ODD MAN OUT

Trump preps for the NATO meeting with hints that he might pull the US out of NATO https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1776326 Will Donald Trump...

FULL OF IT

Trump is hard to stomach on a daily basis. But it's even worse when he is feeling his oats https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/euphor...

THE LONG VIEW

In another huge Supreme Court case, the Janus decision turns out as expected. Public sector unions are frantic. And we see the consequences ...

5-4

Mitch McConnell's cynical ploy to prevent Obama from getting a Supreme Court nomination, and holding the vacancy open for a hard-right c...

Status Of The Local Bourse

We have had more than 30 days of straight net selling by foreign holders of local shares. Thankfully we started falling way before the ...

Financial Decision Making Mistakes

Investing is a lifelong experience and adventure, and sometimes a nightmare. Academic intelligence does not guarantee success. In fact, rote...

TRAINING WHEELS

Trump's trade war triggers this announcement from a quintessential U.S. manufacturing firm https://thinkprogress.org/harley-davidson-to-...

The Generic Pasta Recipe

Nowadays everyone can be a chef, just follow the thousands of recipes on YouTube. What is a generic pasta recipe? Here are a few tips on ho...

THE DARK SIDE

Trump has more than 25 tweets the past few days hammering the same theme over and over: the Democrats are weak on immigration -- they want ...

Snap Comments - Coffee Shop Talk

Let's all take a breath. The issues that are being debated and discussed today are good issues to have, in a totally different environm...

PROMISES, PROMISES

Trump, the Great Deal Maker, has broken countless campaign promises. Where is the infrastructure bill? Lower drug prices? His replacement fo...

"THESE AREN'T OUR KIDS"

Let's just review, shall we? An ill-considered and cruel policy to separate children from their parents is cooked up in the squalid litt...

FAKE NEWS

Yesterday we had two versions of the meeting Trump had with Congressional Repubs. When he slammed popular outgoing Rep Mark Sanford, the fak...

Kiddomo Universe - Where Playland Meets Technology

First of all, this is not paid content. I never take money for product placement for my blog. Thats why my blog is always free of ads and no...

SURRENDER

The good news is, Trump backs down on his family separation policy, putting the lie to weeks of claims that he was FORCED to separate them b...

Things To Discuss Regarding GRAB

a) Grab Food  - I don't know about you but Uber Eats was fantastic. I don't know why that even after 4 weeks of Grab taking over, Gr...

THE UGLY AMERICAN

Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric is as hateful as ever https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/racist-demagogue [Trump] "Democrats ar...

THE OUTER LIMITS

Trump wants to go back to his comic book days, and create a new military branch, a "Space Force." Problem is, the military doesn...

PBD IS BACK!

Sorry for the long, unexplained absence. I was stuck in China without a good VPN, and couldn’t access most of the web sites I needed to put ...

How Far Should The Bloodletting Go

Euromoney came up with an article which questioned how far should the "bloodletting" continue in finance in Malaysia. I bring this...

FLEECED. SNOOKERED. TAKEN TO THE BANK

Trump likes to trash every deal that is one he didn't make -- but thinks every deal HE makes is a great deal. Well, guess what? This isn...

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Trump shows up for the photo op, declares a "tremendous success" (of course), then leaves Singapore early http://nymag.com/daily/i...

LOSERS!

All of Trump's worst qualities were on display at the G7 meeting, and its aftermath https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/20...

Why Is Oil & Gas Leading The Market

We all saw the ones that got hit big time following the recent elections. Thats because construction are big ticket items and the likelihoo...

THE FU PRESIDENT

Trump's big FU to our G7 allies: arrives late, leaves early -- and makes it clear that he doesn't give a damn what they think https:...

TO RUSSIA, WITH LOVE

Trump pisses off our G7 allies, then thinks he can persuade them to re-admit Russia, who they expelled over Crimea. Russia still has Crimea ...

R.I.P. Bourdain

Almost everyone was devastated when hearing the news of his suicide. I will not pretend to know him well. His death is all the more sudden c...

IGNORANT AND LAZY

Don't know much about history https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/7/17435174/trump-trudeau-war-1812-history The Trump administration’s War ...

THE PUPPET

Stormy Daniels files a new lawsuit, alleging that her former lawyer colluded with Michael Cohen to undermine her case against Trump https://...

SELF-INCRIMINATION

How Trump's comments about presidential power are evidence of guilt (thanks to JT for the link) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Songs We Sung Before With Desperation, But Now With Hope and Joy

You cannot possibly get the lyrics to totally be in sync with what Malaysia just went through. There are enough parts in these songs for us ...

AS PLAIN AS DAY

Well, there it is. Trump and his lawyers have floated the trial balloon that he is literally above the law. And even if he were guilty he co...

Business Lessons In China, HK, Taiwan Based On The Zhang Zhiyi's Experience

Boy, I am so happy to be able to talk about Zhang Zhiyi in my blog on Asian business. Can you imagine that? Many years ago, Zhang had a wond...