Brian HicksPosted June 15, 2007
When it comes to taste in all thing digital, Steve Jobs is a man with an uncanny knack for the pulse of consumers everywhere. Its a simple fact thats not lost on his biggest rival, Bill Gates.
Brian HicksPosted June 15, 2007
At a commercial real-estate conference earlier this week, Alan Greenspan downplayed concerns that the Chinese might sell their significant holdings of U.S. Treasuries.
Nick HodgePosted June 14, 2007
Investing in water makes perfect sense. These companies are going to make money. . . because no matter how much it costs, there's no substitute for water--period. The laws of supply and demand don't...
Brian HicksPosted June 12, 2007
As Web 2.0 wave continues to evolve, a falling housing market has become the least of every realtors nightly worries. Buried beneath the surface is something potentially more disruptive than any...
Jeff SiegelPosted June 8, 2007
In terms of coal production, the US will likely hit its peak between 2020 and 2030. And that has nothing to do with all that legislation coming down from Capitol Hill (as well as individual states)...
Brian HicksPosted June 8, 2007
By tripling the tax on brokerage transactions, the Chinese government succeeded, at least temporarily, in restraining the surging Chinese stock market. But my expectation is that the correction will...
Brian HicksPosted June 7, 2007
KETURA, ISRAEL: What do you get when you mix an Israeli father and a Jordanian son? A bright idea and a hundred million dollars.
Brian HicksPosted June 7, 2007
As Barry Bonds continues to assault the home run mark established by Hank Aaron in 1976, Im reminded of the last great home run record to fall. That was in 1998 as Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa...
Brian HicksPosted June 6, 2007
In the same way that the State of Israel was not born into a vacuum, it is essential to put Israel's energy development in a regional context. Today on the Red Sea, I heard European, Jordanian, and...
Brian HicksPosted June 5, 2007
As the series of cyber-attacks in Estonia demonstrated this spring, the battles of ones and zeros fought out between hackers and security experts all over the World Wide Web are by and large...
Brian HicksPosted June 1, 2007
Sam, our intrepid international investing guru, isn't here to say "I told you so." But we know he's thinking it from afar.
Brian HicksPosted May 30, 2007
Like a stealthy member of the Special Forces, the first digital intruder slipped in completely unnoticed. A collection of ones and zeroes disguised like all of the rest, it sneaked deep within the...