Eurozone on Edge of a knife! – Countdown to Crisis? Yes or No?

By: Ty_Andros Europe is caught in the cross hairs of the exports of deflation from Japan and China. Delighted by the support […]

By MarketAngel | 21 Aug 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

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)

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)

Ten Countries Where People Live Longest

Life expectancy in the U.S. has risen in the past few decades. While in 1970 life expectancy at birth was […]

By Aidualc | 07 Jan 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, Retirement & Savings, Statistics | Comments (0)

Serbia leader calls Gazprom pipeline vital

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Gazprom’s South Stream pipeline, which will bypass Ukraine to transport Russian natural gas to Europe, is […]

By Aidualc | 27 Dec 13 | Posted in Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | 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)

Should central banks now sell gold?

  Central banks in debt-strapped countries have a golden opportunity ahead of them, if you will excuse the pun, to […]

By zoltanakb | 13 Apr 13 | Posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | 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)