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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.

Zoellick seeks gold standard debate

By Alan Beattie, FT.com November 8, 2010 — Updated 0107 GMT (0907 HKT) Robert Zoellick says the system of floating […]

By Aidualc | 08 Nov 10 | Also posted in Commodities, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Credit Suisse: QE2 Just Made China’s Inflation Threat Much, Much Worse

From Business Insider, China’s caught in a real bind right now, and fresh quantitative easing from the U.S. isn’t helping. […]

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

Shoppers burned by recession haven’t healed

Economists see some frugal ways remaining even after downturn Mel Evans  /  AP Consumers were more willing to go to […]

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

China expands reach in East Europe

By Antoaneta Becker LONDON – When China’s ambassador to Bulgaria assumed his post in mid-September, he made headlines reminding the […]

By Aidualc | | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Private Equity, Real Estate, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Chinese Animator Seeks a Global Role

By JIMMY WANG Published: November 7, 2010 BEIJING — Ostensibly, there is no connection between the 2008 vampire movie “Twilight” […]

By Aidualc | | Also posted in Asia, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Facebook goes retail in a big way, FarmVille looks to prosper

According to a recent survey by Miniwatts Marketing Group 517,760,460 million people, or roughly 7% of the world’s population, have […]

By Aidualc | | Also posted in North America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

5 Tips on finding a job if you are over 50

Ann Brenoff Nov 7th 2010 at 5:00PM More than 2.2 million of the nation’s 14.9 million unemployed are 55 or […]

By Aidualc | | Also posted in Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Gold Never Has Been (and Never Will Be) in a Bubble

By Nathan Lewis, Binghamton, New York Most serious gold investors follow a basic principle: that gold is stable in value. […]

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

Fed’s Quantitative Easing to Starve Middle Class Americans

From the website of NIA – National Inflation Association, http://inflation.us The Federal Reserve today announced that they will be implementing […]

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

The End of Free-Trade Globalization

By William Greider, The Nation.com, The world economy is on the brink again, facing a crisis of epic dimensions for […]

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