The Clear Signs of a Global Inflationary Tsunami Are Already Visible Around the World

Since the Financial Crisis erupted in 2007, the US Federal Reserve has engaged in dozens of interventions/ bailouts to try […]

By MarketAngel | 29 Apr 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Singapore Will Replace Switzerland as Wealth Capital

By: Robert Frank, From CNBC, Thanks in part to its generous tax regime, Singapore has been a millionaire haven for […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Posted in Asia, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Rick Rule’s Favorite New Thesis

By Chris Mayer, From Daily Reckoning, I was chatting with Rick Rule last Friday. Rick is now part of Sprott […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Apr 13 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones | Comments (0)

Water Resource Issues, Policy and Politics in China

Editor’s note: Scott Moore is Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard […]

By Aidualc | 23 Apr 13 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

How to play resource scarcity

By Melissa Shin, From http://www.advisor.ca/investments/market-insights/how-to-play-resource-scarcity-113413 By 2050, it’s all over, says Jeremy Grantham: we’ll have either used up all cheap […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, North America, Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Lack of Chinese REITs Means Mainland Investors are Missing Out

One of the unintended results of changes in China’s real estate policies in the last few years, is that it […]

By Aidualc | 19 Apr 13 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Chinese now the world’s biggest spending tourists

MADRID/FRANKFURT – Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world’s biggest-spending travelers after a decade of robust growth in the […]

By Aidualc | 06 Apr 13 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Strategic Importance of the Yangtze River – VIDEO

By Stratfor, Click on YouTube Video Link on Yangtze River Strategic Importance to Chinese economy

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

BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”

By Yun Sun, Brookings Institute, The destinations of new Chinese leader’s first foreign tour are always carefully chosen and reflect […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Apr 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Why China Is Finally Abandoning Its One Child Policy

One of the first announcements by the new administration taking charge in China this month was that the one child […]

By Aidualc | 01 Apr 13 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)