We filmed at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market yesterday. I am not sure there is any greater example of a market than Tsukiji. When in Tokyo it is a must.

Short trip to Singapore finished. I am now in Tokyo for quick film shoot. Details to follow (along with more regular posts) soon.

I interviewed Jim Rogers today in Singapore for my film. Details to come, but it was amazing to see his 5 year-old blue-eyed daughter speak Mandarin Chinese.

Whenever the big bank takes an inept big risk and then loses big there always seems to be one guy to blame. My guess? More than just an assistant was involved.

What causes a traffic jam? The answer is you. The parallels between traffic jams and market bubbles and or trends struck me as yet another way to look at the role human behavior plays in day to day events.

From CNN/Money:

Consumers may be ticked off about the rise in oil prices. But the pain at the pump is a little less severe for those who’ve invested in surging energy stocks. Crude is over $130 a barrel. Gas prices are slouching towards $4 a gallon. Consumers are feeling pinched. But investors who were wise enough to realize earlier this year that the energy stock boom was far from over have more money (on paper at least) to afford those higher prices at the pump.

How do you get the general public to think about investing outside of common stocks when US mutual fund companies, along with a US government, tout no other legitimate options for investors? Sure, there might lip service to other investment opportunities, but most Americans are bread and butter mutual funds and that is it.

I can’t say I am the world traveler, but I have been to a few places. Singapore’s airport? Wow. Gorgeous inside and cleaner than most private homes. If all airports were like theirs everyone would travel a whole bunch more.

Just landed in Singapore. First time for me. What a haul. 20 hrs in the air over two flights. News about interview here coming soon.

A recent article published in Australia’s Compare Shares.

A headline after the market close today:

Stocks stumble on record oil, inflation worries.

Really? How did this AP writer know that it was THOSE two factors that made the Dow Jones Index drop around 200 points? Do you think he really had a way to connect the drop to the factual issue of high oil and the subjective feeling of “worries”? Or does anyone think that just possibly he made up the headline out of thin air? And that just possibly (like every other day) many people read the headline and said, “Sure, that makes sense, I guess it is time to do something?”

I will be in Singapore and Tokyo between May 21 and May 28 for two scheduled film shoots. However, if you live in either location and have a fantastic market success story or a horrible money losing story and you would like to possibly tell your story on camera for a theatrical release documentary, drop me a line. Are we only looking for superstar traders? No, far from it. We want to hear from everyone.

A nice piece on Salem Abraham by Gail Osten in SFO Magazine.