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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.

For Doomsday Preppers, the End of the World Is Good for Business

Prepper websites, selling items like food and water supplies, have experienced a bump in sales as tensions have grown this […]

Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, wakes up each morning to a growing problem that will not go away. […]

Where would you invest in property if money was no object?

If money was no object, would you invest in more expensive rental homes across the UK, or would you keep […]

There’s a simple calculation to determine how much you need to have saved before you can retire

Retirement can be an endless summer. If Saturday beach trips and golf games have you dreaming about walking away from your 9-to-5 […]

Use These 5 Tricks to Get By in a Foreign Language

By Laura Lee Jones, International Living, Do you sit at your computer, dreaming of a new life abroad? Don’t be […]

How Entrepreneurs Can Use IRAs to Finance Startups

While lots of advisers don’t recommend it, ROBS rules allow retirement withdrawals to fund a business Tom and Stacy Lee […]

And the world’s laziest countries are …

Many Americans are downright lazy. And it’s making us fat. That’s among the findings of a study by Stanford University […]

Think you’re buying on Amazon? It’s actually from Alibaba

Peter Koch, a 37-year-old engineer living in Serbia, says he’s making $3,000 every month by selling the same seven baby […]

The most peaceful countries in the world

Haiti, Bolivia, Chile, and Latvia all have something in common: they’re more peaceful than the United States. The analysis comes […]

How worried should you be about artificial intelligence? (infographic)

By BBC Future, Intelligent machines come in myriad forms, so which ones pose a danger to us, and how likely […]