[Having lost touch with Parks for more than 25 years, Holmes drafted a letter to his old associate and gave it to a mutual friend, singer-songwriter Steve Young, to deliver.] I got a phone call from Van Dyke, ... 'Surf's up' he said. |
[He first met Wilson at the Hollywood apartment Van Dyke and his brother Carson Parks shared.] They were in the thick of Hollywood, ... I used to meet all sorts of rock people there -- Frank Zappa, Danny Hutton, Stephen Stills. People were always coming and going. It was a pretty exciting place to visit. One day, there was Brian Wilson. |
A China crash would be huge. |
Based on historic ratios between gold and oil, gold should now be over $500 an ounce, |
Confidence in the euro as an alternative to the dollar has fallen apart, |
Confidence in the euro as an alternative to the dollar has fallen apart. |
I made up a new original, ... I am an artist. |
If Alaska production continues to decline, those percentages will rise accordingly. |
It's cheaper to go out and a buy another company. |
Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount. |
Most 401(k) plans give employees limited investment choices such as domestic equity and fixed income products. Following MIT's lead, we believe other retirement platforms will broaden their offerings, as they understand the importance of how these asset classes work as part of a diversified portfolio. |
Naturally, we are honored that MIT has added our family of funds to its employees' retirement plans, |
Once reconstruction really gets under way in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we're expecting to see a surge in appliance manufacturers by mid-October, ... That could give some of the durable goods names a better profile. |
Right now, we have negative real rates of return on Treasury bills and massive deficit spending. Historically, a currency can't be strong with those two factors. |
So here comes the allegorical artwork via Van Dyke's metaphorical lyrics, |