21 « January « 2009 « Investment Postcards from Cape Town

Obama’s speech – a textual analysis

By Prieur du Plessis, on January 21st, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

Leave your comment

Print This Post

This post deals with a textual analysis of the word frequencies of the inaugural speech. It makes for interesting reading. [...]

Obama’s honeymoon faces daunting tasks

By Prieur du Plessis, on January 21st, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

One comment so far

Print This Post

This post deals with an article from Nouriel Roubini’s RGE Monitor, providing an insightful look at the daunting economic and geo-political challenges facing the President Obama. [...]

More on this topic (What's this?)

Five Things Obama Didn't Want You to Hear in His State of the Union (Money Morning, 1/25/12)

The Keystone Oil Pipeline: Rejected and Revived (Wall Street Daily, 1/30/12)

State of the Union Excerpts Outline Speech Focused on Income Inequality, Job Creation (Money Morning, 1/24/12)

Read more on Obama's Presidential Policy at Wikinvest

ECRI Leading Indicator: Turning for the better?
The latest smoothed annualized growth rate of the ECRI Weekly Leading Indicator in the week ended 22 January improved from… »
Roach on U.S. economy, Fed policy, China, Europe
Stephen Roach, non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, discusses the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve monetary policy,… »
Prieur’s Readings (Jan 30, 2012)
As part of my daily routine, I publish all my reading (including snippets from other well-known commentators) in an Internet… »
How best to play the China story
Helen Zhu, chief China equity strategist of Goldman Sachs, believes the mainland will see policy normalization in 2012. In… »
European choices
The article below is a guest contribution by Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of First National Bank. Last week, the Euro area… »