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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.

Who’s the currency manipulator?

By Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene The US Federal Reserve’s decision to buy more and more bonds and other securities, […]

Richard Branson: People Power – the Engine of Any Business

The Virgin Group’s founder shares how he created a winning company culture. By Richard Branson Good people are crucial to […]

China Wants to Save Greece from Crisis

Can massive bond buying save Greece? I think at some point the country won’t be able to keep making its […]

Dilma Rousseff: Economist, former revolutionary and next president of Brazil?

Tapped to succeed popular mentor, civil servant would be country’s first female president SAO PAULO — Brazilians vote Sunday in national […]

China Needs to Boost Domestic Demand, Wen Says

By Jeff Bliss Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — China will address “structural problems” and stabilize its economy by increasing domestic demand, […]

Free: Country Profiles & Global Comparisons

Macro Investing has long been the dominant investing strategy in the emerging markets world.  But as the developed world face […]

Won’t be an Apple or Google in China for Next 50 or 100 Years

by Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations Over on Foreign Affairs, I have another piece on indigenous innovation and what […]

Steve Forbes Predicts US Dollar Will Link to Gold

By: Julie Crawshaw Forbes CEO Steve Forbes foresees a new link between the U.S. dollar and gold. “I’ll make a […]

Behind the China-Japan feud

It was ostensibly about a captured fishing-boat captain. But the conflict between the Asian economic giants went far beyond that […]

Counting from one to two in China—a bigger leap than it seems

by Elizabeth C. Economy – Council on Foreign Relations Something is afoot with China’s one-child policy, but no-one seems entirely […]