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NYSE MARGIN DEBT GROWS BY $20.1B AND ABOUT TO HIT NEW RECORD HIGH!

NYSE Margin Debt Grows by $20.1B and About to Hit New Record High! New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) margin debt […]

Peak Gold Misunderstanding, is Gold About to Run Out?

By: Mike_Shedlock Is gold about to “run out”? The correct answer to that question is the likelihood of that happening is […]

The Wealth Report 2015

Welcome to the 2015 edition of The Wealth Report Andrew Hay Global Head of Residential andrew.hay@knightfrank.com +44 20 7861 1071 […]

Russia Nervously Eyes the U.S.-Iran Deal

By Reva Bhalla, Stratfor, When a group of weary diplomats announced a framework for an Iranian nuclear accord last week […]

New York Worst City for Job Creation

 By Douglas A. McIntyre The New York-Newark metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is the largest in the United States, with its population of […]

15 year table of UK asset class returns

  The different asset classes are differentiated by colour. Click to enlarge this table of historical asset class returns. Source: […]

China’s Fragile Evolution

By Rodger Baker andJohn Minnich Last week, China’s anti-corruption campaign took a significant turn, though a largely overlooked one. The Supreme People’s […]

NEW RULES COULD LET WEALTHY CHINESE INVEST UP TO $2M OVERSEAS

Individual Chinese citizens could soon be allowed to invest as much as $1 million to $2 million overseas without regulatory […]

The Salary Parents Deserve, According to a ‘Brilliant’ Calculator

A new ad campaign called “Hardest Job in the World” is a tribute to mothers, although it could easily apply […]

Mega-Treehouse is an Entire Apartment Building

Whoever designed this delightful apartment complex in Turin, Italy, really must have loved building tree houses in their backyard as a […]