This past Friday marked my two-month point of living in China. Admittedly, it’s been a roller coaster of emotions since I arrived. I came here searching for evidence that China really is the mi

Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

The G-7 meeting has concluded and the only accomplishment was yapping about the need for a strong dollar. Consider G-7 Finance Chiefs Campaign for “Strong Dollar”.   Finance chief

  There’s just one problem with corn-based ethanol: It takes 29% more fossil energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the ethanol release when burned as fuel. The disparity betwee

  Once upon a time, Dubai existed as a vast desert of nothingness, inhabited by Bedouins and pearl divers. But then they built it, and they came. And then they left.

During the politically charged period in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- when China believed it really needed friends -- a small number of Western companies ignored the controversies and refused to

Editor's Note: Minyanville is excited to introduce Gerry Sweeney as the newest contributor to our community. Gerry has been involved in the water space for nearly ten years. Currently, he's the Portf

I've just returned from a 2-week trip to China arranged by my longtime travel agent, wife, and traveling companion, Nicole. We visited Hong Kong, Beijng, and the Xi'an and Chungching “resettlem

I can recite the 15 or so stops on New Jersey Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line in my sleep. I’ve made the trip from New York to Long Branch more often than I’d like to consider. My

 "The fog of war" is a term generally attributed to Robert McNamara, President Kennedy’s secretary of defense during the Vietnam era. At times, the discussion about the global fi