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Mengenai Idola saya, Richard Branson ato yang biasa dipanggil Sir Richard Branson !!

Dilahirkan pada 1950 di Blackhead, London, di sekolahnya Branson menonjol dalam atletik tapi menderita disleksia ringan dan kesulitan secara akademis. Sikap cuek terhadap masalah akademisnya berubah ketika ia mengalami cedera lutut yang menghancurkan peluangnya menjadi bintang olahraga. Branson beralih menghabiskan banyak waktu di perpustakaan dan memimpikan berbagai ide bisnis.

Walau skema pertamanya gagal, namun sambil berjuang dengan pelajarannya dia lantas menciptakan majalah “student“ pada tahun 1967. Dia menyelesaikan kuliahnya dan pergi ke London dimana majalahnya itu laris-manis. Branson kemudian menjadi wirausahawan karena harus menghasilkan cukup uang agar “student“ tetap terbit. Dari kantor pusatnya yang berupa kamar kos di London, Branson mendapat gagasan untuk menjual piringan hitam dengan harga diskon lewat pos dan dapat dipesan lewat “student“. Dia menyadari potensi pasar dan menamai usahanya “Virgin Mail Order” karena dirinya yang masih “perawan” dalam hal bisnis. Walaupun sempat dipenjara karena mengeksport piringan hitam tanpa membayar pajak, dakwaannya kemudian dicabut karena dia membuat kesepakatan dengan pihak bea-cukai Inggris. Kemudian Toko Virgin Record menyusul pada tahun 1971, diikuti studio rekaman Virgin dan Virgin Records diluncurkan pada 1973. Ream more »

March 30 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama may be winning over General Motors Corp. bondholders by calling for deeper cost reductions at the automaker.

A more aggressive survival plan would boost the value of equity and new bonds that noteholders would receive in an exchange aimed at cutting $27.5 billion in GM debt, advisers to the bondholder committee said today in a statement. Bondholder representatives met with Obama’s auto task force on March 5, and expressed concern that the restructuring plan didn’t go far enough to ensure GM would stay out of bankruptcy.

The Obama administration forced GM Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner to resign after concluding the Detroit-based automaker hadn’t done enough to prove it can survive amid the worst U.S. auto market in 27 years. Obama said today that company creditors, shareholders, workers, dealers and suppliers will be expected to make more sacrifices. The bondholder committee includes San Mateo, California-based Franklin Resources Inc. and Fidelity Investments of Boston.

“After the cram-down happens and bondholders go from $27.5 billion to $9 billion or whatever the number ends up being, their fate is tied to the future success of GM,” Pete Hastings, a fixed-income analyst at Morgan Keegan Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee, said in a telephone interview. “They’re going to need some assurance that is going to be worth something someday. The way to do that is to reduce their cost structure as much as possible.” Ream more »

March 29 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner will step down after more than eight years running the largest U.S. automaker, people familiar with the situation said.

The Obama administration asked Wagoner, 56, to leave the company and he agreed, said an administration official who declined to be identified before the move was announced. The likely replacement, unless the government hires from outside the company, would be Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson, said John Casesa, managing partner at New York-based consulting firm Casesa Shapiro Group.

“If they go to someone inside, Fritz is the obvious choice,” Casesa said. “He’s run every region, he’s been number two and he knows where all the bodies are buried.”

Wagoner had said March 19 that he didn’t plan to resign. His departure comes as President Barack Obama prepares an address tomorrow morning on his plans for the future of GM and Chrysler LLC. GM is surviving on $13.4 billion in U.S. loans and is asking for as much as $16.6 billion in additional aid to survive. Wagoner was asked to step down as part of the company’s restructuring, the official said. Ream more »

Once upon a time there was the United States, with other Western countries, fighting a Cold War against the communists. Back then the Soviet Union was the most important adversary and trillions of dollars were used to finance an arms race. For decades the entire world lived under the threat of a nuclear apocalypse.

The reason the US and its allies fought the Cold War was to prevent the further spread of communism and to defend freedom. Two decades ago communism fell in East-Europe, soon followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ended, but communism didn’t die. The US lost its appetite fighting communism, and slowly but surely the policies of the US changed. Now we know the policy of the Obama administration: there are good communists and bad communists…

Let’s start with the bad communists. According to the Obama administration you’ll find these mostly in North-Korea. The bad communists in this country have announced the launch of a satellite into orbit, but the US believes it’s actually a test of a long-range missile and it could reach Alaska, theoretically. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has warned the bad communists she will take action if they continue with the launch. Ream more »

Back in October – when gold was trading at only $770 an ounce – I told Money Morning readers that the “yellow metal” was looking like a very good bet

Since then, gold soared to more than $1,000 an ounce, creating quite a nice return for investors who acted on our prediction. Since achieving that peak, gold prices have declined a bit. In fact, just last week, gold prices dropped below the $900 mark, prompting gold bears to say that the great gold bull market has reversed itself.

Let me say right now: They’re wrong.

In fact, now I’m saying that – thanks to three key catalysts – we may well see gold at $1,500 an ounce this year, if not higher.

Those three catalysts – worldwide monetary policy, global supply-and-demand for gold, and gold’s past performance – have already ignited a powerful rally that’s virtually certain to carry gold to much higher price points, despite the breather the rally appears to be taking right now.

Don’t be fooled. Understand the forces at work here. Then watch as gold prices soar. Ream more »

Red Dragon Group Pte Ltd menyatakan usulan penawaran saham terbatas (rights issue) oleh PT Central Proteinaprima Tbk (CP Prima) akan mendilusi nilai jaminan surat utang perseroan.

Red Dragon menerbitkan obligasi tukar berjaminan (secured convertible bonds) sebesar US$200 juta, dengan kupon 2% dan jatuh tempo pada 2010.

Jaminan obligasi tukar itu adalah saham CP Prima yang dimiliki Red Dragon, PT Surya Hidup Satwa dan perusahaan terafiliasi lain. Jumlahnya mencapai 70% dari saham beredar CP Prima pada November 2008.

Pendiri PT Independent Research & Advisory Indonesia (IRAI) Lin Che Wei menjelaskan obligasi Red Dragon default karena nilai jaminannya turun di bawah rasio kecukupan jaminan (collateral coverage ratio), akibat anjloknya harga saham CP Prima di pasar. IRAI adalah penasihat keuangan pemegang obligasi Red Dragon. Ream more »

March 23 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration unveiled its plan to remove toxic assets from the books of the nation’s banks, betting that it can revive the U.S. financial system without resorting to outright nationalization.

The plan is aimed at financing as much as $1 trillion in purchases of illiquid real-estate assets, using $75 billion to $100 billion of the Treasury’s remaining bank-rescue funds. The Public-Private Investment Program will also rely on Federal Reserve financing and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. debt guarantees, the Treasury said in a statement in Washington.

Barely two months after President Barack Obama took office, he and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are staking much of the new administration’s economic credibility on the theory that removing the devalued loans and securities from banks’ balance sheets will help them start lending again and resuscitate the economy.

U.S. stocks rallied, capping the market’s steepest two-week gain since 1938, as investors bet the plan will rekindle growth. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index rose 7.1 percent to 822.92, its biggest increase since Oct. 28. Yields on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes rose 2 basis points to 2.65 percent. Ream more »

March 23 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks rose, driving a regional benchmark index to a six-week high, on optimism governments will succeed in efforts to revive lending, easing the worst slump since the Great Depression. U.S. futures gained.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. surged 6.1 percent in Tokyo, pacing gains among financial companies, before a U.S. Treasury announcement today of plans to rid banks of toxic assets. Uny Co., a Japanese department store operator, jumped 4.6 percent after Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said the economy may need 20 trillion yen ($207 billion) in new stimulus. Angang Steel Co. gained 2.5 percent in Shenzhen, southern China, as the government moved to encourage mergers in the industry.

“Stocks are building a base for the next bull market,” Mark Mobius, who helps oversee about $20 billion of emerging- market assets at Templeton Asset Management Ltd, said in Hong Kong today. The firm is finding “bargains” in every emerging market, he said. Ream more »

Yang Ringan Untuk WEEKEND

Alkisah, seorang petani menemukan sebuah mata air ajaib.
Mata air itu bisa mengeluarkan kepingan uang emas yang
tak terhingga banyaknya. Mata air itu bisa membuat si
petani menjadi kaya raya seberapapun yang diinginkannya, sebab kucuran uang
emas itu baru akan berhenti bila si petani mengucapkan kata “cukup”.

Seketika si petani terperangah melihat kepingan uang emas
berjatuhan di depan hidungnya. Diambilnya beberapa ember
untuk menampung uang kaget itu. Setelah semuanya penuh,
dibawanya ke gubug mungilnya untuk disimpan disana.
Kucuran uang terus mengalir sementara si petani mengisi
semua karungnya, seluruh tempayannya, bahkan mengisi penuh rumahnya. Masih
kurang! Dia menggali sebuah lubang besar untuk menimbun emasnya. Belum
cukup, dia membiarkan mata air itu terus mengalir hingga akhirnya petani
itu mati tertimbun bersama ketamakannya karena dia tak pernah
bisa berkata cukup. Ream more »

PT Bumi Resources Tbk (BUMI) sedang menggelar serangkaian pertemuan dengan forum investor di negara-negara barat guna membidik investor asing kembali masuk borong saham BUMI di pasar sekunder.

“BUMI telah menemui lebih dari 20 investment fund di London dalam acara Macquarie’s Asean Conference antara 16 hingga 17 Maret 2009,” ujar SVP Investor Relations BUMI, Dileep Srivastava.

Dileep mengatakan, strategi bisnis perseroan yang dipresentasikan dalam pertemuan tersebut mendapat minat besar dari para peserta konferensi. Dileep optimitis, irasionalitas pasar akan segera pulih dan kembali mendorong
investor-investor asing memborong saham BUMI.

“Kami sangat yakin irasionalitas pasar akan segera pulih dan investor akan kembali melihat pada kinerja fundamental BUMI yang kokoh,” ujar Dileep. Ream more »