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December 2014

Giant diamonds lure investor cash to Botswana

  What’s worth $28 million and fits in your pocket?   By Patrick McGroarty GABORONE, Botswana—In a quiet room behind several […]

By MarketAngel | 22 Dec 14 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities | Comments (0)

BANK OF CHINA BUYS 30-STOREY NEW YORK TOWER FOR NEARLY $600M

  2014/12/09 BY MICHAEL COLE   A rendering of 7 Bryant Park. (Image courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners). China’s hunger […]

By Aidualc | | Posted in Asia, Real Estate | Comments (0)

China’s Corruption Crackdown Pummels Macau Casinos

The southern Chinese city of Macau is the global capital of casino gambling. Last year, revenue rose about 20 percent, […]

By Aidualc | 19 Dec 14 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Underwriting the Next Housing Crisis

  By PETER J. WALLISON   WASHINGTON — SEVEN years after the housing bubble burst, federal regulators backed away this month from the […]

By MarketAngel | | Posted in Food for Thought, North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)

You Could Live to 105—Can You Pay for It?

By Andrey Dashkov, Millers Money, Dennis often tells our team that he and his peers were counselled to plan for […]

By Aidualc | 18 Dec 14 | Posted in Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Flurry of China bank deals hints at renewed confidence

By Jennifer Hughes, FT, China’s banks and insurers have more actively sought overseas assets in 2014 than at any time […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Dec 14 | Posted in Asia, Latin America, Private Equity, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Retire Early, Save $60,000, and Travel the World

  By Yvonne Bauche, International Living, Three years ago, my husband Michael and I were both on the corporate treadmill—Michael […]

By Aidualc | | Posted in Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Private real estate assets reach all-time high of USD740bn

From HedgeWeek, By Preqin, Global assets under management* of the private real estate industry have reached USD742bn, an all-time high […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Posted in North America, Private Equity, Real Estate, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

12 Countries That Hate Their Government Most

By Alexander E.M. Hess and Thomas C. Frohlich Europeans went in May to the polls to vote for their representatives to the European […]

By Aidualc | 16 Dec 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Charts Show 28 Seriously Troubled Mega-Banks: 24 of Them in Europe

By Michael Shedlock, I have been saying for years that European banks are in far worse shape than U.S. banks. […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 15 Dec 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, North America, Real Estate, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)