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Food for Thought. Thoughtful debate and insightful observations/ commentary on actions/events in financial markets, investments, societies, and governments around the world that impact our lives. Also Oxstone Team’s Global Investment Commentary and Best Investment Ideas.

8 Things The World’s Most Successful People All Have In Common

What Do Successful People Have In Common? 8 Things. I’ve posted a lot about the strategies of very successful people: […]

America’s 10 most dangerous infrastructure problems

Pressing problems All things being equal, it would be better for the country to have less debt. Nobody seriously disputes […]

Booze Map of the World Crushes Our Spirits

Illustration credit: Richie King, Quartz; (click for larger image) America! We have some work to do. Not only are we not […]

Ukraine’s Increasing Polarization and the Western Challenge

By Eugene Chausovsky, Stratfor, Just days before the Ukrainian crisis broke out, I took an overnight train to Kiev from […]

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 […]

Seth Klarman 2013 Letter to Investors: The Truman Show

From the Baupost Group’s 2013 shareholder letter by Seth Klarman, Klarman has recently given back 4 billion to investors due […]

America’s new opportunity cities

When the going gets tough, Americans move around. That’s been the pattern, at least, for much of the nation’s history, […]

The Renminbi’s New Normal

By Teresa Kong, Matthews Asia, The gyrations in Chinese money markets in the last few weeks have caused much alarm […]

Ukraine and the ‘Little Cold War’

By George Friedman, The Next 100 Years, We must consider the future of Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet […]

Warren Buffett Gets Away With Paying His Employees Less By Using This One Weird Trick

By Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider, Yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder letter came out. Warren Buffett used the letter as a […]