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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.

Ukraine, Third-Highest Default Risk In The World, Squeezed By Russia, Makes Two Gas Deals To Save Its Hide

By Scott Belinksi, OilPrice.com, If one were to believe most Western media outlets, Ukraine has been lost to Russia. Though […]

Online Pawnshops for 1 Percent Turn Conspicuous Consumption Into Cash

By Anthony Effinger – Nov 11, 2013 Bloomberg Pursuits Magazine Last year, Marc Kaye suffered a cash shortage. He had tuition to pay […]

Doing Well by Doing Good

By Tara Thompson Popernik and Paul Robertson, Alliance Bernstein, Charitable giving remains one of the few ways that US taxpayers […]

Is Spain the Next Target for Chinese Real Estate Investors?

After having successfully driving up real estate values in Hong Kong and Singapore, Chinese investors may have some new investment […]

Americans need financial education, report says

By Herb Weisbaum, CNBC, Financial service companies spend billions of dollars a year marketing their products and services—credit cards, checking […]

Countries With The Most Immigrants

The United States has always been regarded as a nation of immigrants. Recently-published figures from the United Nations support this […]

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 […]

Irish Passports – One to Buy; One You May Be Entitled To

By Bob Bauman Ireland is the land of literary giants James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. It is the land of […]

Patience in Asia

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton Blog, Investing in a multitude of markets and companies as we do within the Templeton […]

Which Cities Americans Are Moving to – and Escaping From

For much of the nation’s history, Americans moved around mostly to find decent work. But these days, people may be […]