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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.

How to read a 10-K like Warren Buffett

If you think you can be a great investor, you’d better enjoy working with one of the principal tools of […]

By Aidualc | 24 Jul 15 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

How to Judge a Business’s Durability

My last post listed examples of threats to a company’s durability. This post will be about how we assess those […]

By Aidualc | 22 Jul 15 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom | Comments (0)

Tunisia and the Arab Spring: Why the Results Are Different

Tunisia achieved the level of the success story based on the results of the recent political developments in the country. […]

By Vladimir Vepryev | 20 Jul 15 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Andreessen Horowitz: Why we’re not in the next tech bubble

by  Dan Primack Venture capital giant acknowledges some froth, but believes that today’s tech investing environment favors the private markets. […]

By Aidualc | | Comments (0)

Altegris Survey Finds Investors Are Bullish On Alternatives

Majority of Investors Plan to Increase Allocation to Alternative Investments in 2015 A significant majority of high net worth and […]

By MarketAngel | 14 Jul 15 | Also posted in Statistics, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Oxstones Food for Thought – July 2015 – How to Invest in America’s Economic Revival

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Global Investment Strategist, Oxstones Investment Club Warren Buffett wrote in his annual report – “Though we […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 13 Jul 15 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, North America, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Private Equity, Real Estate, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

With $21 Trillion, China’s Savers Are Set to Change the World

by Enda CurranJeff Kearns Few events will be as significant for the world in the next 15 years as China opening […]

By MarketAngel | | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Beyond the Greek Impasse

By George Friedman The Greek situation — having perhaps outlived the term “crisis,” now that it has taken so long to […]

By MarketAngel | 11 Jul 15 | Also posted in The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

America’s Most (and Least) Valuable States

A recent study estimates that the combined value of all land in the contiguous United States is worth nearly $23 […]

By Aidualc | 10 Jul 15 | Also posted in North America, Real Estate, Statistics, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

A researcher explains why Panamanians are the happiest people in the world

By Matthew DeBord, Business Insider, Gallup recently published its Gallup-Healthways State of Global Well-Being: “2014 Country Well-Being Rankings” report. For the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 09 Jul 15 | Also posted in Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)