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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.

Fed’s Plan Sets Stage for Yields to Decline

by Tom Lauricella and Mark Gongloff, WSJ The Federal Reserve on Wednesday set the stage for falling yields on bonds […]

The World Looks at Obama After the U.S. Midterm Election

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The 2010 U.S. midterm elections were held, and the results were as expected: The Republicans took […]

Lessons From a Lost Decade

From John P. Hussman, Ph.D.,  Website.  – HussmanFunds. Over the past decade, stock market investors have experienced enormous volatility, including […]

Goldman: The Dollar Needs To Fall Much, Much Further

By Vincent Fernando, CFA, Business Insider Forget about hyperinflation, a falling dollar might not even cause moderate inflation in the […]

How Social Media will disrupt the traditional “Retailing” Model

By Harish Kotadia, MyVenturePad.com Groupon, the “localized” deal of the day website has witnessed phenomenal growth in the last one […]

Why Commercial Real Estate Isn’t Swamped with Foreclosures

By ABIGAIL FIELD, Daily Finance, The residential real estate market is drowning in foreclosures as the crisis there continues to […]

Keynesian Confusion

by Michael E. Lewitt, Harchcapital “At the present moment people are unusually expectant of a more fundamental diagnosis; more particularly […]

How Does China’s Manufacturing Keep Growing?

By Douglas A. McIntyre, 247wallst.com China’s manufacturing sector somehow keeps growing. The expansion even accelerated in October. The central government’s purchasing […]

What I Learned About Entrepreneurship Through 15 Angel Investments

by Neil Patel, quicksprout.com Over the last 2.5 years I made 15 angel investments with my own cash. Although I […]

Kass: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

By Doug Kass, the street.com, This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver on Nov. 1 at 8:55 a.m. EDT […]