Some of my thoughts about 1913 Intel and the future

Posted by Matt in November 22nd, 2009 | 7 comments

Published in general, 1913 Intel, Apex, Blow, China War, Criticality, Dead Trees, Decline Of America, Economic Instability, Ethnic Conflict, Fire Fighters, Fire Model, Focus, Forest Fire, Forest Fires, Gold, Intel, Iran, mahdi, Nuclear Arms, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Perfect Storm, Preemptive Strike, Russia, United States, War Empires, War In The Middle East

The primary focus of 1913 Intel is to report news about problems and dangers that could affect all of us in the future. I want to know before the problems get here so I have time to prepare. Right now I’m very focused on more financial problems in the near future, instability in China and [...]

Why This Real Estate Bust Is Different – BusinessWeek

Posted by Matt in November 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, 1960s, Apex, Billionaire, Blowup, Boom And Bust, Businessweek, Bust Cycle, Casualty, Commercial Real Estate, CommercialRealEstate, Downturn, Elkin, Fraud, Gold, Goldman, Housing Market, Investor, Property Price Index, RealEstate, Stratospheric Prices, Trillion, Unrealistic Assumptions, Wilbur Ross

Unrealistic assumptions, layers of investors, sky-high prices, and possible fraud will make it hard to clean up the mess in commercial real estate
It would be easy to write off this blowup as just another casualty in the regular boom-and-bust cycle of the $6.4 trillion commercial real estate market. But the Goldman deal, with its unrealistic [...]

Dubai’s the World: Empty Islands After Property Bust – TIME

Posted by Matt in November 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Dubai, 21st Century, 50 Million, Apex, Boom, Celebrities, Developers, Dollar Project, Dubai, Excesses, Headlines, Ingenuity, Invitation, Mankind, Multibillion Dollar, Point Of View, Property Bust, Spits, Sportsmen, Tycoons

Depending on your point of view, the World is either the apex of mankind’s ingenuity or a cautionary tale about the feverish excesses of Dubai’s 21st century boom. Each island was selling for $15 million to $50 million, by invitation only: its developers were pitching the spits of land to tycoons, sportsmen and celebrities. But [...]

Losing the Cold Peace

Posted by Matt in July 21st, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Russia, Apex, Authoritarian, Capitalist Powers, China, Cold Peace, Defeat Of Japan, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Germany, Military Power, National Security, Russia, Security Specialist, Soviet Union, Tel Aviv University, Third World, Victory

“China and Russia represent the return of economically successful authoritarian capitalist powers, which have been absent since the defeat of Japan and Germany in 1945,” writes Azar Gat, a national security specialist at Tel Aviv University, in Foreign Affairs magazine.
Ironically, at precisely the moment when America’s military power appears to be at its apex, the [...]