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On Critics and Cheerleaders
Written By: Eben Esterhuizen
2007-09-04 00:52:32

Photo:Ben Bawden, Creative Commons, Flickr
The drive for carbon reduction has many critics. Brace yourself for a heated lecture if you are lucky enough to bump into one of these critics at your next house party. They will spend hours telling you about the true origins of global warming, and they will blame rising food prices on the push for biofuels.

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On Smoking Cannabis, Cavemen, Giants and Predicting Stock Markets
Written By: Eben Esterhuizen
2008-01-30 20:48:51
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, lived a hairy caveman. After a long hard day of hunting mammoths and avoiding saber-tooth tigers, he scratched his nose and it started raining. He didn't think much of it at first and ran back to his cave into the arms of his loving cavewoman. The next day he scratched his nose again and voila! It rained again. The caveman came to an important conclusion: "if" he scratches his nose, "then" it rains. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, but at least he had a way to cope with the randomness of nature and had assurance that he had some control over the arbitrary events of his life. He spent the rest of his days devising an intricate system to optimize the results of his nose-scratching activity. It was the birth of the "science" of prediction.

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On Stock Market Volatility and Marriage
Written By: Eben Esterhuizen
2007-08-13 19:43:12
A recent WSJ article points out that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 82% since the last bull market began on October 9, 2002. It feels like a lifetime ago, but U.S. stocks hit record highs just three weeks ago. Given the strong run the bull market has had, there are still more bulls than bears out there, so brace yourself for more downside as bulls cash in.

The current market turmoil has not fully run its course. And given the close correlation between divorce and market volatility, marriages could follow the stock market down the tubes.

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Peace! If You Want a Strong U.S. Dollar
Written By: Eben Esterhuizen
2007-11-11 19:16:36
A picture, even if it is as aesthetically pleasing as this piece of garbled mish mash, says a thousand words. In a previous article I suggested that coordinated central bank intervention to save the U.S. dollar from its slippery slide could be an effective tool to knock down lofty oil prices. Lower oil prices would hurt Iran where it matters most and halt their nuclear ambitions. But let’s take this idea a step further - in the same way a strong U.S. dollar could prevent a confrontation with Iran, does a strong U.S. dollar improve stability in the Middle East?

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Politicians Take Solar's Sexy Back
Written By: Eben Esterhuizen
2007-11-20 02:13:17
Good ol' Jay Leno once said that "politics is just show business for ugly people". And thanks to the politicians the sexy solar sector just got ugly. Solar investors have been driving up valuations as if solar was going to take over the world tomorrow, and these investors have now been forced to wake up to reality and smell the coffee. Why? “Poli” - a Latin word meaning “many,” and "tics" - meaning “bloodsucking creatures”. That's why.

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