Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Asia markets are picking up again heavily on the down side, with the India down almost 10% at the moment. The Euros are predicting a start at last -3% down from yesterday’s bloodbath. At the moment the Dow futures are off 500 or so points, meaning at open it will be down 500 points immediately […]
Well, so much for containment! It seems that the banks in China were no smarter than the rest of the world, and became investors in the funny money structured investments backed up by questionable loans. From CNN Money: China’s banks feel subprime heat BEIJING (AP) — Shares in China’s banks fell sharply Monday after news […]
While the US took MLK day off in the markets, the other parts of the world traded into uncertainty and doubt. As a result all world indexes ended sharply lower: % Today % YTD FTSE 100 (UK) -5.48% -13.61% DAX (Germany) -6.83% -15.49% Nikkei (Japan) -5.49% -14.36% HANG SENG (China) -7.41% -13.22% Why is this […]
As most of the readers here know, my team has been working with new technology to extract, refine and exploit information that is all around us. We have named that technology Boomerang and one example of it is an application called Hardtack. We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of full scale data gathering with […]
Ah a classic YouTube presentation. Thanks to the Fake Steve Jobs for making me aware of this.. The poor fellow from India does not seem to realize that someone has loaded up a swarm of Darth Vader samples and is playing them back.
Lost in the Election and Brittany din, the cold wind of recession is starting to blow hard enough that even the mainstream media types are starting to see smell it. Worse yet the deflation triggers are continuing to fire faster and harder since Christmas. Some of the facts: The Dollar continues to weaken against other […]
For reasons that I don’t understand, the polito-tards decided to shove the primaries as early as they could in 2008. This is going to cause 2 really unfortunate things: 1) The Primaries will turn into “American Idol – The President” – A larger portion of Americans care less about the important issues we all face. […]
Well, the circus that is the Iowa Caucuses is complete, and I am thankful for that. Never before have I seen the media make a bigger fuss over a tiny handful of voters and what their whims were. To see teams of analysts and pundits attempt to draw broad conclusions over what is (apologies to […]
First off, I have to cite a wonderful new blog from the folks that bring us Gizmodo, this new critter being called io9, and it’s all about Science Fiction and things surrounding it. A fabulous read if you are wandering around the house with your iPod Touch tinkering. One of the articles up there now […]
Broken Primaries – Suggested Alternatives
I have been highly critical of the manner in which the US Presidential primaries are being conducted for the 2008 elections. In part because I believe, especially this time, that they are organized in such a way (and covered by the media in such a way) that the resulting nominee might be un-electable. It’s quite […]
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