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China Coal-Fired Economy Dying of Thirst as Mines Lack Water

From Bloomberg News, At first glance, Daliuta in northern China appears to have a river running through it. A closer […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Jul 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Want World Domination? Size Matters

Want World Domination? Size Matters By RICHARD N. ROSECRANCE CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HORACE GREELEY, Napoleon Bonaparte and Cecil Rhodes may […]

By Oracle | 28 Jul 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

18 Housing Markets That Are More Overvalued Than The US

Societe Generale Albert Edwards pointed us to this chart comparing home prices across the developed world. For comparability purposes, the OECD […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jul 13 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

China’s Zhu Changhong Helps Steer Nation’s Currency Reserves

By LingLing Wei and Bob Davis, WSJ, BEIJING—At an official Chinese New Year’s party earlier this year, a former bond […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom | Comments (0)

Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part III

By: Eric Sprott, From Sprott Global site, Recent dramatic declines in gold prices and strong redemptions from physical ETFs (such […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Jul 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Russia breaks into top 5 world economies, displacing Germany

Russia has overtaken Germany as the fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the latest World […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Jul 13 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The #1 Thing Worrying Hedge Fund Managers Right Now

By Matthew Boesler, From SF Gate, BofA Merrill Lynch just released the results of its July Fund Manager Survey, which […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jul 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Hedge Fund, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The hot business of exporting America’s franchises

The hot business of exporting America’s franchises   Foreigners all over the world are craving U.S. franchises, like this one […]

By Oracle | 20 Jul 13 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Coming Up with the Cash, Condo and Cows for that China Wedding

There’s no word of this causing any mass incidents yet, but a map illustrating how China’s rising real estate prices […]

By MarketAngel | 19 Jul 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Statistics | Comments (0)

Dambisa Moyo’s take on Frontier Markets

I just read a great interview by Jonathan Barnes of the CFA Institute Magazine, in which he interviews economist Dambisa […]

By Brian Andreosky | 18 Jul 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Finding Oxstones, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)