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World’s Friendliest and Unfriendliest Cities

Every year, Travel + Leisure asks readers to weigh in on their favorite cities around the globe in our annual World’s […]

By Aidualc | 21 Sep 15 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics | Comments (0)

China’s capital flight explained | FT World

From YouTube FT World, Record capital outflows from China – consumers and investors may be losing confidence in Chinese government […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 15 Sep 15 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, North America, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

What a Million-Dollar Home Looks Like Around the World

1. MONACO   $1 million buys 162 square feet of luxury property 2. HONG KONG $1 million buys 221.7 square […]

By Aidualc | 30 Jul 15 | Also posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Beyond the Greek Impasse

By George Friedman The Greek situation — having perhaps outlived the term “crisis,” now that it has taken so long to […]

By MarketAngel | 11 Jul 15 | Also posted in The Big Picture | Comments (0)

CHINA’S PING AN “JUST GETTING STARTED” ON OVERSEAS PROPERTY BUYS

  BY MICHAEL COLE   Ping An kicked off China’s overseas spending spree by acquiring the Lloyd’s of London building for […]

By Aidualc | 09 Jul 15 | Also posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

A researcher explains why Panamanians are the happiest people in the world

By Matthew DeBord, Business Insider, Gallup recently published its Gallup-Healthways State of Global Well-Being: “2014 Country Well-Being Rankings” report. For the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

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 Africa / Middle East, Asia, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

SWFs set to allocate more to global real estate

By James Williams – Sovereign Wealth Funds are showing a lot of appetite for real estate assets as total AUM in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 Jun 15 | Also posted in Asia, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | 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 Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | 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 Africa / Middle East, 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 | Comments (0)