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POPSCERES in my mind nao sai da minha cabeça que poderia estar arrebendando a boca do balao agora e estou em casa esperando a morte da bezerra....
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POPSOil price: A turning tide? Oil price A turning tide? May 13th 2009 From Economist.com The oil price rises amid hints of economic recovery THE price of oil reached over $60 a barrel during intraday trading on Wednesday May 13th, its highest point since November. Glimmers of economic recovery, such as an increase in imports from China, together with a weak dollar and tight supply forecasts have pushed up the prices of many commodities. Coffee, sugar and wheat have all hit modest peaks this week. Exporters of commodities would welcome an upturn in prices for food and other raw materials and those worried by deflation might also cheer rising prices. But consumers already battered by the economic slump, especially in poor countries, will not be pleased by rising costs.
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POPSBon vivants Where people spend most time on simple pleasures ENJOYING a leisurely meal or just getting enough sleep can seem like luxuries. But not so in France, where people spend more time dining, imbibing and snoozing than anywhere else in the mostly-rich countries of the OECD. Americans also get a lot of shut-eye, but (fond of fast food) probably suffer indigestion along with neighbouring Mexicans and Canadians. South Koreans and Japanese reportedly survive on an hour's less sleep than the French.
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POPSWorld: Most pop museums FOR many tourists, a city break would be incomplete without visiting a musem or gallery to take in some culture. Last year, the Louvre in Paris attracted the highest number of visitors—8.5m people streamed through to peer at the Mona Lisa and the other treasures within. The French capital punches above its weight with another three museums high up on a list of favourites compiled by the Art Newspaper. Galleries in New York, London and Rome reap the benefits of high numbers of tourists. Free entry at London's galleries has also boosted visitors.
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POPSJobless claims jump, durable goods orders plunge Two closely watched economic reports delivered more bad news Thursday: New claims for unemployment insurance jumped, pushing the number of people on benefit rolls over 5 million, and orders to factories for durable goods plunged a bigger-than-expected 5.2% in January. The government says orders for big-ticket goods expected to last at least 3 years plunged as global economic troubles cut into demand from customers both in the United States and abroad.
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POPSThe water needed to produce everyday goods and beverages WATER is a precious commodity, as any farmer in drought-besieged parts of China, America or Kenya knows only too well. Consumers may already be aware of the environmental impact of producing goods in terms of energy or pollution, but they might be surprised to learn how much water is needed to create some daily goods. A cup of coffee, for example, needs a great deal more water than that poured into the pot. According to a new book on the subject, 1,120 litres of water go into producing a single litre of the beverage, once growing the beans, packaging and so on are measured. Only 120 litres go into making the same amount of tea. As many as four litres of water are used to make a litre of the bottled stuff. Household items are even thirstier. Thousands of litres are needed to make shoes, hamburgers and microchips.
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POPSLife satisfaction Self-satisfied? Feb 16th 2009 From Economist.com A poll of middle-class attitudes in emerging economies ECONOMIC studies of the middle classes are plentiful, but opinion-poll research is thin on the ground. So The Economist asked the Pew Research Center to trawl through its Global Attitudes database. Pew looked at 13 middle-income countries where the middle class is large or growing and classified their responses on various issues according to income. “Middle class” is defined as a self-reported income of at least $4,286 a year in 2007 PPP dollars. (The rich were included but the numbers were statistically insignificant.) Latin American countries report high levels of “life satisfaction” among both middle- and low-income groups. Generally the middle classes tend to be happier with their lives than those on lower incomes, apart from in Venezuela, where Hugo Chávez's socialist revolution has taken its toll.
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POPSRadical in the White House For one day, for one hour, let us take a bow as a country. Nearly 233 years after our founding, 144 years after the close of our Civil War and 46 years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, this crazy quilt of immigrants called Americans finally elected a black man, Barack Hussein Obama, as president. Walking back from the inauguration, I saw an African-American street vendor wearing a home-stenciled T-shirt that pretty well captured the moment — and then some. It said: “Mission Accomplished.”
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POPSFRIEDMAN: The Great Unraveling The stranger, a Western businessman, slipped into the chair next to me at an Asia Society lunch here in Hong Kong and asked me a question that I can honestly say I’ve never been asked before: “So, just how corrupt is America?” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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POPSDollar Exhausted? Maybe.....time will tell... For the next six months at least, markets are likely to be very choppy. Dynamic long-short/market neutral strategies will provide the best returns in COMMODITIES. ;-)
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POPSAfrica: Paradox of Plenty INTERACTIVE While Africa is blessed with much natural wealth — gold, diamonds, ores from tin to uranium, oil and ivory — it has also long been a target for plunder. Listen to Ian Fisher recount how some, mostly outsiders, built great fortunes off of Africa's material riches — and for centuries its people as well — while it remained the poorest continent in the world. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/world/africa/20081215-africa-resources-graphic.html
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POPSTerror MUMBAI http://noticias.terra.com.br/mundo/interna/0,,OI3356536-EI8143,00-Mumbai+capturado+terrorista+envolvido+em+atentado.html
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POPSCHIP Mr. Barton equates the two by comparing a city the size of Ithaca, N.Y., to the continent of Europe. “Ithaca is quite complex in its own right if you think of all that goes on,” he said. “If we scale up the population to 730 million, we come to Europe as about the right size. Now take Europe and shrink it until it all fits in about the same land mass as Ithaca.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/technology/companies/17chip.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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POPSGoldbugs Significantly, even observers who have historically been very cautious about allegations of government interference in gold seem now to be accepting the thesis.
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POPSFRIEDMAN: How to fix a flat Somebody ought to call Steve Jobs and ask him if he’d like to run a car company for a year. It wouldn’t take him long to come up with the G.M. iCar. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12friedman.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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