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20 Signs That We’re Approaching A Global Food Crisis

Image: sshb via Flickr In case you haven’t noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food […]

By Aidualc | 02 May 11 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Bad Education

By Malcolm Harris, From nplusonemag.com site,   The Project On Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

ETFs can present pricing problems

By Jessica Toonkel   When Tom Lydon switched from working solely with mutual funds to using exchange-traded funds in 2000, […]

By M Guliyev | 25 Apr 11 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, Western Europe | Comments (0)

OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – April 2011 – Real Estate Commentary

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, CEO, & Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management Recently, many prominent investors have sounded the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Real Estate, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The 10 Best Stocks for Blue Gold

By Dan Dzombak, Motley Fool, For the past hundred years, oil has been the kingmaker among nations; whoever had it […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Gold and currencies: an historical perspective

By David Levenstein, Gold was money long before currencies came into the fray but a look at how the world […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Apr 11 | Also posted in Commodities, Western Europe | Comments (0)

U.S. Should Value Greed, Not Need

Margaret Thatcher famously quipped , “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But […]

By Aidualc | 23 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Commodities and the global economy after QE2 – Simon Hunt

By Simon Hunt, Simon Hunt says, 2012 will see a new round of money printing by the Fed resulting in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

More Foreigners Snapping Up Foreclosed Property

By Jonathan Beer, 247 wall st site, Foreigners purchased about $41 billion worth of residential property in 2010, accounting or […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 Apr 11 | Also posted in Real Estate | Comments (0)

Homeownership no longer the American dream?

Though housing prices have dropped to new lows, folks aren’t sure a home is a solid investment anymore. By Kim Peterson […]

By Aidualc | 21 Apr 11 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)