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Why Everybody’s Going to War in the Middle East

Everybody’s going to war but we don’t know what we are fighting for.” ~ Nerina Pallot, from “Everybody’s Gone to […]

By Aidualc | 13 Sep 12 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter You can have it all. It just won’t all be perfect. After years of observing individual […]

By Aidualc | 11 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Prepare For The Coming Housing Collapse: Part II

By Keith Jurow, Business Insider, In my last BUSINESS INSIDER article posted in May, I explained why a housing collapse […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 10 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China Announces Massive £100bn Infrastructure Projects

(IBT) China has announced infrastructure projects worth one trillion yuan (£98.7b) sparking speculations of an economic revival in the world’s […]

By M Guliyev | 09 Sep 12 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Russian Evolution

By Mark Mobius, mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com, It might be tempting to say “everything old is new again” in Russia, given the return […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 Sep 12 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Stocks | Comments (0)

Which USA do you work in?

When it comes to getting a job, the USA has bifurcated into two employment worlds, the digital world and the […]

By Aidualc | 06 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Is the Stock Market Really Dying?

Pessimism is often most widespread when a long period of economic troubles is nearing an end. What follows can be […]

By Aidualc | 04 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

The Social Media Tech IPO Boom: An Insider’s Game?

Billion-dollar cash-outs at Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. Abysmal stock performance. Over the last year-and-a-half, several of the most prominent social […]

By Aidualc | 01 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

Poland’s Strategy

By George Friedman, Stratfor, Polish national strategy pivots around a single, existential issue: how to preserve its national identity and […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 30 Aug 12 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Will Burma Become Asia’s Next Economic Tiger?

By Michael Schuman, Business Times, On paper at least, Burma has all of the elements required to create another Asian […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Aug 12 | Also posted in Asia, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)