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Big business in chicken wings

  Wing Zone, Wingman and WingFiesta. And, oh yeah, WingNutz. Chicken wing franchises are now among the hottest in the […]

By Oracle | 03 Aug 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Guru to the Stars

By JONATHAN R. LAING, Barrons, Howard Marks has made a killing on distressed debt. So, what does he think of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 Aug 13 | Also posted in Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom | Comments (0)

Housing heats up but not at boiling point yet

If you tried to buy a home in Phoenix a year ago, you probably would have been able to land […]

By DennisGao | 30 Jul 13 | Also posted in Real Estate | Comments (0)

Investments In Wealth Management

Everyday, investors from around the world watch their computer screens looking to see how the markets are doing. What most […]

By M Guliyev | 29 Jul 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Retirement & Savings, Stocks | Comments (0)

Want World Domination? Size Matters

Want World Domination? Size Matters By RICHARD N. ROSECRANCE CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HORACE GREELEY, Napoleon Bonaparte and Cecil Rhodes may […]

By Oracle | 28 Jul 13 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

SAC Is Going Down but Does it Help Main Street?

  Yesterday U.S. Attorney General of the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, achieved what many think is his […]

By Oracle | 27 Jul 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Hedge Fund | Comments (0)

18 Housing Markets That Are More Overvalued Than The US

Societe Generale Albert Edwards pointed us to this chart comparing home prices across the developed world. For comparability purposes, the OECD […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jul 13 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

What’s the Point of Owning All This Stuff?

When my wife Jo and I decided to sell our home in Illinois, the first question we asked ourselves was, […]

By MarketAngel | 25 Jul 13 | Also posted in Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part III

By: Eric Sprott, From Sprott Global site, Recent dramatic declines in gold prices and strong redemptions from physical ETFs (such […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

100 Years of Change [Infographic]

As a nation that’s ever changing, it’s sometimes easy to overlook some of the changes that happen within our nation […]

By MarketAngel | 24 Jul 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)