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E-Commerce is a Bear

By Andy Dunn, In two decades of e-commerce in the US, we have produced only two standalone e-commerce companies of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Jun 14 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, North America | Comments (0)

Borderlands: The View Beyond Ukraine

From Stratfor, Installment in George Friedman’s recent series written during his journey from the Baltics, through Central and Eastern Europe […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Jun 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Ackman Said to Plan Public Hedge Fund in London

By Alexandra Stevenson, NY Times, One of Wall Street’s boldest investors, the billionaire hedge fund manager William A. Ackman, is […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Jun 14 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Stocks, Western Europe | Comments (0)

ASEAN Cooperation: A Growing Global Power

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton, Southeast Asia represents one of the fastest-growing regions of the world today, and to us, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 05 Jun 14 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Geopolitical Journey, Part 2: Borderlands

By George Friedman, Stratfor, A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 04 Jun 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

This graphic shows how much CO2 the average American produces each year

By Simran Khosla, Global Post, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/global-warming/140527/graphic-shows-how-much-co2-american-american-produces-climate-change

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Jun 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

At big-ticket dinners, a blunt Bernanke sounds theme of low rates

By Jonathan Spicer and Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Reuters, In a series of quarter-million-dollar dinners with wealthy private investors, Ben Bernanke has […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Jun 14 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Don’t Let The Ukraine Crisis Go To Waste: Buy These 3 Stocks Instead

By StreetAuthority, Rodney Dangerfield said it best in the movie ” Caddyshack” when he was talking to his broker while […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 Jun 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Stocks | Comments (0)

BRICS emerging nations close to launching bank; to start lending in 2016

By Alonso Soto, Reuters, The five BRICS nations will likely agree to fund their $100 billion development effort equally, giving […]

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

The World’s Most Content (and Miserable) Countries

By Thomas Frohlich and Vince Calio, 247WallSt, World news does not always fully capture people’s level of happiness. Last year, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 May 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)