The World’s 31 Mega-Cities

The share of the world’s population living in cities is steadily increasing. A majority of the world’s population has lived […]

By Aidualc | 25 Apr 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

How China’s city migration could help rebalance the economy

Editor’s Note:This interview was originally published by Bloomberg. China said this month it’ll encourage another 100 million of its rural […]

By MarketAngel | 27 Feb 17 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

GOOGLE AND NASA TEAM UP TO BRING YOU 30 YEARS OF CHINESE DEVELOPMENT IN 30 SECONDS

BY MICHAEL COLE China’s development over the past 30 years has been one of the world’s biggest success stories, but […]

By MarketAngel | 24 Feb 17 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

London is 2015’s Top Tourist Destination

London leads the MasterCard report in most international tourists, and most money spent by international tourists. (Photo: Thinkstock) Travel data […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jun 15 | Posted in Statistics, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

SHANGHAI FTZ TO ALLOW CHINESE INDIVIDUALS TO INVEST OVERSEAS

  BY MICHAEL COLE   Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone may soon be welcoming individual investors In a policy breakthrough, Shanghai’s party […]

By Aidualc | 02 Dec 14 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

CHINA’S TOP 20 CITIES FOR MILLIONAIRES REVEALE

  BY MICHAEL COLE    Shanghai may be China’s commercial capital, but Beijing has 33,000 more millionaires, according to the latest […]

By MarketAngel | 13 Nov 14 | Posted in Asia, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

New York Drops to World’s 9th Largest City

By Douglas A. McIntyre  New York’s population barely puts it into the top 10 worldwide, and cities such as Dehli and […]

By Aidualc | 30 Sep 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, Statistics | Comments (0)

Cities in Crisis Due to Pollution

Today human population is in migration from towns and villages to cities. The city populations are increasing tremendously in the […]

By Aidualc | 15 Sep 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Housing Misery Maps Going Viral on China’s Weibo

By Michael Cole, Mingtiandi, Map of China housing “agony” shows years of work necessary to save up a down-payment   […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 May 14 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Here’s how much square-footage $1 million will buy you in the world’s most expensive real estate markets

Read the entire Wealth Report here. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/global-economy/140506/1-million-most-expensive-real-estate-property-markets-square-feet

By Liu-Yue Lam | 19 May 14 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, North America, Real Estate, Statistics, Western Europe | Comments (0)