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Group of 7 to Intervene to Stabilize Yen’s Value

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]