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The real reason my startup was successful: privilege.

I am a millionaire. The first in my family. A self-made success. It’s the story we love to tell ourselves […]

By Aidualc | 10 Feb 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, North America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Pakistan Beats India, Again

After beating India in equity markets, Pakistan beat India in another metric recently: Geopolitics. The country’s leaders have skillfully leveraged […]

By MarketAngel | 08 Feb 17 | Also posted in Asia, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

This three-mile-high skyscraper design is coated in self-cleaning material that eats smog

2017 only just arrived, but one manufacturing company is already looking 45 years into the future. Arconic, a materials science […]

By MarketAngel | 06 Feb 17 | Also posted in Commodities, Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

How Are Those Crowded Trades Doing?

By Macromon, We take a look here at what BofA/Merrill Lynch has surveyed as the “most crowded trades” in the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Jan 17 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

UBS BUBBLE INDEX SHOWS IMPACT OF CHINESE INVESTORS ON VANCOUVER, SYDNEY

As housing markets on the mainland have started to look more dicey, Chinese home buyers have flocked to global gateway […]

By MarketAngel | | Also posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Almost All World’s Currencies Undervalued

By Macromon, We’ve put together a couple of tables showing the undervaluation of the world’s currencies based on their 2016 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

What 1 Year as a Founder Taught Me That 19 Years of Angel Investing Never Did

This year has been one of learning. I mean this in both a global sense — there’s so much we’re still unpacking […]

By Aidualc | 27 Jan 17 | Also posted in Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Private Equity | Comments (0)

A startup that wants to transform insurance ‘beyond recognition’ has added $33 million to its war chest

Two months after launching out of stealth to take on the peer-to-peer insurance industry, New York-based Lemonade has raised $33 […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jan 17 | Also posted in North America, Private Equity, Retirement & Savings, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Looking to buy a home? Start with these websites and apps

Buying more house than you can afford is so 2006, right? Maybe not. While some mortgage products that proved problematic […]

By Aidualc | 25 Jan 17 | Also posted in Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

The Geopolitics of 2017 in 4 Maps

By George Friedman and Jacob L. Shapiro, From Geopolitical Futures, International relations and geopolitics are not synonymous… at least, not […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)