The Oil Market is Bigger Than All Metal Markets Combined

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist,   Ever since the invention of the internal combustion engine, oil has been one of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Nov 17 | Posted in Commodities, Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Geopolitics of Nuclear Weapons

By George Friedman, Xander Snyder, and Cheyenne Ligon, Geopolitical Futures President Trump has reversed his stance on a number of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 20 Apr 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

What Past Empires Tell Us About the Future

By George Friedman and Jacob L. Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures, Spanish essayist George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Apr 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Pakistan Beats India, Again

After beating India in equity markets, Pakistan beat India in another metric recently: Geopolitics. The country’s leaders have skillfully leveraged […]

By MarketAngel | 08 Feb 17 | Posted in Asia, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Geopolitics of 2017 in 4 Maps

By George Friedman and Jacob L. Shapiro, From Geopolitical Futures, International relations and geopolitics are not synonymous… at least, not […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Jan 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Big Picture

By John Mauldin, By Neil Howe, I’ve been a bit slow in bringing good friend Neil Howe’s predictions for 2016 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 19 Feb 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

New ‘Silk Road’ could alter global economics

From Robert Berke, Oilprice.com, Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Jun 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Private Equity, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The ‘Grexit’ Issue and the Problem of Free Trade

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Greek crisis is moving toward a climax. The issue is actually quite simple. The Greek […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Apr 15 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Russia Nervously Eyes the U.S.-Iran Deal

By Reva Bhalla, Stratfor, When a group of weary diplomats announced a framework for an Iranian nuclear accord last week […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Apr 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Russia and China Rapprochement Akin to Porcupines Mating

By: Casey_Research That was how the slow and careful rapprochement between Russia and China has been described by Eric Margolis, one […]

By Aidualc | 09 Jan 15 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)