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Black Swan Farming

September 2012 I’ve done several types of work over the years but I don’t know another as counterintuitive as startup […]

By Aidualc | 24 Sep 12 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Regions | Comments (0)

A Conversation with Ray Dalio – Video

By cfr, From YouTube, A Conversation with Ray Dalio (Video) Ray Dalio, founder and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

How to Invest Profitably on $1 a Day

A small savings exercise adds up in more ways than one You’ve read the stories about the death of “retail […]

By Aidualc | 22 Sep 12 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Netanyahu To Obama: ‘Wait For What? Wait Until When?’

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making it clear that Israel will not wait to take out Iranian […]

By Aidualc | 20 Sep 12 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Fed Panicked

This article originally appeared on The Daily Capitalist. Here is the Fed Open Market Committee’s announcement of November 25, 2008 […]

By Aidualc | 19 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Investors make $77M bet that a startup can solve the student debt crisis

By Christina Farr, http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/11/sofi/ A startup known as Social Finance has raised a sky-high $77.2 million in venture financing to bring its new lending […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 18 Sep 12 | Also posted in Private Equity | Comments (0)

Where Hedge Funds Are Allocating Their Investments

Where Hedge Funds Are Allocating Their Investments Broadly, hedge funds have mostly trailed their market benchmarks; however, investors may find […]

By Aidualc | 14 Sep 12 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Hedge Fund, Stocks | Comments (0)

The Business of Diamonds, From Mining to Retail

Diamonds. For thousands of years, they have been believed to bring good luck (and bad luck!) – health, wealth, and […]

By Aidualc | 12 Sep 12 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Latin America | Comments (0)

The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter You can have it all. It just won’t all be perfect. After years of observing individual […]

By Aidualc | 11 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Prepare For The Coming Housing Collapse: Part II

By Keith Jurow, Business Insider, In my last BUSINESS INSIDER article posted in May, I explained why a housing collapse […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 10 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)