Get a Free Copy of Weather Map Investing!

Send an email to weathermap@rutledgecapital.com with “Weather Map” in the subject line to receive a free PDF file of chapter 2 explaining Weather Map Investing from John’s Book, Lessons from a Road Warrior.  Read More →

New Article on TheStreet.com

A new article about how to find financing for your small business that I wrote with Dani Babb is now up on the TheStreet.com. It’s called How to Get Startup Funds in a Tight Market and answers a simple but important question from Mary in Arkansas: “How do I get money to start my business?” Check it out – it’s a valuable resource for anyone out there trying to turn their... [Read more]

Hannity Radio Financial Friday

On Friday we had a great time with Sean Hannity taking calls from his vast radio audience about their financial questions. You can listen to the audio recording be clicking here, Sean Hannity May 15, 2009 Financial Friday with Dani Babb and John Rutledge. We had all sorts of questions. Milan asked about his home equity line, Mike wanted to know if he should invest in index funds, Jessica asked if... [Read more]

New Book Review in India’s The Analyst

(May 16, 2009) Stand back, we are about to export my thermo-economics investment framework to India. There is a review of my book Lessons from a Road Warrior in the April issue of The Analyst, the finance journal of Icfai University Press in Hyderabad, India in which I have published several articles. The reviewer did a very careful job capturing both the substance and the flavor of the book and... [Read more]

New Interview Published in Beijing Review

An interview I did on my last trip to China during the Boao Forum for Asia is now published in the May 7 issue of the Beijing Review, China’s National English Weekly. Check it out—the article is titled “Growing Pains” and is about how emerging Asian economies are becoming a stabilizing force in our battle against the global economic crisis.  Read More →

Real Entrepreneurs

As you know, I am not a fan of sitting around waiting for the government to bail you out or a big business coming along to offer you a job. I think things work better when you ignite your own energy and scramble for ways to make money by starting a business. The week I spent in North Korea last week makes me even more committed to this idea. I think that people starting and running companies is what... [Read more]

North Korea Trip Notes

I have just returned from the most amazing trip–5 days in Pyongyang, North Korea. Over the next few days I will post a number of notes, photos and videos from the trip. Hope you enjoy. First, why did I make the trip? Because I love a good adventure. North Korea it is one of the hot spots that, if it were to change, could affect the prosperity of the entire region, including China, Japan, S.... [Read more]

I Love Blue Flame Entrepreneurs

We are starting a new show on Fox Business about entrepreneurs-Saturday 1-2PM EST. All live call-ins, emails and twitters. I will answer any question there about anything. I sent out a blog asking for stories from entrepreneurs. Here is a comment I got this morning from Marilee. Today the news is full of bailout stories. People like Marilee aren’t waiting for a bailout-they are doing it themselves... [Read more]

New Book: Lessons from a Road Warrior

Oh, forgot to mention in the last post. I wrote a new book too. Actually we wrote a book–I was assisted by my daughter Elizabeth, who edited the book (and got me to finish it.) She is the real warrior on this project. Now that it’s done, she gets to sleep for about a month. Daughters Katie and Jessica also worked on the project, as did Pamela (who works on every project.) It’s called... [Read more]

Tara’s Kids

I’ve just added a new section to the website dedicated to Tara’s Kids, a foundation I started while in China. The foundation tries to help bring education to those Chinese children who need it the most through providing the books and writing materials necessary for learning. In our first project, a donation of $5,000 created an entire library of 3,000 books for an orphanage of handicapped... [Read more]

Growth is the Answer

Thirty years of traveling the world have convinced me that growth is the answer. Economic growth is the only reliable engine for lifting people out of poverty and improving their lives. Access to capital, along with the people’s focused productive energies, are the principal drivers of growth. Capital comes in many forms; modern equipment, efficient factories, new technologies,... [Read more]

Thermo-Economics

In physics, when two objects are brought into contact heat flows from the hotter to the colder object until the temperatures are equal, after which point there is no further change. This is known as the First Law of Thermodynamics-the most inviolable law in science. Thermodynamics explains the weather, where temperature and pressure ... [Read more]