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European non-core loan sales up 40 per cent, says PwC

From PwC, 2013 was a record year from a transaction perspective with EUR64bn of Europe’s non-core loans sold as part […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 28 Mar 14 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Raising the bar: Vietnam’s luxury chocolate pioneers

Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) – Deep in the Mekong Delta, two Frenchmen have their heads buried in a sack […]

By Aidualc | 27 Mar 14 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Gundlach – Rates Will Remain Low in 2014

By Robert Huebscher, Slowing economic growth, low inflation and a lack of motivated sellers will keep interest rates depressed, at […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Investment Wisdom, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

How Does the U.S. Power Grid Work?

With over 160,000 miles of transmission lines, the U.S. power grid is designed to handle natural and man-made disasters, as […]

By Aidualc | 25 Mar 14 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, North America, Private Equity, Real Estate | Comments (0)

10 best places in the world to retire

Sophisticated cities with every modern convenience, beach-front hideaways, medieval towns, tropical islands, temperate mountain valleys. International Living has released their 2014 Annual […]

By Aidualc | 24 Mar 14 | Also posted in Asia, Latin America, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

The Most Important Economic Chart

By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, If you must know only one fact about the U.S. economy, it should be […]

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

Romania on the Right Track

Sometimes, change and reform don’t happen as fast as we’d like in some countries, and Romania has been one of […]

By Aidualc | 21 Mar 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Russia Examines Its Options for Responding to Ukraine

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented […]

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

Russia-EU Trade Infographics

Illustration of Economic Interdependence By Pater Tenebrarum, RT and Der Spiegel have recently published a few infographics on trade between […]

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

How China (and the Rest of the Emerging Markets) Spend Today

By Matthew O’Brien, The Atlantic, After 30 years of catchup growth, consumers around the world are starting to look more […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 19 Mar 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)