Contemplation Station

It was interesting when I went in to talk to S. Nof, the first man to hand me a paper back with a score two standard deviations below the class mean plastered on the front of it. For those of you who aren't statisticians, that's legitimately failing. At Purdue, especially in engineering, you have to evaluate the meaning of the numbers you get back on your papers because 90% does not necessitate the borderline between A/B. So, I went in to talk to Nof. I realized that it was worthless to say anything that would make him think less of me, so I decided that I was going to go in and make him feel like he helped me out when I was leaving. I succeeded. Anyway, at an earlier stage in my life, I would have probably gotten more upset about it and thrown out crude and embarrassing remarks as a defensive gesture. That aside. It's time to proliferate my economic forecast.

EEB, FXI, IRL, EWY, CH, VTOPF, IFN

EEB - BRIC Fund weighted in Brazil FXI - China Fund, to offset underweight of EEB in China EEM - Emerging Markets Fund IRL - Ireland Fund EWY - South Korea Fund CH - Chile Closed End Fund VTOPF - Vietnam Opportunities Fund IFN - India Closed End Fund

Granted, I do not like closed ended funds, but when there isn't an alternative... you take what you can get with a smile, because it's still beating the pants off of your other options

look into dxtlx if you have 25000, but.. that's serious long term holds only.

Get your money out of the US as quickly as you can. Our train is pulling into depreciation station.