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Knowledge is a public good for the benefit of all. Acting on this philosophy, EduLab is a model for an alternative knowledge environment and experience, not simply a new e-learning community. EduLab is committed to be open, free, comfortable, inspiring, and practical.
There is no limit to the power of the mind. Convinced of this truth, EduLab model integrates and centralizes multistream channels of contents into a dynamic learner-centered learning experience. EduLab does not replace traditional educational and research institutions but it does all what they do not do.
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Reading the graph: financial data & geopolitics |
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We took the 10-year total return performance of the S&P 500 back to 1900 (non-inflation adjusted) and charted the results below. When the line is highlighted in red, 10-year returns were lower than they are now.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:09 |
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2008: financial or breakdown crisis? Strategic Outlook |
The correlation between economic and financial data with geopolitics endeavours suggests that no long-term economic and financial solution can be implemented without first re-defining a sustainable geopolitical environment. Today time is not ripe to change the 1944-45 balance of world powers. Sooner rather than later it will be possible to tackle this critical issue and to found a more inclusive international governance system, though establishing a new world order. However, it is of paramount importance that the debate and the diplomatic negotiations resume as soon as possible around the reform of the Security Council of the United Nations. The WTO model may prove useful also to reform the IMF and the World Bank systems. This would probably spare the world new geopolitical tensions and armed conflicts.
Politics first!
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Last Updated on Monday, 23 February 2009 03:55 |
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Long-term historical performances are no more familiar: the lost decade |
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If you were fortunate enough to buy the S&P 500 at the very bottom in October 2002, your investment would be up 68%. Unfortunately but most likely, 99% of investors didn't buy at the bottom. Instead, investors probably worked their way into long positions in 2003 and 2004 once the market proved it could sustain a clear up trend. Below we highlight the returns of an investment in the S&P 500 if you bought at the start of each year and held until now. As shown, unless you bought at the start of 2003, you'd have gains of less than 20% in all instances. And buying at the start of 2007 and 2008 would have resulted in negative returns.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:31 |
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