Here is Jim Rogers breaking down the economic impact of Japan disaster:
“normally when something like this happens it leads to a chance to buy things , all man made or natural disasters in the past meant that you could buy something, now I am not buying anything I am just watching at the moment , this is horrible and we do not know how it all gonna wind up, I would thing buying commodities would be better than buying stocks but I might buy both”, says Jim Rogers
Here is a recent question from one of our readers:
“I respect your writing style and literary swagger, and I enjoy the hell out of your content. Keep it up.
I hold down a very respectable (redacted) startup in its (redacted) year, (redacted) employees, annual rev around $(redacted)m. We sell (redacted) to medium and large firms. I am not the owner but I have respectable share in the company, and I function as a vice president.
Many business employ women in their marketing departments. I bang on average at least one client every 4 months, often more now the recession is over. How advisable is this? I’m not asking at a dating advice level, I’m asking for sheer baller status. Is it weak sauce game to pounce so heavily where ones money cometh from? Does banging clients over time erode your ability to extract more funds from them? Guy from Mad Men wouldnt care but his world had very different parameters than ours does.
Just curious. I am a complete loss for whether this is good, bad or neither.
Thanks brother, keep tossing out that fuego,
(redacted)”
Excellent question.
I have never watched “Mad Men” but I am familiar with the gist of the show. (It is amazing how many people mention this show to me, I probably need to watch it sometime).
And yes, our world has changed a lot in comparison to years gone by. I often rap out and watch big boxing matches at this older biz cat’s crib that I am good friends with. He is always talking about the glory days of when he would drink non-stop at work and swoop his secretaries. But that is neither high heels nor greased up construction deals.
To get back to the heart of your question, I would say for sure it’s a bad move.
Thankfully, I have most of my life been working in “industries” where there are not many women around. And I like it this way. I like separating women and biz, since the two mix together like combustible pool chemicals.
Often I have been enticed by “glamour businesses” where you can swoop mad girls along with work (coincidentally, I almost just invested in one with a lot of model swooping upside), but I have been glad that I haven’t gotten involved. Bottom line:
1. Glamour businesses always seem difficult to get your money out
2. I love women as much as the next psychotic International Playboy, but hanging out with them 24/7 is for the weesh
3. See #2
Swooping work girls is understandable if those “work girls” happen to be Models (or girls with Beauty, Intelligence, Money and Family. BIMF’s) .
But 9-5 girls? No shot.
And all that extra risk for an additional 3 swoops per year? Better off taking a Mini-Retirement to Las Vegas and increase those numbers 10 fold.
Most importantly, you never want to mess with anything that can potentially jeopardize your CASH flow.
Anyone who reads The G Manifesto knows I don’t get impressed easily by modern day nightlife in general or modern day nightclubs in particular. Especially in America which has been on a heavy downward slide (in fact, if I was the owner of even some of the best American nightclubs I would commit suicide because of the pathetic product they are serving up). In Bogotá however there are a couple of places that impressed the hell out of me:
Andres Carne de Res
The New York Times called Andres Carne de Res “profound, spellbinding, beautiful, tumultuous, confusing and fattening all at once“. I am not sure about the “fattening” part, but it’s a pretty accurate description. Andres Carne de Res does that thing that seems to be impossible to do in America: combining a great restaurant with a great nightclub. Even more amazing is that is does both at the same time.
Here is how the place breaks down:
– Five or Six floors with a couple of “half floors”
– holds 1200 people ( I did some math in my gulliver and the place is clocking un-Godly dough)
– Way more girls than guys
– Insane meat grinds
– Great Service (It is incredible that this place even functions with all the mayhem and food service, but it does)
– Open super late
– Mindblowing energy levels
– Performace art
– Everyone, and I mean everyone is dancing non-stop
Fly girls, steaks served at all hours, crazy dancing? I think I found heaven on Earth.
(Side note: the original is outside the city in Chia. I didn’t go, but it is supposed to hold 3000 people. I can only imagine how dope that place is.)
Salto del Angel
Kind of similar to Andres Carne de Res only smaller and the food isn’t quite as good.
Insane Vibe, dancing and fly girls though.
Your life wouldn’t be complete without at least 20 nights in each of these places.
And swooping mass amounts of fly Colombianas while you are at it.
It took just under 12 rounds of the fight but Miguel Cotto, 36-2 (29), achieved the knockout he promised to deliver by the end of the final heat, successfully defending his WBA junior middleweight belt and sending former welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga, 29-8-2 (23), into retirement at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Things started off with both Cotto and Mayorga attempting to land solid shots in order to establish who the bigger puncher was. As Cotto landed some clean bombs, Mayorga replied with strong shots of his own.
Mayorga was blasted with a left hook to the jaw and as a result was backed up into the ropes. Mayorga played off his condition by trying to goad Cotto into a power exchange against the ropes. Cotto took his time as he patiently glided into range and unleashed some strong shots.
The tone of the fight was set as Cotto established his range and connected with power jabs that eventually would swell up Mayorga’s right eye. To Mayorga’s credit, he was game and continued gain an advantage but his free-swinging style allowed Cotto to show off some improved defense and balance as he avoided most of the big shots.
Cotto looked great in this one, and Mayorga looked good as well. Not bad for a 10-1 underdog.
Sergio Martinez Stops Sergiy Dzinziruk in Eight, Defends Middleweight Championship
The 2010 “Fighter of the Year” didn’t do anything to take himself out of the running for that honor in 2011.
Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez retained his title with an eighth-round stoppage of Sergiy Dzinziruk Saturday at the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods.
Martinez, 47-2-2 (26), dropped Dzinziruk five times in the fight, including three times in the eighth, before referee Arthur Mercante stopped it at 1:43.
“I wanted to nullify his boxing, nullify his punches, nullify his jab,” Martinez said. “Little by little, I did that.”
Dzinziruk, 37-1 (23), fought in a tight defensive shell but kept coming forward, while Martinez kept moving around the ring, letting his hands go more often. In the eighth, Martinez dropped Dzinziruk with right hooks three times, with Dzinziruk landing hard on his shoulder each time.
“I had to open up more and I did, but it didn’t help,” said Dzinziruk. “The knockdowns were not hard punches but they were perfect shots.”
