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Currency Wars Retreat as Fighting Inflation Makes Emerging Markets Winners

By Garth Theunissen and Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg, As recently as last month, governments of emerging economies from South Africa […]

Banks Up Profit Bets on the Rich

By Lauren LaCapra, TheStreet.com, NEW YORK (TheStreet) — By the end of 2008, Bank of America had positioned itself as […]

Middle East in Crisis: a Worst-Case Scenario

From CNBC, David Murrin is not the most optimistic person I have ever met. In his recently published book “Breaking […]

Guns N’ Roses Bassist Says Welcome To The (Investment) Jungle

Guns N’ Roses Bassist Says Welcome To The (Investment) Jungle Mar. 4 2011 – 2:04 pm | 1,179 views | […]

The Most Dangerous Bubble of All

By Martin D. Weiss and Safe Money editor Mike Larson, If you agree that the tech bubble of the 1990s […]

Revolution and the Muslim World

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the […]

India: Kingdom of Dreams

From Mobius Blog, Throughout my travels, I have visited some countries that never cease to amaze me every time I […]

Is the Euro Washed Up?

By Charles W. Calomiris, Chazen Global Insights, Europe is living in denial. Even after the economic crisis exposed the eurozone’s […]

As Berkshire Improves, Buffett Sings Praises of U.S.

As Berkshire Improves, Buffett Sings Praises of U.S. By PETER LATTMAN Lucas Jackson/Reuters The billionaire Warren E. Buffett Warren E. […]

It’s The Corruption, Stupid

It’s The Corruption, Stupid Susan Richards 02.26.11, 11:50 AM ET While money is fleeing Egypt and the Middle East, the […]