As can be seen from the figure, the case schiller housing index shows a second dip in the last 3 years indicating that there might be another (possible) buying opportunity for home buyers.

1 trillion china reservews - china buys treasuries -- and since liquidity is ample -- us govt pays less interest --- so less taxes for the country  --- more money to spend on cheap chinese goods -- more chinese goods brought -- chinas reserves grow ---- back to step 1

Interesting chart by the business insider which shows that it is not very useful (of course relatively) to write Facebook apps.  However, things have to still be kept in perspective. The 10% is still from a user base of 600Million+ users. Hence at any instant of time, you will have more than 60million+ users on facebook apps, which is still pretty neat.

That is what I think. :)

Time spent by a regular Facebook user.

Graph showing aaapl's performance in the smart phone market.

Apple domination of the smartphone business 2011

Windows licenses sold - IPAD responsible?

+ At 10inches the iPad 2 is too big, and Steve jobs declines to make it any smaller.
+ Multi-tasking on the iPad 2 is not as good.
+ If you want full web support, the iPad 2 is not even in the running.

The playbook is a strong competitor as of now, though it cant run quite a few android apps.


Disclosure: I am long aapl

Nice article on investopedia. Take away:

1. Use a card with little or no foreign transaction fees: E.g. that from a federal credit union (FCU). Applies only to certain FCUs though. (Please ask your bank).
2. Tell the bank in advance that you will be traveling to enable foreign transactions.
3. Sign receipts only in the local currency rates so that you will get the default competitive conversion rate.
4. Carry an ID (passport) for validation.