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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.

Five Things Gary Shilling Says You Should Be Worried About

By CHRIS BARTH   Yesterday, Gary Shilling, author of A. Gary Shilling’s Insight newsletter, sat down on Yahoo! Finance’s TechTicker […]

By Aidualc | 23 Mar 11 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Libyan War of 2011

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 Mar 11 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Two Kids’ Social Networking Sites Reported to Feds for Privacy Problems

Jorgen Wouters   The owner of two social networking sites intended for children, FBFkids.com (formerly Facebook for Kids.com), has been […]

By Aidualc | 19 Mar 11 | Also posted in North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Will A Machine Replace You?

Will A Machine Replace You? Courtney Boyd Myers, 06.22.09, 06:00 PM EDT Your computer will steal your job, sell your […]

By Oracle | | Also posted in The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Wen Jiabao Addresses Global Imbalances And Vows To Eradicate Chinese Poverty By 2020

ByAgustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Blog, Chinese authorities have released a series of announcements indicating that they might be beginning to correct […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Mar 11 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Food For Thought – March Market Commentary – Who let Nuclear Godzilla into this house party?

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management, The first few months of 2011 started off incredibly […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Mar 11 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, North America, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Private Equity, Regions, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?

By Richard Florida, The Atlantic, First Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly spontaneously combusted from the bottom […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Time to Kill the $1 Bill? GAO Report Suggests Yes

The government just won’t give up trying to shove the $1 coin into the pocketbooks of recalcitrant Americans. Between 1979 […]

By Aidualc | 14 Mar 11 | Also posted in North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant

From Stratfor site, A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 13 Mar 11 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The world’s attention is focused on Libya, which is now in a state of civil war […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Mar 11 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, The Big Picture | Comments (0)