin America. In fact, about 70% of its 2011 operating income came from Latin America and the rest of Europe.
Telefonica's shares have dropped nearly 50% in the last year, and it recently reached a new 52-week low just under $15. As the stock has dropped, its dividend yield has soared, now up to 11.4%. Shares look affordably priced at a forward P/E of just 7, and the company brought in over 8 billion euros in free cash flow last year." Idea Source: Motley Fool
Friday, April 02, 2010
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Fund My Mutual Fund: Ron Paul with Dylan Ratigan
Fund My Mutual Fund: Ron Paul with Dylan Ratigan: "Nice short interview by Dylan Ratigan (who escaped the vortex of CNBC) of Ron Paul. Looks like the Fed audit bill is really gaining steam - if you are for transparency you should be behind this bill. Obviously Tim Geithner is against transparency [Aug 26, 2009: Geithner - Auditing the Fed 'is a Line We Don't Want to Cross'] And the Federal Reserve doesn't want transparency - as expected they filed an appeal to disclosing what exactly it is doing, and whom it is doing it with after a successful Freedom of Information Act suit. [Aug 25, 2009: Court Orders Federal Reserve to Disclose Emergency Loan Details]"
Inflation a Risk Without Foreign Debt Buyers: Robertson - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com
Inflation a Risk Without Foreign Debt Buyers: Robertson - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com:
"The US is too dependent on Japan and China buying up the country's debt and could face severe economic problems if that stops, Tiger Management founder and chairman Julian Robertson told CNBC.
'It's almost Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don't buy our debt,” Robertson said in an interview. 'I don't know where we could get the money. I think we've let ourselves get in a terrible situation and I think we ought to try and get out of it.'"
City Critic - GoMobo Makes Ordering Fast Food a Little Faster - NYTimes.com
City Critic - GoMobo Makes Ordering Fast Food a Little Faster - NYTimes.com: "GoMobo’s motto is “Skip the line.” But in the current economic climate, fewer and fewer restaurants have lines. (Except for the infuriating Starbucks, which isn’t on GoMobo’s system.) And where lines do appear, as often as not they seem to be an attraction: the more people who want to go to Shake Shack, the more people who want to go to Shake Shack."
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
H.P.’s Bet in Buying E.D.S. Seems a Winner - NYTimes.com
H.P.’s Bet in Buying E.D.S. Seems a Winner - NYTimes.com: "In the services business, if cost-cutting and price are the only levers you have to compete, it’s not sustainable,” said Dave Liederbach, the general manager of I.B.M.’s outsourcing business. “The chaos that results in a client situation will be severe."
Monday, September 21, 2009
here are some of the points from the report
1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.
2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.
3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds
4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.
5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.
6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.
7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.
8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.
9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.
10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.
11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.
12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.
Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?
Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors - NYTimes.com
Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors - NYTimes.com: "Wrangling over patents is beginning to move out of the courtroom and into the marketplace. A flurry of new companies and investment groups has sprung up to buy, sell, broker, license and auction patents."
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