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December 2013

Americans need financial education, report says

By Herb Weisbaum, CNBC, Financial service companies spend billions of dollars a year marketing their products and services—credit cards, checking […]

Countries With The Most Immigrants

The United States has always been regarded as a nation of immigrants. Recently-published figures from the United Nations support this […]

From Hedge Fund to Family Office

By Russ Alan Prince, Forbes, Some hedge fund managers have transformed their hedge funds into family offices. This year Melissa […]

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 […]

Beijing’s Wangfujing Now Among Asia’s 10 Priciest Retail Locations

From http://www.mingtiandi.com China’s growing taste for shopping is pushing up retail rents in the world’s second-largest economy, and now a […]

Irish Passports – One to Buy; One You May Be Entitled To

By Bob Bauman Ireland is the land of literary giants James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. It is the land of […]

The Future of OPEC

Pump jacks in the Kurdish town of Derik, on the border with Turkey and Iraq, Nov. 25. (ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) […]

China Poised to Overtake the U.S. Yet Again. This Time as the New Wine Country.

The Chinese love their vinos – as well as imports from popular grape-growing areas like the U.S., France and Australia – […]

Patience in Asia

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton Blog, Investing in a multitude of markets and companies as we do within the Templeton […]

Which Cities Americans Are Moving to – and Escaping From

For much of the nation’s history, Americans moved around mostly to find decent work. But these days, people may be […]