Inside a Siberian Crypto Mining Complex

In Siberia, cheap hydropower, cold climate, and abandoned Soviet industrial infrastructure has made the region of Irkutsk an attractive spot […]

By Aidualc | 11 Nov 19 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Investment Wisdom, Private Equity, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The US-China trade war is creating winners out of Brazil, Australia, Mexico, and Canada

The US-China trade war continues to accelerate. America has put 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports, and […]

By Aidualc | 07 Oct 19 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

How Online Games Are Changing Education In China And The U.S.

Note: This column appears in the March-April issue of Forbes China, the Chinese-language edition of Forbes. Click here for the Chinese version. Robert […]

By Aidualc | 13 Aug 18 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, North America, Private Equity, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

New 2025 Global Growth Projections Predict China’s Further Slowdown and the Continued Rise of India

Cambridge, Massachusetts – The economic pole of global growth has moved over the past few years from China to neighboring […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jan 18 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph

That headline is a big promise. But here it is: The economic history of the world going back to Year […]

By Aidualc | 22 Jan 18 | Posted in Asia, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

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)

PING AN RAMPING UP OUTBOUND DEALS BY 500%, HAS $22.5B TO SPEND

BY MICHAEL COLE Ping An and China Life are each investing $167 million into Tishman Speyer’s Pier 4 project in […]

By MarketAngel | 19 Oct 16 | Posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China’s Neighbors to Millions of New Free-spending Tourists: “Ni Hao!”

by Ben Kirby of Thornburg Investment Management With more disposable income than ever before, Chinese tourists are venturing abroad in […]

By MarketAngel | 06 Jun 16 | Posted in Asia, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Welcome to Japan — Where homes are thrown away after one generation

Philip Brasor and his wife Masako Tsubuku spent years looking for a house to buy in Japan, and after a […]

By Aidualc | 23 May 16 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

How Demographics Rule the Global Economy

By Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal, The developed world’s workforce will start to decline next year, threatening future global growth […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 15 May 16 | Posted in Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)