freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/16/2009
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The subject of piracy - real pirates, attacking ships on the high seas - has come up more than a few times on this blog, notably with the guest posts of economist/pirate scholar Peter Leeson. His book on the subject, The Invisible Hook, will be published next month.
In the meantime, those of ...
Live Piracy Report
icc-ccs.org 4/7/2009 — The IMB Live Piracy Report (replacing the Weekly Piracy Report) displays all Piracy and Armed Robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre in the last ten days. Click on the map for more details. Incident Details: Location Map ...
Live Piracy Maps
mjperry.blogspot.com 4/15/2009 — Live piracy maps (see samples above, click to enlarge) and live piracy reports are available from the ICC International Maritime Bureau , a specialised division of the International Chamber Of Commerce (ICC). HT: Catherine Rampell at NY ...
Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Piracy v. Private Equity: A Comparison
blogs.wsj.com 11/20/2008 — While every kind of legal deal making is down this year, one practice is up: Piracy. Pirate hijackings of oil tankers have surged 75% during 2008 , according to the International Maritime Bureau’s weekly piracy report . (Who knew?) And they’re making ...
Piracy in the filings…
footnoted.org 6/5/2009 — Back in April, the world was captivated by the Somali pirates who took over the Maersk Alabama and were holding its Captain, Richard Phillips, hostage. While we all know how the story ended — Phillips was rescued by Navy Seals, three of the ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Anarchy on Land Means Piracy at Sea
nytimes.com 4/13/2009 — Stockbridge, Mass. PIRACY is the maritime ripple effect of anarchy on land. Somalia is a failed state and has the longest coastline in mainland Africa, so piracy flourishes nearby. The 20th-century French historian Fernand Braudel called piracy a ...
Video: Piracy still dogs music industry
marketnewslive.blogspot.com 1/16/2009 — Legitimate digital music sales grew strongly in 2008 but were still dwarfed by the scale of illegal downloads according to new data from the trade body IFPI.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Somali piracy 'reduces tuna haul'
news.bbc.co.uk 1/27/2009 — Piracy off Somalia's coast is a cause of falls in tuna catches in the Indian Ocean - one of the world's richest sources of the fish, experts say. The head of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, Alejandro Anganuzzi, said catches fell by about 30% last ...
State of the State
adamsoptions.blogspot.com 2/11/2009 — OK, going to officially go on record as saying volatility is too high. Here's why I say that. Yes, financials look like a disaster again. But unlike last Fall, nothing else really does. Tech doing pretty well. Energy names look alright. And so on. ...
State of the Market - 12/30/08
chartswingtrader.com 12/31/2008 — Well, after a two very busy days, I have a few minutes to sit down and gather my thoughts a bit. First of all, my wife and I were blessed with a very healthy, very big (8 lbs, 9 oz; 22 inches) baby boy on Monday morning named Luke. Both mother ...