Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you probably know that silver has had a major correction over the past week. The precious metal plummeted about 30% from a high of almost $50 an ounce to less than $35 yesterday. This six-day drop is one of the largest since 1983. Silver has given back […]
Deepwater Horizon Rig Disaster Threatens Drilling
BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]
National Dementia Strategy Consultative Meeting of Experts ‘Western India’
A National Dementia Strategy Consultative Meeting of Experts ‘Western India’ was held at the YMCA International, Mumbai Central on 25th & 26th April 2009. The Theme of this meeting was : “INTEGRATED DEMENTIA CARE “ .This meeting of experts was Organized by Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI) National Office and Mumbai Chapter […]
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited
Some 13 months ago I first posited an oncoming phenomenon I identified as The Great Leveling — which referred to a four-to-six-year-long series of crises in America and abroad that were all tied to addiction, and featured a mass downward spiral leading to two more results: hitting bottom and then embracing a far-too-long absent Humility […]
The Experiment
The Experiment Book Extract: Please, Mom! It’s My Life ISBN: 9788122309739 Author: Dr. Jaideep Singh Chadha Publisher: Pustak Mahal (www.pustakmahal.com) I have gone through a whole lot of definitions of stress and I feel that this one is the best of them all. STRESS IS THE DEMAND MADE UPON THE ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES OF OUR MIND […]
Fed Uncertainty Looms With Pullback On The Street
Fed Uncertainty Looms With Pullback On Wall Street By 1:46 pm Eastern, all three major averages in New York are well into the red: The Dow down 0.43 percent, the NASDAQ down 0.41 percent, and the S&P500 index giving in three quarters of a percent (Yahoo Finance). Although stocks started out with modest gains in […]