Oxstones Investment Club™With surging populations, the world is coping with the increased demand for water. A rapidly urbanizing population further strains the […]
Post-Sept. 11 Wars Have Cost $4.79 Trillion
On Sept. 14, 2001, President George W. Bush visited the still-smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed first […]
Culture Clash: How ISIS Could Send Europe Over the Edge
By Riyadh Mohammed The dramatic and tragic images of refugees pouring into Europe from the Middle East represent more than […]
Happiest and saddest countries 2013
The Prosperity Index Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, destruction, hopelessness. Syria is in civil […]
Smallest Stock Exchanges Can Only Go Up
by Thomas Kostigen, Market Watch, The world’s smallest stock exchange opened last week in Cambodia and joins a growing cadre […]
The Libyan War of 2011
By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United […]
Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?
By Richard Florida, The Atlantic, First Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly spontaneously combusted from the bottom […]
Revolution and the Muslim World
By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the […]
Unrest and the Libyan Military
By Stratfor, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ordered the Libyan air force to fire on military installations in Libya, according […]
Libya Next?
by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge.com, The one country landlocked between Tunisia and Egypt has so far been oddly silent. Not […]