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New York’s Free-Tuition Program Will Help Traditional, but Not Typical, Students

The program to provide free tuition for students at New York State’s public colleges and universities passed on Friday by […]

By Aidualc | 12 Jun 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

We’ll Live to 100 – How Can We Afford It?

By World Economic Forum, Link – A white paper on global demographic challenge and the massive scope of the growing retirement savings […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Strange Currencies and Barter 101

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, Once upon a time currencies had intrinsic value. Ever wonder where the term “buck” comes […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 05 Jun 17 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Why Interstate Health Insurance Won’t Fix Obamacare

By Patrick Watson, Connecting the Dots  Congress has a new healthcare plan to replace Obamacare. It may go nowhere since many […]

By Aidualc | 11 May 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Retirement & Savings, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Map Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Health Across US

Sara G. Miller Staff Writer LiveScience.com Map Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Health Across US Climate change is poised […]

By Aidualc | 09 May 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

The World’s Fastest Growing Economies

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, We have updated with the latest 2017 estimates and 2018-22 average annual forecasts and ranked […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

I attended the top of the Canadian Housing Market, so you didn’t have to

by Tim Bergin Originally, I thought this would be a bit of a joke.  There were billboards in all the […]

By MarketAngel | 08 May 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Amazon Effect

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, But still lots of room for growth:  https://macromon.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/the-amazon-effect/

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 May 17 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Where Your Tax Dollars Go

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, More than half of every dollar went to health care, military last year – MarketWatch […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

In Europe, cohabitation is stable…right?

What matters for the well-being of children is family stability, rather than marriage per se. This is the view of […]

By MarketAngel | 28 Apr 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Statistics, Western Europe | Comments (0)