Sector 10 is an up-and-coming company that has taken the business of safety to another level. The company is working to redefine the emergency response paradigm from centralized equipment staging to onsite pre-deployed resources. Sector 10 is the only emergency response systems company so strongly emphasizing pre-deployed resources as the way to save lives, avert injuries and reduce liability.

While the young company has made its mark in the United States, Sector 10 is starting to become an international power in the marketplace. Sector 10 has a mission to bring premier capabilities to where their clients need them. Currently, 25 countries have called Sector 10 with interest in the array of services offered by the company. In a time when the emergency response paradigm is so integral to success and safety of the world, there have never been more opportunities for Sector 10 to position themselves to meet the needs of

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Remember when America was going to hell in a hand basket if Congress didn’t pass Hank Paulson’s bailout bill? Well, guess what? Congress did pas the bill, and the markets have been sliding ever since. Justice Litle says that’s because Pualson’s bill was a fudge…and a poorly sold one at that.

This from Taipan Daily:

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson didn’t want things to go this way.

As the ex-head of Goldman Sachs and a die-hard free-markets advocate, he didn’t want to become a de facto socialist (buying stakes in the banks) any more than George Bush did.

But he and Bush have no one none to blame but themselves (and maybe Greenspan) in being forced to swallow this bitter pill.

Commitment to principle is worthless without the substance and the means to defend it.

As the banking crisis unfolded — a crisis of Wall Street’s making,

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It feels like yesterday when I nervously posted my first article in the blogosphere a little more than a year ago. And not in my wildest dreams did I imagine the extraordinarily fulfilling experience it would be.

Not to mention a subscriber list that has grown from zero to 6,300, and Alexa and Technorati rankings placing Investment Postcards from Cape Town in the top 20 of global financial blogs.

A question I am often asked is what motivated me after 26 years’ in investment research and portfolio management to create an own blog.

I write primarily to organize my thoughts about financial markets - in a way electronically “filing” pertinent information - and

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The public perspective of inflation is mostly vis-à-vis consumer prices — what we're paying for food, gas, t-shirts and plumbing services. But even while these prices have been the poster child of inflation measures in recent years, there's more to it than meets the eye. When it comes to Europe, wage push inflation plays a crucial role. Higher Costs Here, Higher Prices There — Pretty Soon It's No Longer Real Money! Producer prices are simply the costs required to produce goods and services. Naturally, when producers' costs increase they'll demand higher prices for the goods they produce. In other words, they pass on their costs to their buyers. Regardless of what type of costs are rising and pushing up prices, those companies who pony up the extra dough to purchase these goods will ...