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Why Everybody’s Going to War in the Middle East

Everybody’s going to war but we don’t know what we are fighting for.” ~ Nerina Pallot, from “Everybody’s Gone to […]

By Aidualc | 13 Sep 12 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | 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, North 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, North America, 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, North America, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China Announces Massive £100bn Infrastructure Projects

(IBT) China has announced infrastructure projects worth one trillion yuan (£98.7b) sparking speculations of an economic revival in the world’s […]

By M Guliyev | 09 Sep 12 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Real Estate, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Character, Policy and the Selection of Leaders

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The end of Labor Day weekend in the United States traditionally has represented the beginning of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America | Comments (0)

China’s Roads-to-Subways Construction Spurs Stocks Rally

By Jasmine Wang, Bloomberg, China approved plans to build 2,018 kilometers (1,254 miles) of roads, spurring the biggest stock- market […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 08 Sep 12 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Real Estate | Comments (0)

The Russian Evolution

By Mark Mobius, mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com, It might be tempting to say “everything old is new again” in Russia, given the return […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 Sep 12 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Stocks, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Which USA do you work in?

When it comes to getting a job, the USA has bifurcated into two employment worlds, the digital world and the […]

By Aidualc | 06 Sep 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

A View of the ‘Real China’ from Beijing’s Wangfujing Street

By Tony Sagami While most of Wall Street is at the beach, my colleague Tony Sagami just spent the last […]

By Aidualc | 05 Sep 12 | Also posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Stocks | Comments (0)