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March 2013

Brazil forecasts investment surge

Government officials speaking to Emerging Markets sound confident that Brazil can now achieve annual economic growth of about 3% to […]

30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Will Change The Lives Of Every Person On The Planet

The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are […]

Doing Good: Bad for the Bottom Line?

By Betsy Wiesendanger, Chazen Global Insights, Being an ethical corporation costs money. It’s hard to dispute that the broad range […]

Temporary Tattoos Could Make Electronic Telepathy Possible

Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, […]

7 Investment Principles for Entrepreneurs

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart, avondalestrategicpartners.com Those of us who have large investments in private businesses aren’t like typical […]

China to Free Yuan in 5 Years, Says Hong Kong Exchanges’ Li

By Matthew Leising and Fion Li, Bloomberg, China, the world’s second-largest economy, will open its markets and allow its currency […]

Brazil’s Richest Family Forging $13 Billion Niobium Dream

By Cristiane Lucchesi and Alex Cuadros, Bloomberg, In 1965, U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur W. Radford persuaded Walther Moreira Salles, a […]

Canada Losing Debt Halo as Property Peaks Under Carney

Herbert Crockett called Cairo, Geneva and New Delhi home in his four decades as a human resources executive with the […]

The Robot Will See You Now

IBM’s Watson—the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy—is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to […]

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 […]