10 countries with the most gold

The world’s biggest gold bugs Gold just experienced its first annual price decline in 13 years, wrapping up its worst year […]

By Aidualc | 11 Mar 14 | Posted in Commodities, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

Ukraine and the ‘Little Cold War’

By George Friedman, The Next 100 Years, We must consider the future of Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 Mar 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

How retirement systems vary, country to country

  How retirement systems vary among major nations, from the US to China to Germany   By The Associated PressDecember 30, […]

By Aidualc | 11 Feb 14 | Posted in Retirement & Savings, Statistics | Comments (0)

Countries With The Most Immigrants

The United States has always been regarded as a nation of immigrants. Recently-published figures from the United Nations support this […]

By MarketAngel | 11 Dec 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, Statistics | Comments (0)

Global medical costs — how the US stacks up

Many Americans complain about health care prices, but is care in the US the most expensive? Here’s a look at […]

By Aidualc | 23 Oct 13 | Posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Europe’s zombie banks: Blight of the living dead

“PROBABLY the most successful monetary-policy measure undertaken in recent times.” That is Mario Draghi’s self-effacing judgment on the outright monetary […]

By Aidualc | 22 Aug 13 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, 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)

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 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

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 […]

By DennisGao | 12 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Croatia Trades Bombs for Cafe Culture as EU Entry Nears

By Jasmina Kuzmanovic – May 14, 2013 Under shellfire on Christmas Eve 1991, 13-year-old Maja Biloglav fled Zadar by boat […]

By Aidualc | 21 Jun 13 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)