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Think you’re buying on Amazon? It’s actually from Alibaba

Peter Koch, a 37-year-old engineer living in Serbia, says he’s making $3,000 every month by selling the same seven baby […]

By Aidualc | 26 Sep 17 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Private Equity, Stocks, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Can laneway homes fix Toronto’s housing market crisis?

With many Canadians being priced out of Toronto’s housing market and the municipal government trying to find ways to increase […]

By MarketAngel | 25 Sep 17 | Also posted in Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The most peaceful countries in the world

Haiti, Bolivia, Chile, and Latvia all have something in common: they’re more peaceful than the United States. The analysis comes […]

By MarketAngel | 22 Sep 17 | Also posted in Asia, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The World’s 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist, Every team’s general manager starts off with the same goal: to build a franchise that […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 20 Sep 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

A startup founded by Morgan Stanley and Accenture alums in the Hamptons is raking in 7-figure revenues as it spreads to luxury markets across the US

Growing up in the Hamptons, Alex Esposito and James Mirras knew one thing to be true: The beach was great, but […]

By MarketAngel | 19 Sep 17 | Also posted in Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

These are the greatest fears that people have in the world

Around the world, ISIS and climate change are neck-and-neck for the leading threats people perceive today. In the 2017 Pew Research […]

By MarketAngel | 18 Sep 17 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Canadian homebuyers flock to America as market rolls over

Foreign buyers spent a record $153 billion on U.S. housing in the year through March 2017, according to an annual […]

By MarketAngel | 15 Sep 17 | Also posted in Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

If a nuclear bomb explodes, these are the emergency supplies you should have prepared or grab on the run

A small nuclear bomb set off by a terrorist is one of 15 disaster scenarios the US government plans for. […]

By Aidualc | 28 Aug 17 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Rent Is Affordable to Low-Wage Workers in Exactly 12 U.S. Counties

For millions of Americans, housing costs are perversely mismatched to hourly wages. In 2017, the average U.S. worker would need […]

By Aidualc | 23 Aug 17 | Also posted in Real Estate | Comments (0)

States profiting the most from sin

Smoking, drinking alcohol and gambling are all — when done in excess — widely recognized as bad for your health. […]

By MarketAngel | 09 Aug 17 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Stocks | Comments (0)