No one is electing me President of the United States anytime soon, but that doesn’t stop me from talking about what message I’d have sent to the Chinese if I had been in President Obama’s shoes on his trip to China this month.   As an American businessman who maintains offices...

I was interviewed recently on CNBC’s Closing Bell show on the investment opportunities Americans have with Chinese businesses, and the show’s host Maria Bartiromo mentioned the bad air and water quality that troubled her during her visit to China.  Bartiromo is certainly not alone in her observations, but what most...

History shows that countries demonstrate their greatest strength when they are at war.  People unify for a common cause, reduce their individual needs and wants and sacrifice for the greater good.  We think of wars as being fought with weapons and soldiers, but the war of the new millennium is...

If I told you that General Electric has grown four times faster than its competition for decades, and will continue to do so for years to come, yet it stock trades well below its competition, wouldn't you sell your car to buy as much GE stock as you could? The...

As the president and founder of an international financial consulting company that works closely with Chinese companies seeking to go public on U.S. stock market exchanges, I see the enormity of China's global financial influence and power on a daily basis. American assets are at such low historical values, they...

Are there opportunities for going public in the current recessionary climate? While the number of traditional IPO's have slowed to a crawl, reverse mergers are continuing their ascent in popularity with 222 reverse merger deals in 2007 valued at US $8.36 billion, a 14 percent increase over the previous year...