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Gold and currencies: an historical perspective

By David Levenstein, Gold was money long before currencies came into the fray but a look at how the world […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Apr 11 | Also posted in Commodities, North America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

U.S. Should Value Greed, Not Need

Margaret Thatcher famously quipped , “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But […]

By Aidualc | 23 Apr 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Commodities and the global economy after QE2 – Simon Hunt

By Simon Hunt, Simon Hunt says, 2012 will see a new round of money printing by the Fed resulting in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Innovation, Espionage, and Chinese Technology Policy

  Innovation, Espionage, and Chinese Technology Policy Prepared statement by Adam Segal Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and […]

By Aidualc | 22 Apr 11 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

More Foreigners Snapping Up Foreclosed Property

By Jonathan Beer, 247 wall st site, Foreigners purchased about $41 billion worth of residential property in 2010, accounting or […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Homeownership no longer the American dream?

Though housing prices have dropped to new lows, folks aren’t sure a home is a solid investment anymore. By Kim Peterson […]

By Aidualc | 21 Apr 11 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, North America, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

S&P Negative Watch for US Flagged Financial Sector as Major Risk

From NakedCapitalism website, Yes, I know I dissed the S&P report as fundamentally wrongheaded, but as we will discuss shortly, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Four Unlikely Companies Show Insider Stock Buys: John Dorfman

By John Dorfman, Bloomberg, How much would you pay for some inside information? No, this isn’t an exercise in entrapment. […]

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

Solar on the Water

  Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Elvin Batz, an installer at SPG Solar, checks the pontoon structure and […]

By Aidualc | 20 Apr 11 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, North America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Y2K=QE2

From http://www.marketanthropology.com site, History shows us that each bubble needs a tragic muse. The Nasdaq Bubble had both the allure […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, North America | Comments (0)