Oxstones Investment Club™by Hui-Yong Yu Commercial-property brokerages, the stars among U.S. real estate stocks this year, are losing luster as the booming market […]
The Fed Is Looking at a Very Different Dollar Than Wall Street
By many popular measures, the dollar has traded sideways for the last six months. Then there’s the Federal Reserve’s measure. […]
State of Emerging Markets: All About Those [Central] Banks
This spring my travels have taken me to Europe, where I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with colleagues, clients and […]
Never a Better Time to Buy Land in Latin America
By Ronan McMahon, International Living, For more than 11 years I’ve traveled all over Latin America. From the U.S.-Mexican […]
Gold Price and Fed Interest Rate Hikes
Gold’s sharp early-year surge has fizzled in recent weeks as investment demand faded. The primary reason is the universal belief […]
2015: the Recovery Year for Energy and Commodities?
Last year was a dismal year for oil, the energy sector in general, commodities, and gold. Following through with the […]
The Smart Money Quietly Abandons The Housing Market
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014 AT 2:12AM In real estate, national averages paper over the gritty details on the ground and […]
The Housing Crisis That Refuses to Heal
By Doug French, President Obama crowed in his State of the Union speech about the economy, even mentioning “a […]
Romania on the Right Track
Sometimes, change and reform don’t happen as fast as we’d like in some countries, and Romania has been one of […]
America’s 10 most dangerous infrastructure problems
Pressing problems All things being equal, it would be better for the country to have less debt. Nobody seriously disputes […]