Mongolia votes in key elections

The polls have opened in Mongolia for the first general election in four years."Voters started queuing well before polling stations opened, many riding into villages on camel and horseback to cast their votes. Mongolia's potential mineral wealth has been a campaign issue,...

What About the Inequity in Power?

*****OPINION***** [Note: I italicized the portions from Mr. Kling's article for easier reading.]"You know what, I never thought about inequity in such specific terms before I read an article by Cato’s Arnold Kling reprinted from the Orange County Register (Click here for...

Barclays 'to get cash infusion from major Japanese bank'

The UK banking sector certainly appears to have been stuck with a lot of sub-prime debt problems."Barclays Plc may be close to securing a 100bn yen (€594m) capital injection from Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. as part of the bank’s efforts to weather the impact...

Ultra wealthy families welcome to join the DIFC « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

" The DIFC Family Office was created to promote DIFC as an ideal domicile for family offices and is a further extension of the DIFC value proposition across businesses within the centre. The DIFC has now established an environment that combines a robust legal and regulatory...

China:Rising Demand for Meat SpellS Trouble

China: Rising demand for meat due to more wealth in the hands of Chinese spell trouble for world Food Prices. China emerging as fastest growing economy means that aveage chinese has more in his pocket for meat. The vegetable ingrediants pices added with the meat also go up...

Tribute to a Poet Laureate - by lawdog

"As read at City Lights Bookstore as part of LaborFest 2004, and on Tasha's Place on TalkShoe 5/12/08Sometimes I lose my perspective. I forget what a truly incredible place San Francisco is, and how very fortunate I am to rub shoulders with the artists who have always been...

Top 5 objectives of the rich

"1 To get richer Especially if they were poor at some point. The feeling of suddenly coming into life-changing wealth is pleasant, especially if you worked your ass off to get it. They spend the rest of their lives wanting the validation, the high of accomplishment. They also...

Moderate Your Greed In Acquiring Wealth

Money, they say is the root of all evils. But it’s not the money itself but the obsession to acquire it by all means has motivated a person to do evil things such as: murder, robbery, swindling, plunder, graft and corruption, lying, stealing of people’s money, betrayal...

Sweden formally charges Pirate Bay owners

"As expected, the Swedish government charged the owners of Pirate Bay with copyright infringement of four applications, nine movies, and 22 music tracks. Each of the four owners, Fredrik Neij aka 'TiAMO,' Gottfrid Svartholm Warg aka 'Anakata,' Peter Sunde aka 'Brokep' and...