People frequently tell me that I should not disclose so much information about myself as it could potentially be used by criminals, kidnappers and the like to harm me or my family. Interestingly, it is mostly my German friends who tend to argue this point. Germans, as Americans, seem to...

Al Qaeda's actions on 9/11 2001 changed America's view of the world. After the terrorist attacks the Bush administration came to the conclusion that America as a whole was under attack from the Middle East and that the solution was to move that war away from home into the Muslim...

The Iraqi and Afghan military interventions have caused the death of over a million people, have cost trillions of dollars, have greatly weakened the US military, have increased the budget deficit, have hurt the dollar, have resulted in much greater terrorism in the Middle East (now expanding into Pakistan), and...

I am a pilot. Not a professional pilot, as in real life I am a CEO of Fon a tech company. But in my spare time I became a pilot and fly a small jet, a Citation Jet. During my training as a pilot I was shocked to find...

The news of Andrew McLaughlin's departure from Google to work as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Obama administration just came out in the New York Times. The article mentions that there are critics who believe that this move will benefit Google as a company. I have a response...

If you still think about Spain as a conservative, Catholic country you can change your mind. Spain is one of the most liberal and secular countries on the planet now, up there with The Netherlands. Gambling, prostitution, are either legal or losely regulated. Even downloading movies and music is legal...

So far I have had 3 Kindles. Two came as a gift (one from Jeff Bezos). They did not last much in my hands. Alexa my eldest daughter got the first one and Isabella, my second daughter, the second one. They read more books than I do, they deserved them....

What I like about Joshua Cooper Ramo's book, the Age of the Unthinkable, is that it it starts with the premise that complexity in world affairs is here to stay. Maybe it is Joshua's background in physics that has made him see foreign policy as an area where Heisenberg's

I live in Spain. I used to live in America, Manhattan to be precise. I moved to Spain because this country has an economy the size of California but interestingly people here both work less and worry less than in California, not a small achievement. While in Spain I built...

As we watch the Big Three CEOs and their staff parade through Washington asking for help why are not we considering saving two out of the three automakers? I know that the way Paulson helped his former buddies at Goldman Sachs letting Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and even Merrill Lynch...

I write one of the most popular blogs in the Spanish language. I have good and bad news to report from the Spanish world vis a vis Obama.

The good news about Barack Hussein Obama is that 87% of my Spanish readers would...

If I had to give a prize to the craziest financial story of the year this one would win it. Look at what is going on right now. Morgan Stanley shares are down 26% and Goldman Sachs 11% because Volkswagen shares are up 90% today and up from...

When I was in college Prince used to sing "we are going to party like it´s 1999". Surprisingly that´s what the markets are singing now. 1999 was almost a decade ago but the value of stocks now is the value of stocks in 1999. If you had kept a...

Salaries in the US government are low compared to the private sector. Salaries in the banking world are the highest in the world. Last year the top investment banks paid out $33 billion dollars in bonuses to their employees. The Average compensation among managers of investment banks was over a...

United States, please tell every bank depositor that all their savings in US banks, regardless of the amount, are insured by the FDIC. Not doing this is creating silent runs on banks. Especially from big customers who can go outside the U.S. Moreover, it is making people move away from...

We live in a strange world now. A world in which Western democracies are broke and totalitarian regimes are flooded with cash. Examples of people with cash: the Saudis, the Chinese, the Russians. Example of people without cash. The Americans. So how can we make the people with cash give...

I used to live in the US. I live in Spain. I moved in 95. When I moved to Spain the US economy dwarfed the Spanish economy. This morning I went into Yahoo Finance and started checking out market caps of US versus Spanish companies. Yes companies from Spain, that...