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3-D Printing Stirs Copyright Clash on Homemade IPhone Gear: Tech

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg A 3-D printer is displayed at the 3D & Virtual Reality Exhibition in Tokyo. Defending a copyright on […]

By Oracle | 18 Aug 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Idea of America

by Bill Bonner Our attention in today’s Daily Reckoning is neither on the Old World nor the New one — […]

By Aidualc | 16 Aug 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

China’s Growth Story Ends With a Whimper

  by Dan Amoss, Daily Reckoning,   The Chinese model of economic growth is flawed. It has wasted resources on […]

By Aidualc | 14 Aug 13 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

Game changers: Five opportunities for US growth and renewal

by Susan Lund, James Manyika, Scott Nyquist, Lenny Mendonca, and Sreenivas Ramaswamy, McKinsey Global Institute, The US economy is struggling […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 13 Aug 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Raising the next Bill Gates

Sarah Broach’s son Marlon would rather stick a fork in his eye than play soccer, but he can design one […]

By Aidualc | 09 Aug 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway

From Stratfor site,   Rail-based transport between Asia and Europe is considerably cheaper than seaborne transit, and Russia’s infrastructure investments […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 08 Aug 13 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Statistics, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Art Of Investing: The Rewards Aren’t Always Financial

NPR’s Uri Berliner is taking $5,000 of his own savings and putting it to work. Though he’s no financial whiz or […]

By Aidualc | 07 Aug 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World

LACONIA, N.H. — Seven months pregnant, at a time when most expectant couples are stockpiling diapers and choosing car seats, Renée […]

By Aidualc | 06 Aug 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Food For Thought – August 2013 – America’s Return as a Manufacturing Super Power is just Beginning

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Global Investment Strategist, Oxstones Investment Club, Everyone Loves a Comeback Story George Washington once said – […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Private Equity, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Companies in emerging markets to increase spending

Companies in emerging markets are likely to increase spending and investment this year, a survey of senior finance executives shows […]

By M Guliyev | | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)