Is the Pump Primed for Emerging Markets Investors?

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton, The vulnerabilities—or rather, perceived vulnerabilities—of emerging markets ­have been the focus of heightened discussions over […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 Oct 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Renminbi: Soon to Be a Reserve Currency?

By John Mauldin, Millennium Wave Advisors, The US Trade Deficit Turns Positive China Moves to Float Its Currency Transformational Technologies […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 30 Sep 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

World GDP Growth

The pace of global growth increased during the second quarter of 2013—only the third quarterly acceleration in three years. Buoyed […]

By M Guliyev | 28 Sep 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Regions, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

As China Slows, Watch for Public Housing to Accelerate

Since China gradually began pumping the brakes on an overheated housing market two years ago it has been waiting for […]

By MarketAngel | 25 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Q&A: Emerging Markets Powerhouses China and India

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton, Given their heft in the emerging markets world, China and India are among the countries […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 23 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Married to the mortgage

  Are high house prices hurting women more than men? Jul 13th 2013 | BEIJING  CHINA’s communists attacked many bourgeois institutions after […]

By MarketAngel | 20 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

Third World lessons for First World growth – Video

From LSE Website, YouTube Video link:  Turnaround: Third World lessons for First World growth Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

To Help the World’s Poor, Give Them Real Jobs

The latest U.S. jobs numbers showed a U.S. unemployment rate still at 7.6 percent. The official global unemployment rate, compiled […]

By M Guliyev | 12 Sep 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Regions, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Jeff Gundlach Singles Out The Emerging Market Country Most Vulnerable To A Crisis

By Sam Ro, Business Insider, Jeff Gundlach of DoubleLine Funds just wrapped up his latest public webcast. He reiterated his […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 11 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Majority of China’s Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants Located in Water-Stressed Regions

by Tianyi Luo, Betsy Otto and Andrew Maddocks,World Resources Institute, To maintain its economic growth and provide for its massive […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Sep 13 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)