Photo credit: TED This evening, The Atlantic‘s new event series, Atlantic Exchange, will host former Al Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar for a discussion I will moderate titled “Arab Revolutions Televised, Tweeted and Blogged: The Exit & Entrance Interview with Wadah Khanfar.” Khanfar is now the founding President of the Sharq Forum. This will [...]

Here are some thoughts on the churn inside Egypt over pro-Democracy NGO institutions that I shared on Al Jazeera yesterday. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham see the crisis coming to a close soon, with the NGO workers released. I hope this is the case — but the now politically dominant Muslim Brotherhood’s support for [...]

My latest contribution to Alterio’s weekly market review introduces two new metrics–the “original sin” calculation mentioned in my previous post which plays upon a theme explored by Barry Eichengreen, Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizz back in 2003, namely per Paul Krugman “the long-standing notion that developing economies are especially vulnerable to financial crises because they borrowed [...]

  Yesterday, I discussed 3 killer ways to build your online empire. I said that the 3 ways work really well if you want to build a solid sideline (that could outright surpass your main source of income one day!). However, the 3 ways require a lot of work and time to succeed. If you [...]

After today’s regular trading session, Credit Suisse (CS) announced in a brief press release that it has “temporarily suspended further issuances of the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETNs (TVIX) due to internal limits on the size of the ETNs.” The company added that “[t]his suspension does not affect the Early Redemption rights of noteholders [...]

With the sudden success of TVIX, it seems as if the entire VIX exchange-traded product (ETP) space has a large number of new converts. Growing from just two products at the end of 2009 (VXX and VXZ) to 12 by the end of 2010 and 31 by the end of 2011, VIX ETPs are a [...]

Brian Tracy with some healthy common sense:

I read this yesterday: For Boomers, It’s a New Era of ‘Work ‘Til You Drop’ This part of the article in particular really stood out to me (bold mine): For more than 30 years, Stewart ran his own photography business, doing everything from studio portraits to illustrating annual reports for hospitals and other large corporations [...]

Thousands of people who tuned into Tuesday night’s “National Teach-In to Take Back the American Dream” got a remarkable one-hour tutorial on how the economy collapsed, and with it the economic security of millions of working Americans. They also received a sobering reminder that the political system that set the stage for the collapse can’t [...]

Thanks in large part to the phenomenon of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, 2008 was known as the year of the small donor. While Barack Obama can’t called it’s herald, his decision to accept, if not embrace, the reality of super PACs suggests that the 2012 presidential election — the first post-Citizens United presidential election — [...]