A few weeks ago, my partner in this blog posted a note about possible technology venture investing in Brazil. This is something I know something about since I was a graduate student at Stanford during 1997 to 2000 (roughly the top of the technology “bubble”). This is a topic you don’t really hear much about.Continue reading “Best Technology Blogs in the United States”
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CNN Zakaria: US in danger of falling behind… Brazil
I found the following quotation from one of the panelists on Zakaria’s CNN Sunday Show interesting. The transcript is here. The panelists is saying that the United States needs to invest more in Research and Development so that America will be able to compete with Brazil, among other countries! Here is the statement: “But IContinue reading “CNN Zakaria: US in danger of falling behind… Brazil”
CNN Fareed Zakaria recommends Emerging Markets Business Book
My previous views as an American on an American media source (PBS Newshour) appear to have caused some interesting comments, which I appreciate. So, here is another perhaps provocative view: My favorite Sunday morning journalist is Fareed Zakaria. His network, CNN, is not a public television show by any means. Zakaria studied at Harvard withContinue reading “CNN Fareed Zakaria recommends Emerging Markets Business Book”
Brazil on the PBS Newshour
Here in the United States, the Newshour (previously the McNeil/ Lehrer Newshour) is a very well respected news source because it is a public television (and therefore more objective and less commercial) source of information. There is a series on Brazil running next week, with the first report today. The link is below. The correspondentContinue reading “Brazil on the PBS Newshour”
On the topic of Brazilian Wealth
ITAU UNIBANCO Equity Strategy: Riche Comme un Brésilien The expression “riche comme un Argentin” became popular in Paris, at the end of the 18th century, and continued to be used until the early 1930s. The phrase was generally used to describe any wealthy individual, suggesting he or she was as rich as an Argentine—this wasContinue reading “On the topic of Brazilian Wealth”
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