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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.

What Housing Stocks Need If They Want to Keep Flying

By Christina Scolaro Yahoo Finance   Investors looking for signs of confidence in the real estate sector can try reading […]

By zoltanakb | 27 Mar 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Great Disconnect

By: Kemal Derviş, Brookings Institute, Since the second half of 2012, financial markets have recovered strongly worldwide. Indeed, in the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Mar 13 | Also posted in Asia, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Ray Dalio on the Upside of Negative Feedback

From http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/03/08/ray-dalio-on-the-upside-of-negative-feedback/ Our recent podcast “When Is a Negative a Positive?” is about the productive use of feedback. It argues […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 Mar 13 | Comments (0)

Mobile Money: A Technology Game Changer for Tackling Global Poverty? – VIDEO

By Laurence Chandy, Brookings Institute, Mobile money—the ability to store and transfer money using cell phones—is one of the most […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Brazil forecasts investment surge

Government officials speaking to Emerging Markets sound confident that Brazil can now achieve annual economic growth of about 3% to […]

By M Guliyev | 19 Mar 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Regions | Comments (0)

Doing Good: Bad for the Bottom Line?

By Betsy Wiesendanger, Chazen Global Insights, Being an ethical corporation costs money. It’s hard to dispute that the broad range […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Temporary Tattoos Could Make Electronic Telepathy Possible

Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, […]

By Aidualc | 18 Mar 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China to Free Yuan in 5 Years, Says Hong Kong Exchanges’ Li

By Matthew Leising and Fion Li, Bloomberg, China, the world’s second-largest economy, will open its markets and allow its currency […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Mar 13 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Canada Losing Debt Halo as Property Peaks Under Carney

Herbert Crockett called Cairo, Geneva and New Delhi home in his four decades as a human resources executive with the […]

By Aidualc | 15 Mar 13 | Also posted in North America, Real Estate, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Robot Will See You Now

IBM’s Watson—the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy—is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to […]

By Aidualc | 14 Mar 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)