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I Lost My Savings in a Massive Chinese Investment Scam

Fanya Metal Exchange was once a celebrated success. The trading platform, founded in 2011 and based in Kunming in the […]

By Aidualc | 20 Feb 17 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Size of U.S. Economy vs Europe (Infographic Map)

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, Source:  Independent http://wp.me/p14UId-9qj  

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Feb 17 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

MAPS: America’s $200 billion obesity problem by state and age group

The United States is one of the most overweight nations in the world. The US Senate Committee on Finance estimates […]

By Aidualc | 16 Feb 17 | Also posted in North America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Here’s a Bullish Case for Gold Under Trump, Even If He Fails

Money velocity has been going down steadily for almost 20 years. After the great recession, it has dropped to a […]

By Aidualc | 14 Feb 17 | Also posted in Commodities | Comments (0)

Maps: Where Do Countries Import Most From?

From Global Macro Monitor, Source:  Fascinating Maps https://macromon.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/map-of-the-day-export-markets/

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Feb 17 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Pakistan Beats India, Again

After beating India in equity markets, Pakistan beat India in another metric recently: Geopolitics. The country’s leaders have skillfully leveraged […]

By MarketAngel | 08 Feb 17 | Also posted in Asia, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Game Time

By George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures, Last Friday, Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. For Trump, as […]

By Oxstones | 05 Feb 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

How Are Those Crowded Trades Doing?

By Macromon, We take a look here at what BofA/Merrill Lynch has surveyed as the “most crowded trades” in the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Jan 17 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Hedge Fund, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Almost All World’s Currencies Undervalued

By Macromon, We’ve put together a couple of tables showing the undervaluation of the world’s currencies based on their 2016 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Geopolitics of 2017 in 4 Maps

By George Friedman and Jacob L. Shapiro, From Geopolitical Futures, International relations and geopolitics are not synonymous… at least, not […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Jan 17 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)