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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.

Gold fluctuates after tapping record atop $1,900

Metal wavers between small gains and losses By Claudia Assis and Myra P. Saefong, Market Watch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — […]

By M Guliyev | 06 Sep 11 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

World Bank expects slow US growth but no recession

By Alex Kennedy AP, World Bank’s Zoellick expects slow US growth, high unemployment but no recession SINGAPORE (AP) — The […]

By M Guliyev | | Also posted in North America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Are Political Suicides Needed to Save Greater Europe?

by Roya Wolverson, curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com, Greek tragedy strikes again. European and Greek leaders are at each other’s throats about Greece being […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Will Asia “buy up” America?

by Michael Schuman, curiouscapitalist site, Those of us old enough to remember the 1980s – and I unfortunately include myself […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Sep 11 | Also posted in Asia, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Jim Rogers – ‘U.S. Needs To Cut Spending With A Chainsaw!’

From dailybail.com site, Interview transcript: Jim Rogers: I hope it’s only one decade of loss that we lose in America. Japan […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Sep 11 | Also posted in Asia, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Der Spiegel Interview with George Soros

By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Thomas Schulz, ‘You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds’ In a SPIEGEL interview, billionaire investor […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Aug 11 | Also posted in Asia, Investment Wisdom, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Quant Result

By Kai Petainen, Forbes, Have you wondered how one can pick stocks via a quant screen?  Would you like to […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 30 Aug 11 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, North America, Statistics, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Private healthcare market in Central Europe 2011 Development forecasts for 2011-2013

The development of the private healthcare sector has been curtailed in all of the six countries analysed in the report. […]

By pmr | 29 Aug 11 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Did the Fed Buy the Market to Stop the Collapse?

By Phoenix Capital Research, Zero Hedge,   Now that the market has rolled over and erased most of the gains […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Aug 11 | Also posted in North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Big Mac Index and Currency ETFs

By Tom Aspray, Forbes, The “Big Mac Index” suggests a new long-term trend for the Chinese yuan while the US […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Aug 11 | Also posted in Asia, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)