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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 Twitter Effect

The struggle to create the next perfectly weird company name What’s in a name? If it happens to be Twitter, […]

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Tells Entrepreneurs To Look Beyond Social… At The Launch Of His Social Web Fund

Social Web startups and companies are currently in their heyday, with Facebook game developer Zynga and others taking off. But […]

Three Big Dangers Facing China’s Economy

Three Big Dangers Facing China’s Economy Shaun Rein, 10.18.10, 12:32 PM ET  Last week I met with the president of […]

Rate Move Feeds the Currency Debate

From WSJ, by Mark Gongloff China’s interest-rate increase has less to do with the controversy over the value of its […]

Citizenship For Sale?

by Daniel Gross, Yahoo! Finance Every day investors around the world choose to put their hard-earned cash into the U.S. […]

Facebook Co-Founder Speaks Publicly: What I Learned From Watching “The Social Network”

By: Eduardo Saverin, Co-Founder of Facebook, CNBC Imagine sitting in a movie theater, and when the lights dim and credits […]

Investing in Frontier Emerging Markets

*Lima, Peru: The stock market went from 23 to 23,000 in 16 years. *Luanda, Anglola: Now one of the most […]

China’s Little Emperors Go Gucci

The super wealthy in China have been getting a lot of press lately over whether they will cough any of […]

Will the Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke Cause a Civil War?

What is the most likely cause today of civil unrest? Immigration. Gay Marriage. Abortion. The Results of Election Day. The […]

House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks

What will be the future of the private 401k? Should we go cash heavy, eliminating 401ks to be taxed today, […]