Monthly Archives: December 2011
2012: Predictions, Prognostications, and Prophecies
Before we turn the page to 2012 we must take a look back at the year that just passed so we can extract context for the year to come. Looking at where the stock market began and ended in 2011, … Continue reading
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
By all accounts the sky was falling on December 5, 2008. Several months before, credit market liquidity had glazed over like cold winter molasses and, after over 150-years of business, Lehman Brothers had ignominiously vanished from the face of the … Continue reading
Requiem for a Dictator: Kim Jong-il
There are places on the face of the earth where, although the sun may occasionally shine, they’ve never seen a ray of light. There’s a cold dry Siberian no man’s land that extends east from the Ural Mountains to the … Continue reading
How to Catch Fate’s Fortune
Believing In an Absurdity [Editor’s note: Today’s Economic Prism is an excerpt of remarks made by Direct Expressions’ President and Founder MN Gordon at the annual company holiday party held last Saturday at the 555 East Steakhouse.] “Fate throws fortune, but … Continue reading
