Group of 7 to Intervene to Stabilize Yen’s Value By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg News Yoshihiko Noda, Japan’s finance minister, […]
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 […]
Wen Jiabao Addresses Global Imbalances And Vows To Eradicate Chinese Poverty By 2020
ByAgustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Blog, Chinese authorities have released a series of announcements indicating that they might be beginning to correct […]
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 […]
Luxury’s Falling Starts
The stars have aligned for the luxury industry since the global recovery began. But the earthquake in Japan is a […]
Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant
From Stratfor site, A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to […]
Secrecy conference: In countries like Romania and Cambodia, illegal leaks can be transparency’s only hope
By Michael Morisy While, in the United States, WikiLeaks has caused a furor for its journalism-by-data-dump, similar leaks abroad are […]
Never Fight a Land War in Asia
By George Friedman, Stratfor, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future […]
Currency Wars Retreat as Fighting Inflation Makes Emerging Markets Winners
By Garth Theunissen and Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg, As recently as last month, governments of emerging economies from South Africa […]
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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 […]