Bill Gates aims to save $233 billion by reinventing the toilet

Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of […]

By Aidualc | 06 Dec 18 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Private Equity, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The World’s 31 Mega-Cities

The share of the world’s population living in cities is steadily increasing. A majority of the world’s population has lived […]

By Aidualc | 25 Apr 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

China Plans 2020 Deadline for Dismantling Its Capital Controls

By Keith Zhai, Bloomberg, China’s leaders are poised to announce a 2020 deadline to dismantle currency controls that have kept the […]

By Aidualc | 19 Nov 15 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Building for the Future: Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

There has been a recent debate about whether the end of the commodities “supercycle” is over, and if we are […]

By MarketAngel | 15 Jul 15 | Posted in Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities

BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns […]

By Oracle | 15 Jun 13 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Private Equity, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China’s Market Ups and Downs

By Mark Mobius, mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2013/01/30/chinas-market-ups-and-downs/ China’s stock market was a roller coaster in 2012, and those investors with a weak stomach […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 05 Feb 13 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China’s Roads-to-Subways Construction Spurs Stocks Rally

By Jasmine Wang, Bloomberg, China approved plans to build 2,018 kilometers (1,254 miles) of roads, spurring the biggest stock- market […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 08 Sep 12 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Bear in a China Shop

By Arthur R. Kroeber, Brookings Institute, Time and again, China has defied the skeptics who claimed its unique mixed model—an […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Jun 12 | Posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

China’s ‘Demographic Tsunami’ Begins

China’s ‘Demographic Tsunami’ Begins   Residents warm themselves in the afternoon sun at the Luofu retirement home on the outskirts […]

By Aidualc | 10 Jan 12 | Posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)