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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.

Return and Ridicule

By Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, From http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/04/return-and-ridicule.html I am going down to Princeton today to talk to Ed Zschau’s […]

Bubble or No, This Virtual Currency Is a Lot of Coin in Any Realm

WHEN he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a […]

Modern Portfolio Theory vs. Behavioral Finance

Modern portfolio theory and behavioral finance represent differing schools of thought that attempt to explain investor behavior. Perhaps the easiest […]

Citigroup Looking More Like A Normal Big Bank These Days

With its first full quarter with new CEO Michael Corbat in charge now in the books, Citigroup (NYSE:C) continues to […]

The Investing Rule Every Math Geek Should Keep In Mind

The fancier the math one uses to justify an entrenched investment opinion, the more obscure and arcane the indicators employed, […]

Water Resource Issues, Policy and Politics in China

Editor’s note: Scott Moore is Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard […]

Israel’s Iron Dome, and the Ongoing Energy Revolution

By Byron King, Outstanding Investments Byron King The Middle East mess affects all manner of scenarios for future price and […]

Market sentiment in financial markets

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Market sentiment is the general prevailing attitude of investors as to anticipated price development in […]

Russia Is Next In Line To Restrict Cash Transactions

The Russians are taking a page from the Europeans book (and not a positive one for libertarians). Given the substantial […]

The United Kingdom Moves Away from the European Project

By Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor, British Prime Minister David Cameron will deliver a speech in London on Jan. 23, during which […]