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In the Russia-China Gas Deal, Did Putin Win?

22/05/2014(0)
So in striking a big new deal to supply natural gas to China, has Vladimir Putin outmaneuvered the U.S. and its European friends yet again? Much as Russia’s president ... Read More
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The Greek Bond Dump

20/05/2014(0)
Here’s a chart showing Greece’s 10-year bond yield during the past 10 days: Here’s what happened. On Thursday, speculation swept the markets that the government was about to levy ... Read More
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Springtime for Bankers

19/05/2014(0)
By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure. It’s true that we avoided a full replay of the Great ... Read More
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What property investors need to know about the Law of Accumulation

16/05/2014(0)
I’ve found that to succeed in property, investors must understand the Law of Accumulation, which states that everything great and worthwhile in life comes about as an accumulation of ... Read More
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Tax Reform Is Not a Fantasy

15/05/2014(0)
U.S. companies are stockpiling a record amount of foreign earned profits abroad, roughly $2.1 trillion. The amount of cash held overseas by U.S. multinationals is up 93 percent since ... Read More
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When Education Doesn’t Pay

14/05/2014(0)
When I was in business school, back at the turn of the millennium, a team from my New Venture Strategy class proposed an innovative way to pay for school: ... Read More
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London’s Latest Boom Is in Billionaires

13/05/2014(0)
Tucked into the U.K, the world’s seventh-richest country with an annual GDP of about $2.5 trillion, is an island of rich people with its own subculture, customs, habits and ... Read More
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What Beats by Apple would mean for music, and you

12/05/2014(0)
It’s an odd pairing, really, the gadget-obsessed tech giant from Silicon Valley teaming up with hip-hop super producer Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine. But late Thursday, reports ... Read More
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Did Putin Just Blink?

08/05/2014(0)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an art of keeping his detractors off-balance from the start of the crisis in Ukraine. Today, he had even pro-Russian separatists lost for ... Read More
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Billionaire Hedge Funders Made Money the Old-Fashioned Way

07/05/2014(0)
So Institutional Investor’s Alpha put out its 2013 hedge fund compensation ranking today, and I guess we should talk about it because rich people got paid money and that ... Read More
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