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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.

Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba.com on The Power of American Ideas

Founder of China’s Largest Web Company Speaks to ABC’s Diane Sawyer In a country that still restricts the flow of […]

China’s African safari strictly business

By Kent Ewing HONG KONG – Read China’s state media and you will learn that, thanks to projects financed by […]

INDIA: Why More Infrastructure Isn’t Enough

By Jyoti Thottam / Mundra The revolution here began with a handful of salt. In the 1990s, during the early […]

Weaker Dollar Seen as Unlikely to Cure Joblessness

Shipping containers at the Port of Houston in Texas. A weak dollar can help business but may not mean more […]

Baidu’s Robin Li On Google, Facebook

By WENDY TANAKA Robin Li has never spoken before a tech industry group in the U.S.– until today.  The founder […]

When the G20 stopped feeling like the G8-plus

By Stephanie Flanders |  14.11.2010 Western officials should have realised this summit would be different when they arrived in Seoul […]

Comics for Economics

November 15, 2010, 6:00 am By NANCY FOLBRE Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. […]

China may be bigger economy than US within two years

By Jeremy Warner, Telegraph.co.uk, Here’s a finding that will have any red-blooded American spluttering into his cornflakes. According to the […]

How Baidu Won China

Robin Li beat Google and made his search engine No. 1 in China. Now he wants to go global, but […]

China bashes US credit… USA no longer US-AA Rated

Chinese Credit Rater Downgrades U.S. – MarketBeat By Matt Phillips Getty Images Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., the Chinese rating […]