10 countries with the most gold

The world’s biggest gold bugs Gold just experienced its first annual price decline in 13 years, wrapping up its worst year […]

By Aidualc | 11 Mar 14 | Posted in Commodities, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

The 5 Greenest Countries On Earth (And All Of The Rest), Ranked

By Ben Schiller, CoExist, Want to live in a beautiful nation that protects your health? It turns out Switzerland is […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Feb 14 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Ten Countries Where People Live Longest

Life expectancy in the U.S. has risen in the past few decades. While in 1970 life expectancy at birth was […]

By Aidualc | 07 Jan 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, Retirement & Savings, Statistics | Comments (0)

Happiest and saddest countries 2013

The Prosperity Index Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, destruction, hopelessness. Syria is in civil […]

By MarketAngel | 10 Dec 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Global medical costs — how the US stacks up

Many Americans complain about health care prices, but is care in the US the most expensive? Here’s a look at […]

By Aidualc | 23 Oct 13 | Posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Myth of the Free-Market American Health Care System

What the rest of the world can teach conservatives — and all Americans — about socialism, health care, and the […]

By Aidualc | 17 Oct 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, Statistics | Comments (0)

World’s happiest nations are…

By Georgia McCafferty, CNN, Those looking for greater happiness and satisfaction in life should head to northern Europe, but steer […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 10 Sep 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

One of the World’s Best Offshore Havens

By Bob Bauman As other nations relax bank secrecy, the island nation of Singapore has embraced it. If you are […]

By Aidualc | 27 Aug 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

18 Housing Markets That Are More Overvalued Than The US

Societe Generale Albert Edwards pointed us to this chart comparing home prices across the developed world. For comparability purposes, the OECD […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Happiest Countries in the World

By Mike Sauter, From 24/7 Wall St Site, The residents of Switzerland are the most satisfied with their lives, according […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 05 Jun 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)