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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.

Keep Investing as Simple as Possible

By Morgan Housel, Motley Fool, Predicting the quality of a fine wine has long relied on the sniff-swish-and-spit taste method. […]

Index to Track Water Costs Governments Could Attract Capital; Investors Could Hedge

By KATY BURNE A watershed moment is coming to water: the ability to bet against it. Austin, Texas-based startup Waterfund […]

Russia’s Development of Siberia: What is to be Done?

By Clifford G. Gaddy, Brookings Institute, Russians are famous for their “eternal questions.” “Who is to blame?” and “What is […]

Want World Domination? Size Matters

Want World Domination? Size Matters By RICHARD N. ROSECRANCE CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HORACE GREELEY, Napoleon Bonaparte and Cecil Rhodes may […]

What does it take to be wealthy? $5 million

  Affluent investors say they need at least $5 million to feel wealthy, according to a UBS survey. NEW YORK […]

SAC Is Going Down but Does it Help Main Street?

  Yesterday U.S. Attorney General of the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, achieved what many think is his […]

Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part III

By: Eric Sprott, From Sprott Global site, Recent dramatic declines in gold prices and strong redemptions from physical ETFs (such […]

100 Years of Change [Infographic]

As a nation that’s ever changing, it’s sometimes easy to overlook some of the changes that happen within our nation […]

Man vs. Machine: The Great Stock Showdown

By MARK HULBERT It has always been difficult for investors to consistently beat index funds. It has been nearly impossible […]

To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?

By MALCOLM RITTER, Associated Press    NEW YORK (AP) — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last […]