The most peaceful countries in the world

Haiti, Bolivia, Chile, and Latvia all have something in common: they’re more peaceful than the United States. The analysis comes […]

By MarketAngel | 22 Sep 17 | Posted in Asia, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Collateral Damage

By Rebecca McReynolds, Chazen Global Insights, How legal systems block access to credit in emerging market countries It’s been well […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Feb 16 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Private Equity | 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)

Geopolitical Journey, Part 2: Borderlands

By George Friedman, Stratfor, A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 04 Jun 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Russia Examines Its Options for Responding to Ukraine

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Mar 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The 5 Greenest Countries On Earth (And All Of The Rest), Ranked

By Ben Schiller, CoExist, Want to live in a beautiful nation that protects your health? It turns out Switzerland is […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Feb 14 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

18 Housing Markets That Are More Overvalued Than The US

Societe Generale Albert Edwards pointed us to this chart comparing home prices across the developed world. For comparability purposes, the OECD […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Next Big Breakout Economies

By Sharon Kahn , From Chazen Global Insights, When most of us think of “breakout nations,” the BRIC juggernauts come […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 May 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, North America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Emerging markets outlook 2013: more bulls than bears

(By EM) The bullish outlook for emerging markets for 2013 is supported by a “return from the abyss” for the […]

By M Guliyev | 17 Dec 12 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Latin America, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Almost 2,300 clinical trials to be conducted in Central Europe in 2014

The Central European (CE) region has, in recent years, been extensively affected by changes in global trends pertaining to clinical […]

By pmr | 24 May 12 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)