We’ll close out the year with a look at a man fulfilling almostevery guy’s dream. Keith Wood is a transplanted Englishman in the heartof Munich, Germany, where beer is a passion. Earlier this year, Keithbought a bar in Munich’s Schwaben neighborhood, and now The Arc hasbecome one of Munich’s best whisky bars. Also…an update on […]
The British government is pouring more and more money into its banks creating real fears of ever-rising inflation. As banks scramble to pay off maturing bonds, the prices of commodities like oil, gold, and grains are skyrocketing.
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The scandal of subprime mortgages shares many similarities with the topic of steroids in baseball. Baseball has decided to assign blame to the guilty parties and now it may be time for the mortgage industry to do the same.
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In recent days and weeks, the markets for gold, oil, and money have experienced ups and downs. Inflation expectations are changing daily, and many investors are worried about their short-term investments.
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Jim McEwan and the guys at Bruichladdich don’t really care what therest of the whisky industry thinks of them. They do care greatly whatwhisky drinkers think, though…and the passion they share for greatwhisky leads them to try the unusual. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t…but there’s no denying the passion in each bottle. Jim […]
While chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan chose not to act in the face of the stock market bubble and took a similar approach to the housing markets.
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Single malt scotches and Japan’s single malts are a world apart ingeography, and some might say the same applies to taste as well. Thistime around, we’ll hear from the man behind Suntory’s award-winningYamazaki single malts, distillery manager Hiroyoshi "Mike" Miyamoto.Mike also has a history in Scotland, where he worked at MorrisonBowmore after Suntory purchased it […]