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hedgies short euro against dollar “like never before”

By Cardiff Garcia, FT,  A chart from SocGen’s latest Hedge Fund Watch showing that as of last week, hedge funds […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 30 Jan 12 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, North America | Comments (0)

Platinum: Industrial Man’s Gold

By Andrey Dashkov, Casey’s Research, Platinum – sometimes called “the richer man’s gold,” has been generating a lot of buzz […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Jan 12 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Eastern Europe, North America | Comments (0)

Year of the Dragon heralds power shift in China

Year of the Dragon heralds power shift in China by: Michael Sainsbury: The Australian Chinese New Year celebrations are expected […]

By Aidualc | 22 Jan 12 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

High Ratio of Public Debt to GDP constrains Economic Growth

From The Blog of HORAN Capital Advisors, Approximately two years ago Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff completed a […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Jan 12 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Towards the Paranormal

By William H. Gross, from Pimco website, The New Normal, previously believed to be bell-shaped and thin-tailed in its depiction […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 09 Jan 12 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

10 Trends from 2011 We Don’t Want to See in 2012

Looking back on 2011, the New Year can’t come fast enough. Will things be better in 2012? Without wanting to […]

By Aidualc | 05 Jan 12 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

10 surprises for 2012

LONDON (MarketWatch) — Shortly before the 1929 stock-market crash that ushered in a global recession, the American economist Irving Fisher […]

By DennisGao | 29 Dec 11 | Also posted in North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Lessons of the 1930s

Lessons of the 1930s There could be trouble ahead In 2008 the world dodged a second Depression by avoiding the […]

By Aidualc | 27 Dec 11 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Euro-zone: Damned with faint plans

Damned with faint plans Euro-zone government bonds have not been made safe—and the euro project remains in peril   THERE […]

By Aidualc | 26 Dec 11 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Hirst, Warhol Prices Outperform S&P 500 in Art-Investment Index

By Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg, Art by Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index over the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 23 Dec 11 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Investment Wisdom, North America, Private Equity, Retirement & Savings, Statistics | Comments (0)