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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.

Watch ‘Dark Knight’ on Facebook … Netflix Doesn’t Like This

Now you can view a movie on Facebook, in addition to updating your status, wishing friends a happy birthday and […]

Secrecy conference: In countries like Romania and Cambodia, illegal leaks can be transparency’s only hope

By Michael Morisy While, in the United States, WikiLeaks has caused a furor for its journalism-by-data-dump, similar leaks abroad are […]

Never Fight a Land War in Asia

By George Friedman, Stratfor, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future […]

Currency Wars Retreat as Fighting Inflation Makes Emerging Markets Winners

By Garth Theunissen and Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg, As recently as last month, governments of emerging economies from South Africa […]

Banks Up Profit Bets on the Rich

By Lauren LaCapra, TheStreet.com, NEW YORK (TheStreet) — By the end of 2008, Bank of America had positioned itself as […]

Middle East in Crisis: a Worst-Case Scenario

From CNBC, David Murrin is not the most optimistic person I have ever met. In his recently published book “Breaking […]

Guns N’ Roses Bassist Says Welcome To The (Investment) Jungle

Guns N’ Roses Bassist Says Welcome To The (Investment) Jungle Mar. 4 2011 – 2:04 pm | 1,179 views | […]

The Most Dangerous Bubble of All

By Martin D. Weiss and Safe Money editor Mike Larson, If you agree that the tech bubble of the 1990s […]

Revolution and the Muslim World

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the […]

India: Kingdom of Dreams

From Mobius Blog, Throughout my travels, I have visited some countries that never cease to amaze me every time I […]