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Forget 'What are your strengths and weaknesses?' If you want to get the real dope on prospective employees, ask job candidates these seven questions.

t could cost Comcast as much as $17 billion to fully buyout General Electric and become sole owner of NBC Universal in five years in a move that will squeeze excess cash flow, but provide leverage to make major changes in media business.

Even smart people make financial moves that are downright illogical. Emotions and superstitions have a sneaky way of keeping you from rational financial decisions. But dumb choices can have serious, real-world consequences. Here are some of the biggest blunders we all make, plus tips from the experts on how to keep cool.

We write this post from Shanghai as an unseen morning sun rises shrouded by dense smog.   We are here for the IFA's 77th annual conference in one of China's most modern cities.  Shanghai is a showcase of China's future, with spectacular scale, architecture and planning.  It is also a showcase for a new chapter in the Industrial Revolution, seemingly unbridled growth at an astonishing pace.

As an old "Asia Hand" we are able to benchmark this remarkable progress, but we also ask ourselves...at what price?

We have been here for three days and have yet to see the sun.

An There are significant developments underway in the “Greenhouse Gas” arena. None of which are good news for the fertilizer industry, or for that matter, those of us who have gotten into the habit of regularly eating three meals a day.

Even before the inauguration, We don’t personally know New Zealand lass Nadine Porter, but South Island Fertilizer Emperor and Ravensdown CEO Rodney Green apparently does. And the young lady is suggesting that the Emperor has no clothes, amongst other failings. High also on her list is the fact that Rodney’s farmer cooperative has gone into competition with its own members by importing livestock feed. In a post

The Emperor is on the left in white gum boots...

As we have watched the Fertilizer Wars unfold, our comments here, as well as on www.fertilizerwars.com have been from the perspective of a fertilizer peddler. What have been missing from this discourse are some observations from a shareholder’s perspective.

We are certainly equity punters, but as a rule we don’t invest in fertilizer stocks. It seems that we have developed far more efficient ways to lose money directly in this sector. That said we have still been curious as to what investors might be thinking while these fertilizer producers have been blasting away at each other. Unfortunately Google searches have netted little of value in the way of analysis, just press clips and protagonists’ propaganda.

Finally a gem popped up today in Forbes: Fertilizer Bids Keep Growing . What is interesting is the nuance expressed by Carl Gutierrez that there may be another unseen force in orbit with the three current protagonists…sort of a death star exerting invisible gravitational forces on at least Terra’s orbit. Is that you Lord Darth?

From our own perspective, it would seem that both Agrium and CF have been a bit stingy. Possibly the Calgary team has some doubts about the potential liquidity of some of their previous nitrogen production purchases. Surely there is a black market for the Egyptian Pound in Chicago. CF has cash of course, but spending it is another matter. Reaching for their check book may be on their play board for the fourth quarter, but it will be after the double reverse, and the Hail Mary pass.

In closing we should observe that we are not qualified to represent any of the shareholders who are caught up i