China Coal-Fired Economy Dying of Thirst as Mines Lack Water

From Bloomberg News, At first glance, Daliuta in northern China appears to have a river running through it. A closer […]

Want World Domination? Size Matters

Want World Domination? Size Matters By RICHARD N. ROSECRANCE CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HORACE GREELEY, Napoleon Bonaparte and Cecil Rhodes may […]

China’s Zhu Changhong Helps Steer Nation’s Currency Reserves

By LingLing Wei and Bob Davis, WSJ, BEIJING—At an official Chinese New Year’s party earlier this year, a former bond […]

Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part III

By: Eric Sprott, From Sprott Global site, Recent dramatic declines in gold prices and strong redemptions from physical ETFs (such […]

Russia breaks into top 5 world economies, displacing Germany

Russia has overtaken Germany as the fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the latest World […]

The #1 Thing Worrying Hedge Fund Managers Right Now

By Matthew Boesler, From SF Gate, BofA Merrill Lynch just released the results of its July Fund Manager Survey, which […]

Coming Up with the Cash, Condo and Cows for that China Wedding

There’s no word of this causing any mass incidents yet, but a map illustrating how China’s rising real estate prices […]

Dambisa Moyo’s take on Frontier Markets

I just read a great interview by Jonathan Barnes of the CFA Institute Magazine, in which he interviews economist Dambisa […]

Billionaire Ma’s Alibaba Gets Nod to Stir Up Loans: China Credit

By Lulu Yilun Chen, From Bloomberg, China has authorized billionaire Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group to expand funding for its online […]

Foreign Buyers Aren’t Playing A Key Role In The US Housing Recovery For 2 Reasons

By Mamta Badkar – Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:17 AM EDT Foreign buyers jumped into the U.S. housing market after the bubble […]