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Lonely Planet’s favourite final frontiers

By Joe Bindloss, Lonely Planet, Fifty years ago, the Starship Enterprise set out ‘to explore strange new worlds, to seek […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 09 May 16 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

How I Plan To Profit From The Chinese Real Estate Buying Spree

I remember watching the movie Gung Ho in 1986 and wondering along with the rest of the country if Japan […]

By MarketAngel | 08 May 16 | Also posted in North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Most Expensive Cities in the World to Live

A stronger dollar has propelled New York and Los Angeles into an annual ranking of the world’s 10 most expensive cities. Singapore took the top spot […]

By Aidualc | 07 May 16 | Also posted in North America, Retirement & Savings, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The 14 best places to go if the world is going to end

Man-made climate change is starting to take its toll, and the world will soon officially have warmed up by 1 degree […]

By Aidualc | 04 May 16 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Hong Kong Dollar, Rock Solid

The currency speculators are restless, again. Many, like George Soros and Kyle Bass, are reportedly taking aim at the Hong […]

By MarketAngel | 28 Apr 16 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

A Chinese fintech behemoth is getting ready to go public

By Daniel Roberts, Yahoo Finance, Ant is a misnomer for one Chinese fintech company. Ant Financial (its official name is […]

By Oxstones | 25 Apr 16 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Private Equity, Stocks, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

10 Countries Where Americans Can Save Big on Medical Care

TREATMENT AND TRAVEL     As medical care becomes more expensive in the United States, many Americans are traveling abroad […]

By MarketAngel | 22 Apr 16 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

HONG KONG TOPS RANKS OF WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE OFFICES

Hong Kong home prices may be coming down, but the city still ranks tops for the world’s most expensive office […]

By MarketAngel | 20 Apr 16 | Also posted in North America, Real Estate, Statistics | Comments (0)

How eToro’s Yoni Assia is bringing social trading to China and Russia

By Zach Miller, Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of eToro. What is eToro and why did you launch […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 18 Apr 16 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Private Equity, Retirement & Savings, Stocks, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Where does the world’s food grow?

By John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen, Brookings Institute, Developing countries are home to roughly 80 percent of the world’s population, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Apr 16 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Private Equity, Real Estate, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)