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2009 has been characterized by turbulence in three Islamic states – Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to George Friedman of Stratfor Global Intelligence, these theaters will also be the focus of intense conflicts in 2010. Read on … […]

What’s ahead for 2010?

By Prieur du Plessis, on December 30th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

“Unfortunately, we couldn’t find our crystal ball. But we did find 15 Minyanville professors to give us their take on the upcoming year,” said Todd Harrison and my other friends over at Minyanville. Click through to access a superb compilation of video clips. […]

Prieur’s readings (December 30, 2009)

By Prieur du Plessis, on December 30th, 2009 posted in: Investment lessons, Markets, Money

This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. […]

The biggest news stories of 2009

By Prieur du Plessis, on December 30th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

The website Journalism.org every week monitors the news from 55 outlets, calculating what percentage of the week’s print, television, radio and internet reporting is devoted to each story. As shown in this post, GOOD has prepared an infographic looking at the totals for all the news this year, divided into categories of politics, culture, business, and plain old bad news. Very interesting stuff … […]

The new airport drill

By Prieur du Plessis, on December 30th, 2009 posted in: Humor

As if airports were not already a big pain … […]