Oxstones Investment Club™More than half of Africa’s total wealth is controlled by only three nations according to this year’s Africa Wealth Report (pdf) published […]
Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt?
A new study has energized a century-long debate at the heart of China’s national identity. On a cool Sunday evening […]
Lonely Planet’s favourite final frontiers
By Joe Bindloss, Lonely Planet, Fifty years ago, the Starship Enterprise set out ‘to explore strange new worlds, to seek […]
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 […]
The cheapest countries to live in 2016
THRIFTY LIVING Want to know where you can get cheap groceries, eat out for less and rent […]
The European countries that take in the most refugees, in one interactive map
Europe is in the middle of a refugee crisis. Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of people have migrated […]
Culture Clash: How ISIS Could Send Europe Over the Edge
By Riyadh Mohammed The dramatic and tragic images of refugees pouring into Europe from the Middle East represent more than […]
Lost cities: where to pretend you are Indiana Jones
By Sarah Gilbert, Lonely Planet. Unearthing lost cities used to be the preserve of machete-wielding, Indiana Jones types, but advances […]
11 Countries Near Bankruptcy
By Alexander E.M. Hess and Alexander Kent July 31, 2014 6:33 pm EDT After years of bitter court battles with creditors, Argentina has […]
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The Prosperity Index Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, destruction, hopelessness. Syria is in civil […]