I recently wrote an article for Investor’s Digest May 2 issue entitled “Market cycles—timing is everything.” It sheds ( I am told) welcome light on the significance of shorter market cycles within long secular trends and the recent run in commodity and stock markets.

Investor’s Digest is a subscription publication but they have provided my blog readers with a one page pdf free copy of the article here. The full publication is available in stores now.   more »

There are days when we humans can seem hopelessly doomed. You know the drill: "the world is doomed to self-destruct, resistance is futile." I say bunk. That is just jargon for "I am too lazy to change any of my habits and ideas." There is no species on the planet that can respond with the creativity and genius of human beings when we focus our minds on devising solutions. Life is really busy. We don't have time in our day to debate with people over whether change is needed. The question is only how best can we get on with the change? In this sense, we need to ask each other only "who here is prepared to help with this work?" Helpers please step up to the front, nay-sayers and doomsayers please step out of our way.

An inspiring article in April's Canadian Geographic magazine caught our attention this month, "Sun power: How Ontario is jump-starting the solar-energy economy."

Although arguably the most obvious, perfect and available energy source on this planet, sun power has been so far little championed in a world battling over black gold.

"The sun fires enough energy at the Earth in a single hour to satisfy the world's electricity cravings for an entire year." Read this sentence over a few times and let it sink in.


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