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Interested in the details about these much talked about and little understood funds? Here’s an outstanding piece in Middle East Quarterly about the investment funds you are hearing more about in the news. Countries have used sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as instruments through which to buy assets with their surplus foreign exchange since the 1950s [...]
I went over to PG&E, my local utility company, to setup automatic payment of my bill. I hate bill paying so having stuff get automatically paid is great for me, and better yet is the points I accumulate that turn into Apple iTunes gift cards on a regular basis from using my Apple Visa card. [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the Techmeme blogger reaction to Google Sites, basically critical of it because it’s a pattern that is all too familiar: Google comes out with something new or updated and says it’s x or y and A-list blogger first reaction is to throw the company up on their shoulders and take a [...]