Room For Debate

Our spending is currently equal to the entire economies of China and India added together and then doubled.
- Fareed Zakaria
www.fareedzakaria.com

If Americans don’t start buying a lot of stuff again, can the world economy be saved? What’s the global Plan B? Check out the different viewpoints from these experts: Juliet Schor + Bernard Baumohl + Michael Pettis + Lawrence Glickman + Desmond Lachman.

Coral Conference 2009

Check out this upcoming conference on Coral in New York on October 30 - 31, 2009 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.

Useful links:
www.tiffanyandcofoundation.org
www.thehenryfoundation.org
http://coralreef.noaa.gov
www.themagazineantiques.com

Chaim Even Zohar Viewpoint

Chaim's opinion piece was insightful. Gem shows bring more hype than action. More than half of the worldwide diamond jewelry retail sales are still finalized in the U.S. Hard to believe but true.

Useful links:
www.gfms.co.uk
www.diamondintelligence.com

The Art Of Deductive Observation

Amy Herman's creative thinking and unique teaching methodology was interesting.

Useful links:
www.frick.org
www.metmuseum.org
http://artfulperception.com

The Prince's Rainforests Project

There is no more important issue facing the world than the problem of carbon in the atmosphere. The rainforests are the major source of that carbon.

- Sir David Attenborough
www.davidattenborough.co.uk
www.rainforestsos.org

Random Thoughts

When compared to traditional technical and fundamental analyses, Behavioral Analysis creates significant value due to its inherent predictive--instead of reactive--nature. This is the first time this new financial theory has been applied practically to stocks, commodities and currencies. BAM was developed over a 20 years process of studying human social behavior and how it affects specific market prices. And now we want to be the first to share our predictions on Twitter to help everyone--not just hedge funds--while putting our model to the ultimate test.

- J.G. Savoldi
Behavioral Analysis of Markets
www.baminvestor.com

Another crash in 2-5 months? Not again.

The Making Of The Godfather Movie

Mark Seal's opinion piece in the Vanity Fair about the making of The Godfather movie was interesting. What a story! Really. I can't wait to see the re-release of a Hollywood masterpiece.

Global Business BBC

Peter Day shares some of the management secrets behind the WD40's top secret formula, and learns some lessons which other, much larger businesses could profit from.

Useful links:
www.wd40.com
www.interbrand.co.uk