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 [...]
Israel’s Iron Dome, and the Ongoing Energy Revolution
By Byron King, Outstanding Investments Byron King The Middle East mess affects all manner of scenarios for future price and [...]
Tiger Global Management buys Cobone website as Dubai Internet start-ups attract attention of global capital again
From http://www.arabianmoney.net/private-equity/2013/03/11/tiger-asset-management-buys-cobone-website-as-dubai-internet-start-ups-attract-attention-of-global-capital-again/ Tiger Global Management has aquired the successful Dubai-based global daily deal website Cobone for an undisclosed sum as [...]
A New Chapter for Turkey?
By Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors, Inc. From Daily Reckoning, In 2012, Turkey was the best performer among the emerging [...]
From Worst to First
By Chris Mayer, From Daily Reckoning I like to tell people that Greece’s stock market was one of the world’s [...]
TO: President Obama
FROM: Martin S. Indyk and Robert Kagan, Brookings Institute, http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/a-plastic-moment-to-mold-a-liberal-global-order As you enter your second term, the state of the [...]
Cocoa to Rice Woos Kuwait to Asia’s $2 Trillion: Islamic Finance
By Dahlia Kholaif, Bloomberg, Kuwait China Investment Co. (KCIC), part owned by the Persian Gulf nation’s sovereign-wealth fund, wants to [...]
What an Obama Victory Means for the Middle East
Memo to the Arab World: Good news and bad news with the re-election of Barack Obama to the White House. [...]
Vladimir Putin: The New Global Shah of Oil
By Marin Katusa, Casey’s Research Exxon Mobil is no longer the world’s number-one oil producer. As of yesterday, that title [...]
Where the world’s running out of water, in one map
By Brad Blumer, Washington Post Blog, Many of the world’s most important food-producing regions depend on freshwater from massive underground [...]
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