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Bad Education

By Malcolm Harris, From nplusonemag.com site,   The Project On Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

China and the End of the Deng Dynasty

By Matthew Gertken and Jennifer Richmond, Stratfor, Beijing has become noticeably more anxious than usual in recent months, launching one […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 26 Apr 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – April 2011 – Real Estate Commentary

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, CEO, & Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management Recently, many prominent investors have sounded the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Apr 11 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, North America, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Real Estate | Comments (0)

U.S. Should Value Greed, Not Need

Margaret Thatcher famously quipped , “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But […]

By Aidualc | 23 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Commodities and the global economy after QE2 – Simon Hunt

By Simon Hunt, Simon Hunt says, 2012 will see a new round of money printing by the Fed resulting in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Innovation, Espionage, and Chinese Technology Policy

  Innovation, Espionage, and Chinese Technology Policy Prepared statement by Adam Segal Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and […]

By Aidualc | 22 Apr 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

U.S. spring nuclear plant outages near 1999 peak

HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. nuclear capacity shut for spring maintenance outages was the highest in more than a decade on […]

By Aidualc | 21 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought | Comments (0)

S&P Negative Watch for US Flagged Financial Sector as Major Risk

From NakedCapitalism website, Yes, I know I dissed the S&P report as fundamentally wrongheaded, but as we will discuss shortly, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in North America | Comments (0)

Powder to remove radiation developed

by Kyodo A chemist and a domestic company have jointly developed a powder that can capture and precipitate radioactive substances […]

By Aidualc | 19 Apr 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

BRICS Make Move to Shove Dollar Aside

by David Marsh, Market Watch, China and four other leading high-growth economies have taken landmark steps toward lowering the importance […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Latin America | Comments (0)