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Wendy’s Natural Cut Fries: Better Tasting, Yes. Natural, No

Would you be feeding your kids with this? by Melanie Warner Friday, April 15, 2011 provided by When Wendy’s (NYSE: […]

By Aidualc | 17 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought | Comments (0)

Invasion of the Pregnant Women from China

By RAY KWONG Random photo of pregnant invaders from China.   Does anyone else find it amusing that hordes of […]

By Aidualc | 16 Apr 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

How Facebook can Fail in China in 5 Easy Steps (if They Copy MySpace)

Apr. 13 2011 – 10:56 am  By ERIC JACKSON Image via CrunchBase   Many foreign companies have had disastrous forays […]

By Aidualc | 14 Apr 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

How small business can avoid becoming the next GoDaddy

Wed, Apr 6 2011 By Deborah L. Cohen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Social media is great for spreading the word but […]

By Oracle | 09 Apr 11 | Also posted in North America | Comments (0)

Hopeful Message About the World’s Poorest

By DAVID LEONHARDT, NY Times, In the not too distant past — 1980 — one of every six babies born […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Mar 11 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

The Golden Age Of Trading

Emily Lambert, Forbes, The number of retirees trading actively online is growing.   Maureen Christensen had put in 32 years […]

By M Guliyev | 28 Mar 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Expect China Inflation Weaker in 2H11, Says Matthews China Fund Mg

By KENNETH RAPOZA China’s 4.9% rolling 12-month inflation has scared many investors away this year, but the pressure of rising […]

By Aidualc | 24 Mar 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

China’s Tenacity Boosts Nuclear Power

By Jim Trippon, editor-in-chief of China Stock Digest. The shock waves from Japan’s catastrophic earthquake have gone global. But Asian […]

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

Five Things Gary Shilling Says You Should Be Worried About

By CHRIS BARTH   Yesterday, Gary Shilling, author of A. Gary Shilling’s Insight newsletter, sat down on Yahoo! Finance’s TechTicker […]

By Aidualc | 23 Mar 11 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Libyan War of 2011

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 Mar 11 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East | Comments (0)