Monthly Archives: July 2008

My book “What do you want to do with your life?” got a positive review on LifeHacker.com. Review on LifeHacker.com So far my book has been downloaded 10 000+ times on that review alone, dozens and dozens of emails. This is good.

The Dow has rallied 450 points this week. This is still a bear market rally. The housing, credit card, lending mess in USA is way from over. There will be panic as dozens of smaller banks go belly up, and finally when the big ones are bailed out. Contraction. Profit warnings. Losses. We have only […]

Statoil and Norsk Hydro merged and named themselves StatoilHydro. Please. The Norwegian Governments oil company “stat oil” should be named Statoil. End of story.

Some things are worth repeating; Do not invest in Russia. They will have your lunch one way or the other. Russia comes up again and again. The prospects of wast natural resources and lots of very bright and privately pleasant people is enduring and alluring. But Russia has no culture for rule of law or […]

We have told you to sell since November 2007. The markets are heading south, even from here, big time south. The strength in the uptick from the FED rate cuts are way gone. The FED will cut to 1% eventually. The market is heading down. If you have followed my advice and shorted the market, […]

StatoilHydro is being pressured by Washington to end it’s engagement in Iran. This would be wrong. Iran has done nothing to StatoilHydro or to Norway. StatoilHydro obviously thinks their engagement with Iran is good for business and should therefore continue that. Business promotes peace. Overall StatoilHydro and Norway should take a tougher pose towards the […]