Industry: In search of inspiration

Some may view banjo music as an acquired taste, but that doesn’t mean the banjo market is not interesting. The LA Times recently published a profile of Deering Banjo, a San Diego based banjo maker (Deering Banjo in a groove, Feb 2).

By DNA Decoder:In the search for quality growth stocks at reasonable prices, the technology sector may be a good place to start digging. I will try to present some data in a way that allow us to better visualize the attributes of the companies of interest.

PNAS has just published my China bullet trains paper.  This work is joint with Tsinghua's Siqi Zheng.  Below, I reproduce our abstract:"Megacity growth in the developing world is fueled by a desire toaccess their large local labor markets. Growing megacities suffer

By Brian Nichols:The last year has been transcendent for cell therapy, with countless medical breakthroughs in the space. During the last year, we have made strides to learn more about its many benefits, and now the possibility of an approved cell therapy does not seem unrealistic. Therefore, in this article I am looking at the best of the best, those developments that could have industry changing effects, and could open new doors in the immediate future.

By Turnkey Analyst:The telecommunications industry is a hotbed of innovation and technological development in which markets are constantly being redefined. As such, it is an industry where it makes sense to tread carefully when selecting stocks for one’s equity portfolio.

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com   www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The great American manufacturing renaissance? Maybe not. But China is losing the low-wage edge. With manufacturing already in the doldrums, dizzying wage increases, long a reality on the factory floor, have become government policy last fall: the new leadership of the Communist Party wants disposable per-capita income to double by 2020.

During the presidential campaign, President Barack Obama put forward proposals to boost the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States.  He took credit for helping make American-made goods more competitive by pressuring the Chinese to let the yuan appreciate against the dollar. He also favored reducing corporate tax rates and energy costs and proposed eliminating a tax provision that encourages offshoring, arguing that these proposals would help bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.   The Spillover Effect  

From Jeff Jacoby's column in to