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Lost cities: where to pretend you are Indiana Jones

By Sarah Gilbert, Lonely Planet. Unearthing lost cities used to be the preserve of machete-wielding, Indiana Jones types, but advances […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 05 Jul 15 | Also posted in Asia, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Retirement & Savings, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Interactive Migration Map

From  http://visual.ly/interactive-migrations-map Click on the link:  Interactive Migration Map  to go to the map and pick a country to see […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jun 15 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

How finance flows to Africa

As they prepare for the fast-approaching Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa (July 13-16, 2015), policymakers, […]

By MarketAngel | 15 Jun 15 | Also posted in Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

New ‘Silk Road’ could alter global economics

From Robert Berke, Oilprice.com, Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Jun 15 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Private Equity, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Why Shiite Expansion Will Be Short-Lived

Analysis Forecast That a bloc of Shiite states has coalesced in the Middle East is a significant geopolitical development; that […]

By Aidualc | 05 Jun 15 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Are Emerging Markets Still An Asset Class?

Mohamed El-Erian, the former PIMCO CEO, wrote a piece for Bloomberg View questioning the merits of emerging markets as an […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 May 15 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Statistics | Comments (0)

Significant Slip—or Just a Blip—in Emerging Markets’ Foreign Exchange Reserves?

By Mark Mobius, Mobius Blog, For those looking to invest in emerging markets, a steady growth in foreign exchange reserves—in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Apr 15 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

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 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Apr 15 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

These charts show you which countries own most of the United States’ foreign debt

By Simran Khosla, Global Post, US President Barack Obama unveiled his proposed 2016 budget last week, and from its plans for student […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 15 Feb 15 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Africa’s Electrifying Future

Emerging and frontier markets are a focal point of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which takes place […]

By MarketAngel | 05 Feb 15 | Also posted in The Big Picture | Comments (0)