Oxstones Investment Club™The fancier the math one uses to justify an entrenched investment opinion, the more obscure and arcane the indicators employed, […]
Watching Our Golden Years Fade to Black
When I was still a young buck out in the workplace, financial magazines periodically published worksheets for calculating when you […]
Rick Rule’s Favorite New Thesis
By Chris Mayer, From Daily Reckoning, I was chatting with Rick Rule last Friday. Rick is now part of Sprott […]
Water Resource Issues, Policy and Politics in China
Editor’s note: Scott Moore is Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard […]
How to play resource scarcity
By Melissa Shin, From http://www.advisor.ca/investments/market-insights/how-to-play-resource-scarcity-113413 By 2050, it’s all over, says Jeremy Grantham: we’ll have either used up all cheap […]
BEF FUND – Successfully finished month – 10.38% return in three months!
Balkan Emerging Frontiers Fund made 0.59% net return in February and 3.14% net return in March. Net YTD return in […]
Enjoying a Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget in Nicaragua
By Jason Holland, International Living I’m kind of a thrifty guy. I don’t buy the latest smartphone that comes on […]
Dodging Soccer Balls and Sharks in Recife, Brazil
By Mark Mobius, From http://mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2013/04/03/dodging-soccer-balls-and-sharks-in-recife-brazil/ Recife, in Brazil’s northeast Pernambuco state, is known to many as the “Venice of Brazil” […]
Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share
By Joshua Davis, From Wired, On January 26, 2008, a 30-year-old part-time entrepreneur named Mike Merrill decided to sell himself […]
Lack of Chinese REITs Means Mainland Investors are Missing Out
One of the unintended results of changes in China’s real estate policies in the last few years, is that it […]