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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.

DogBuddy, the European dog sitting marketplace, scores €5M Series A

DogBuddy, a pan-European online marketplace for dog sitting, has closed €5 million in Series A funding, money it plans for […]

By Aidualc | 07 Dec 17 | Also posted in Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Private Equity, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Where human intelligence outperforms AI

by David Kline With every new trend comes a counter-trend. And so despite the current excitement over the wonders of […]

By Aidualc | 06 Dec 17 | Also posted in Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Trump brand’s shrinking power

The family brand President Donald Trump so cherishes is showing signs of distress nine months into a presidency scarred by […]

By Aidualc | 05 Dec 17 | Also posted in Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

‘China Hustle’ Warns Next Big Crisis Born in Reverse-Merger Mud

Jed Rothstein’s involvement in the project that would become “The China Hustle” began in May 2015 when the filmmaker was […]

By Aidualc | 04 Dec 17 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

3 ways to invest in a crowdfunded real-estate project

By CHARLES CLINTON When you think of crowdfunding, your first association may be a friend asking for donations on Kickstarter. While […]

By Aidualc | 01 Dec 17 | Also posted in Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Buying Guns Is Easy — and Cheap — on the Dark Web

By Paul Ausick While the buying and selling of illegal firearms on the Internet is not rampant, the trade does exist […]

By Aidualc | 27 Nov 17 | Also posted in Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

The geography of desperation in America

Authors: Carol Graham, Sergio Pinto, John Juneau II America today is as divided as it has ever been, in terms of incomes […]

By Aidualc | 24 Nov 17 | Also posted in North America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

50 Worst Product Flops of All Time

By Michael B. Sauter, Thomas C. Frohlich, Evan Comen and Samuel Stebbins Some product launches can be spectacular failures, and Google Glass, an eyeglasses shaped […]

By Aidualc | 23 Nov 17 | Also posted in Private Equity, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Most valuable substances by weight

While gold is undoubtedly one of the most traded substances on earth, it also happens to be one of the […]

By Aidualc | 15 Nov 17 | Also posted in Commodities, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

The Oil Market is Bigger Than All Metal Markets Combined

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist,   Ever since the invention of the internal combustion engine, oil has been one of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Nov 17 | Also posted in Commodities, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)