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Jim Rogers Talks About Inflation, China, Commodities, Unrest and India

By RUSSELL FLANNERY, Forbes Blog, Inflation, the outlook for commodity prices and social unrest in the Middle East are three of the most […]

Hopeful Message About the World’s Poorest

By DAVID LEONHARDT, NY Times, In the not too distant past — 1980 — one of every six babies born […]

The Libyan War of 2011

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United […]

Emerging Economies Move Ahead With Nuclear Plans

By HEATHER TIMMONS and VIKAS BAJAJ, NY Times, NEW DELHI — Despite Japan’s crisis, India and China and some other […]

Bulletproof Your Portfolio Against Another Global Meltdown

From Chazen Global Insights website, Suppose you knew only one thing about a particular set of people: that they were […]

Food For Thought – March Market Commentary – Who let Nuclear Godzilla into this house party?

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management, The first few months of 2011 started off incredibly […]

Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?

By Richard Florida, The Atlantic, First Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly spontaneously combusted from the bottom […]

Why Dubai’s Construction Boom Continues

By Zainab Fattah, BusinessWeek, Construction sites are buzzing with work across the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai more than two […]

Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The world’s attention is focused on Libya, which is now in a state of civil war […]

The Greatest Country on Earth

What the United States can learn from the tiny island nation of Mauritius. By Joseph E. StiglitzPosted Monday, March 7, […]