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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.

The age of the dollar is drawing to a close

By Jeremy Warner, Telegraph.co.uk, Currency competition is the only way to fix the world economy, says Jeremy Warner. Right from […]

How to Profit From the Fed’s New Moves

From WSJ, Ben Bernanke hopes his new $600 billion bonanza will help unemployed machinists in Toledo and building contractors in […]

Sarah Palin Food Inflation Controversy

From NIA website Sarah Palin on Monday made a speech at a trade-association convention in Phoenix urging Federal Reserve Chairman […]

Size Matters

From the Research Puzzle website, When asked about the differences in investing between individual investors and those that manage other […]

Emerging markets brace for money flood

By David Pilling, FT.com Emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, China and India expect an investment flood. STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Quantitative […]

The New Reality: Emerging vs. Developed Markets

Sara Zervos Vice President and Portfolio Manager The financial turmoil of the last three years has exposed structural weaknesses in […]

Don’t Look Now, But Here Come the New, New Bank Fees

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Less than a year after the passage of new laws limiting banks’ ability to impose certain fees […]

Telecoms market in CIS countries 2010

Despite sharing a common past CIS countries are very different as regards their: size, number and density of their populations, […]

China hopes G20 to focus on global recovery

By Kevin Yao LISBON (Reuters) – China hopes this week’s G20 summit in Seoul will help promote recovery in the […]

Asia: heads in the clouds

November 8, 2010 11:10am by Josh Noble Competitive building is nothing new. For centuries rival countries have sought to show-off […]