By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 30 July 2010 As mentioned time and time again to our clients worldwide, we at Blackhawk never supported bailouts but rather believe it would be much better to let bailed out companies fail, rather than wait for a number of them to happen all at once. The system c...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 21 July 2010 “We have had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.” I wish these words, spoken in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, were not as true...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 18 July 2010 Taking a walk down memory lane or for those who don’t know that Spain was the first global Superpower with gold and silver flowing in from its American colonies, the Hapsburg dynasty became the dominant power in Europe. It controlled rich parts of It...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 15 July 2010 Regardless of one’s opinion on Ben Bernanke, there is no denying the extraordinary impact he has had on the Federal Reserve since taking over as Chairman in 2006. A case can be made that the very nature and scope of the Fed has changed under Bernanke...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 12 July 2010 Why are oil companies like British Petroleum being allowed to drill so deeply in hazardous conditions under the Gulf? In other words, why has the government been so supportive of deepwater drilling in the Gulf? The answer is that there is a tremendou...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 9 July 2010 There is a new and unique development in human history that is taking place around the world today. It is unprecedented in reach and volume, and it is also the greatest threat to all global power structures: the ‘global political awakening.’ The term...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 6 July 2010 It is a fact that water use is today rising at double the rate of global population growth owing to urbanization, more water-intensive agricultural products, growing industrialization of emerging markets and the impact of climate change. The supply o...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 1 July 2010 I am frequently asked by friends how I foresee the Middle East’s near future given the rising political tensions and the alarming buildup of arsenal throughout the region. Although I am neither a “crystal ball” reader nor “Dr. Doom” , I am afraid tha...
