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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.

$63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist, $63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization If you add up all the money […]

The Remarkable Early Years of Warren Buffett

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist, For most people, the “Oracle of Omaha” needs no introduction. With a self-made net worth […]

Naming Your Business: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

If you’re launching a new venture, there’s already enough pressure. The reality is that most businesses end as failures, and […]

Visualizing a Rapidly Changing Global Diet

By 2050, there will be two billion more mouths to feed than today. The increase in food supply required to […]

The Stock Motifs that are Up Over 20%

If you are not familiar with motifs, they are similar to Exchange Traded Funds, except they are created by investors. […]

Why This May Be the Perfect Time to Chase Warren Buffett’s Largest Stock Picks

Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) was an $18.0 billion stake, and like Amex the size of this share count has been […]

Most Valuable U.S. Companies Over 100 Years

How much does the business world shift in a century? Today’s visualization comes from HowMuch.net, and it uses Forbes data […]

How to Invest in Bitcoin Using Stocks

Over the past few months there has been an increased wave of euphoria surrounding cryptocurrencies, the most notable of which […]

What people think of every country in the world, according to Google

No matter how open-minded you consider yourself to be, you will have some sort of preconception when it comes to other […]

When billionaires were kids: Here’s what Buffett, Gates and others wanted to be when they grew up

Steve Jobs wasn’t born on a stage in a black turtleneck and jeans presenting the next innovation from Apple. Warren Buffett didn’t always […]