In the midst of this market rout, it may be a good time to take a look at the optimistic perspective. The writer of the Singularity 2050 blog believes that the world economy will grow at an accelerating rate, and that it is only a matter of time before there are...
You have to marvel at Warren’s timing: He knew that once the valuation on a deal with Goldman would have been completely different after a federal bailout. So he decided to bet on a bailout before it happened, but not before Paulson had announced...
Guy Spier talked with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar about billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the outlook for the banking industry. Video link
Catherine Mayer interviewed me for about 2 hours for this piece. While I can hardly claim to know “who is David Cameron”, I think that Catherine captured some really valuable things about his personality that were not in the public domain...
Guy Spier was quoted in a Time article about David Cameron, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. Guy and David were contemporaries at Oxford. Read the article
Merlin Mann on Time and Attention (Getting Things Done)This is important – I learned a lot from it. Merlin Mann on Time and Attention (Getting Things Done)
This mission to “Free Gaza” clearly has a lot of money and some very slick public relations minds behind it. ::..Free Gaza..::And the Western press are obivously just lapping it all up, without any critical analysis, as I read to my disgust in Le Monde...
1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle – NYTimes.comPerhaps Israel needs to take a page from the Russian playbook. Imagine the was an image from the 2006 War in Lebanon. Consider the uproar that there would have been. If Israel responded only once in the...
The lunch was reported by several news organizations… My $650,100 Lunch with Warren Buffett TIME – June 30, 2008 What would you pay to have lunch with the richest man in the world? For me and Mohnish Pabrai — a friend who, like me, runs a U.S.-based...
Mexico City, May 28, 2008 I have done various presentations recently – in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Italy. It has been a very interesting experience, and I have gotten a lot better at public speaking. At the behest of one of the people that I have met...
