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My (very) early retirement at 33

Ed Hawkins decided a life of leisure would be wasted on his old age. So he opted to quit his [...]

Meet Britain’s wealthiest hedge fund chiefs: male, rich and Tory donors

A secretive Tory party donor who made a fortune betting on the collapse of the Greek economy has been named [...]

The Next Big Breakout Economies

By Sharon Kahn , From Chazen Global Insights, When most of us think of “breakout nations,” the BRIC juggernauts come [...]

Singapore Will Replace Switzerland as Wealth Capital

By: Robert Frank, From CNBC, Thanks in part to its generous tax regime, Singapore has been a millionaire haven for [...]

The United Kingdom Moves Away from the European Project

By Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor, British Prime Minister David Cameron will deliver a speech in London on Jan. 23, during which [...]

Should central banks now sell gold?

  Central banks in debt-strapped countries have a golden opportunity ahead of them, if you will excuse the pun, to [...]

Vanguard: Fundamentals Useless for Predicting Stock Returns

Fundamentals — corporate earnings, profit margins and gross domestic productFundamentals (GDP) growth — are supposed to be the ultimate guide [...]

Wood – The fuel of the future? Environmental lunacy in Europe

From the Economist, WHICH source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? (Europe has [...]

The Great Disconnect

By: Kemal Derviş, Brookings Institute, Since the second half of 2012, financial markets have recovered strongly worldwide. Indeed, in the [...]

Global Central Bank Gold Rush and Why Bundesbank Strikes First!

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Oxstones Investment Club, In an important surprise move reported a few weeks ago, Germany’s central [...]

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