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The Ride-Sharing, Handbag-Borrowing Productivity Revival

By Aki Ito and Jeff Kearns Rayshauna Gray makes frequent trips around New England from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. […]

The best real estate plays in 25 years

By Lawrence Delevingne, CNBC, The global real estate market in 2039 will be city-centric, with an increased focus on Asia […]

Shadow Banking Stealth Mutation: The Acronyms for the Next Financial Crisis

By: Gordon_T_Long According to the latest study by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) the unregulated $72 Trillion Global Shadow Banking System […]

6 Reasons Why You Need a Second Passport

By Nick Giambruno, International Living If you believe that spreading your political risk beyond one jurisdiction is the single most […]

Gundlach – Rates Will Remain Low in 2014

By Robert Huebscher, Slowing economic growth, low inflation and a lack of motivated sellers will keep interest rates depressed, at […]

The Most Important Economic Chart

By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, If you must know only one fact about the U.S. economy, it should be […]

Romania on the Right Track

Sometimes, change and reform don’t happen as fast as we’d like in some countries, and Romania has been one of […]

Russia Examines Its Options for Responding to Ukraine

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented […]

Russia-EU Trade Infographics

Illustration of Economic Interdependence By Pater Tenebrarum, RT and Der Spiegel have recently published a few infographics on trade between […]

Like Houdini, the Markets Escape Again and Again

By Stephen C. Sexauer, Allianz Global Investors, The Hungarians who fled Budapest in the 1930s have changed the world. This […]