September 22, 2016
India’s Masses Get Ready for the Digital Revolution As global investors, we try to position ourselves in front of powerful secular trends — social, economic, and technological changes powerful enough to transform the societies in which they occur and reward the innovators who enable those changes. One of the most Read more
September 15, 2016
Step Aside, Boomers: “Gen Y” and “Gen Z” Will Soon Be Driving the Global Economy With apologies to the Baby Boomers, they like to talk about themselves. We’ve read a lot about the influence Boomers have had on U.S. culture and politics. The present writer sat with a group of Read more
September 08, 2016
EpiPen Pricing: Much Ado About Nothing Drug prices are back in the news, this time focused on the epinephrine auto-injector marketed by Mylan [NASDAQ: MYL] as “EpiPen.” EpiPen is a life-saving product for those at risk of anaphylaxis — a severe allergic reaction which in different individuals can be Read more
September 02, 2016
The Real Source of Wealth A decade ago, the World Bank published a study exploring the wealth of the world’s nations — specifically, trying to tally that wealth and identify where it resides. (Interested readers can find it here.) In typical World Bank fashion, the authors mined dozens of data-sets. Read more
August 26, 2016
Market Summary Pundits Are Wrong Again: Europe Continues to Grow post-Brexit Prior to the Brexit vote, many pundits were pushing the narrative that Brexit fears would create a big decline in business’ expansion plans. They believed that the fear of future economic decline would make businesses want to retrench. It Read more