Oxstones Food for Thought – June 2017 – Winter is Coming

“Winter is Coming” – the motto for House of Stark in the Game of Thrones (HBO series).  The meaning behind […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jun 17 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

America’s 25 Thriving Industries

The United States added 5.7 million jobs to the economy over the past decade. Jobs were not added evenly across […]

By MarketAngel | 22 Feb 17 | Posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

27 charts that will change how you think about the American economy

By Timothy B. Lee, Vox, The US economy is changing — and not always in the ways people expect. Fewer […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Oct 16 | Posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, North America, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Big Picture

By John Mauldin, By Neil Howe, I’ve been a bit slow in bringing good friend Neil Howe’s predictions for 2016 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 19 Feb 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Emerging Markets 2016 Outlook

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton Blog, In many respects, 2015 was a challenging year for investors in emerging markets. However, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 10 Jan 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Real Estate, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Here’s the country other than Mexico that sends the most immigrants to each US state

Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently circulated a “Transforming World Atlas” that investigates some of the big demographic and economic […]

By Aidualc | 25 Aug 15 | Posted in Finding Oxstones | Comments (0)

Should we work forever?

At the World Bank, we have seen many colleagues who retired on a Friday only to come back as consultants […]

By Aidualc | 01 May 15 | Posted in Eastern Europe, North America, Retirement & Savings, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Echo Baby Boomers and the Stock Market

by Jim Fink, Investing Daily. In part 1 of my February 2012 series on demographic investing, I discussed Harry Dent’s […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Nov 12 | Posted in Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge

By DAVID LEONHARDT, NY Times, When the Wuqi International Hotel was completed this spring, it immediately dominated the modest skyline […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 04 Dec 10 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Private Equity, Real Estate, Stocks, The Big Picture | Comments (0)