Countries with no property taxes where you REALLY own your home

Dateline: Belgrade, Serbia We frequently discuss the idea that governments thrive on taxing the “evil rich”. It’s no secret. Similarly, […]

By Aidualc | 22 Sep 16 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Why Shiite Expansion Will Be Short-Lived

Analysis Forecast That a bloc of Shiite states has coalesced in the Middle East is a significant geopolitical development; that […]

By Aidualc | 05 Jun 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

From Worst to First

By Chris Mayer, From Daily Reckoning I like to tell people that Greece’s stock market was one of the world’s […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 19 Feb 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?

By Richard Florida, The Atlantic, First Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly spontaneously combusted from the bottom […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Mar 11 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The world’s attention is focused on Libya, which is now in a state of civil war […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Mar 11 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Is the Gulf Running Out of Water?

By Adam Gonn, The Media Line, Falling water tables and a salinization of underground aquifers is leaving the Gulf in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 28 Nov 10 | Posted in Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)