It now seems that a lot of data is coming in from how Q4 2008 was. It seems as if the consumer confidence has hit a record low ( Bloomberg )...

It now seems as though the Swedish car manufacturer SAAB is finally heading into a restructuring phase - very similar to what in the US is c...

This is the finest piece of article that I have read so far about the financial melt-down, it is called "Wall Street lays another easte...

I found a couple of articles that highlights the financial distress in the UAE. It seems as if a lot of expats are seeing a really though ti...

I recently saw this great great program dealing with the financial crisis on US PBS. Its made by Frontline and is called "Inside the me...

Paul Krugman published this fascinating article in the NY Times . It is very very interesting and gives you a very sharp analysis of how the...

It seems as though this winter is the coldest winter in 20 years here in Norway.. I have therefore bought winter shoes as well as a new ...

This week has so far been very hectic and then im not counting the birthday. It has been a lot of school work and hand ins for a subject cal...

On my birthday, we now started the new class in corporate finance. We are now going through the theorem by Modigliani and Miller . I have of...

... and the economic gloom continues and stocks can always loose an additional 50 %. Cheers!

Apparently, the unemployment stats from the US are grim, in January alone they lost a total of 598 000 jobs in the US.. confirming the large...

I recently read a great service marketing article called " Marketing intangible products and product intangibles" by Theodore Levi...

We are currently reading a case on a former employer of mine, Starbucks. I used to work at Starbucks when I was 19 - which is now more or le...

Yesterday, Öystein Fjeldstad quoted this line: "Y ou don't have to have been a horse to be a good jockey" - Arrigo Sacchi Anot...

I have now used my Dell for a couple of hours and here is what i think about it. The computer is a Dell Inspiron 1525. Screen: 5/5 (great, g...

Well, I had a great time in Stockholm. Managed to pick up my Dell computer which is very fast.. Its quite big though, which is not good... b...

Im heading to Stockholm for a nice weekend. I cant wait, im leaving at 8.50 tomorrow morning - friday that is.. and going back to Oslo on su...

I have never been totally convinced that the market can actually take care of every single need that the inhabitants need in a sociatey - s...

It seems like the hard times are hitting some of the educational institutions in the US. In especially a University where I studied a coupl...

It has now been a couple of days ago since I posted anything on this blog and that has mainly to do with the fact that I have been very busy...

I am currently watching history unravel before my eyes at CNN.com/live - the US inauguration... it sends chills down your spine.

I have found Roger Lowensteins blog at Huffington Post .. Internet is truly a great source of inspiration. If you have not read Greenspans b...

I was on the chat with the Dell-people today. Since I am Swedish I want a computer that has the Swedish version of Windows Vista with a Swed...

I went to the movies and saw a great Norwegian movie, called Max Manus . It had a certain feeling to it that very few Scandi produced movies...

Since things havent really come up to the pace of the last semester, I have taken up "ordinary" reading again. I am reading two bo...

Apparently, the Swedish banking stocks are down approx 20 % during the first time of 2009. This is of course weird, I mean - the market mus...

The current war between Palestine and Israel is extremely unfortunate. It is also very unfortunate that the reporting from the war is so fil...

We are now picking up the pace from the slow start. I read a great article by Michael Lewis in the magazine Portfolio the other day (which ...

We are now getting information on the different electives; The electives that we can choose between are: Management control Multinational fi...

The past week has been a slow start on the new block of courses. The past week has been very slow with only some administrative tasks and tw...

I have written several times of the Swedish bank Swedbank and their investments in the Baltics - where they have come out as a major force i...

Saw that Microsoft has released a beta version of their new operating system called Windows 7 . It seems to be a new update for Windows Vist...

I am back in Norway and Jeff Skilling lost his appeal!! the former Enron boss has complained and wanted to pardoned since he apparently th...

I have now ended up in a new group. My former group with Erlend, Deepthi and Lars is now more or less dissolved - we have one hand-in in cor...

... my trip to Oslo has been postponed, Im going on tuesday instead...

I am now leaving for Oslo for Block #3 at BI. We are also getting our new groups and our corporate assignment from the Dean, which is going ...

During the holidays I saved the nice task of construcing an ethics case and then analyzing this case by the use of Goodpasters CAT-scan/mode...

The new year has finally started and it has already had some interesting issues for GM and Rick Wagoner . They get a fresh and cheap loan f...

Overall, 2008 was the year when a bull market suddenly turned into a bear and when the situation for thousands of MBA students changed in a ...

It has truly been a weird year and in the first of two summaries over 2008 I will write my comment on the presidential election in the US. W...

... after a very very tedious journey home with Swiss.. I am now back in Stockholm and that feels great. Couldnt stand yet another dumpling.

I have now surfed the web and read up on some issues regarding the news that Barack Obama enjoys an approval rating of approximately 82 % (R...

I logged on to DI.se - the Swedish business magazine (Norwegian DN.no is better) and read a tiresome article about 2008 where they had invit...

We have now arrived in Shanghai with the train D301. This was an express train with better facilities than the "Z" train. We also ...

The worlds largest auto manufacturer, Toyota , is apparently reporting a loss for the first time in 70 years. Well, this still does not mean...

Due to the terrible weather we are going back to Shanghai to stay at this hotel; Mercure Baolong . They have an indoor pool which Im definit...

Well... after being in Beijing for two days now I can honestly say that I prefer the city of Shanghai to the city of Beijing. However, I wen...

Well, we passed the final day of Hanukkah yesterday.. and in two days we are going to have Christmas here in Beijing. Weather.com says tha...

The weather today was absolutely horrible today - terrible and horrible. I think it was below 0 and powerful wind. We also encountered a mor...

We have now managed to reach Beijing with the Z.14 train from Shanghai to Beijing. To sum up: Cheap Fairly hard "beds" Fairly good...