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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.

Infographic: What is Stock Fraud?

Infographic: What is Stock Fraud?

Austin is piloting blockchain to improve homeless services

While the vagaries of the cryptocurrency markets are keeping crypto traders glued to their CoinDesk graphs, the real potential of […]

Jeff Bezos: This is what you are going to regret at 80

It’s not what you do and mess up, it’s what you don’t do that will plague you when you are […]

Legal tech is opening the system to those who need legal representation the most

 Jane (whose name changed for privacy purposes) had been living with her elderly mother for more than 20 years in […]

5 Things You Must Know Before Launching an Initial Coin Offering

By now you’ve probably heard of an ICO, or Initial Coin Offering, and know that it’s an innovative way for blockchain startups to […]

Rainforest Connection enlists machine learning to listen for loggers and jaguars in the Amazon

The vastness that makes the Amazon rainforest so diverse and fertile also makes it extremely difficult to protect. Rainforest Connection is a […]

MIT’s latest invention pulls clean drinking water out of thin air

For people in the world without easy access to drinkable water, the idea of being able to pull it straight […]

WTF are CDRs? (other than a potential trillion-dollar market)

Over the past few days, the Chinese government announced the potential creation of a new trillion-dollar investment market, and it isn’t […]

Benchmark just funded Chainalysis, the crypto intelligence company that helped crack the Mt. Gox case

When the virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox collapsed into bankruptcy in 2014 following the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of […]

How much you should have in your retirement fund at every age

Your Retirement Fund at Every Age If you’re counting on Social Security to fund your retirement, you might want to […]