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Why you are living in the wrong spot, or Why you should get up and move to Mogadishu

Right now, I live in Chicago, but am considering a move outside the country.  I ask myself, “where would I choose to live were I born today?”  As the world is becoming more and more urban, major cities are becoming connected hotbeds of innovation.  What most interests me is how relatively underpopulated the United States, …

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IMF Special Drawing Rights, a key to making Chinese Renmibi a global reserve currency

The IMF special drawing rights basket is currently under review for changes, to be finished with their review in 2015.  John McCormick, Chairman of RBS APAC seems to think that China will push hard for the Renminbi to be placed within that basket, instantly, giving almost all countries, even those that don’t trade directly with China, a strong incentive to increase …

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Protest ignite across Brazil, the radicals demand: lower the bus fare by ten cents.

From the Guardian: An 18-year-old man was killed in Sao Paolo state after a car drove through barricades. The country’s president Dilma Rousseff called off a visit to Japan to deal with the crisis. Official estimates suggest that there were more than a million protesters out across the country in total. As Brazil, the emerging giant of …

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EconomyPolitics 4th annual Index of Economic Efficiency of the World

The top ten countries in terms of economic efficiency for 2013:   This is the first in a three part series where we identify the most attractive international investment opportunities for the next ten years. We start out by looking at economic efficiency, i.e. the fundamental freedoms and legal framework, which facilitates successful investing. In …

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Correlation between Right to Work laws and Republican Voting

With Michigan passing right to work laws, I ask Interesting on many levels. There is a high correlation between right to work laws and voting patterns.  This is a real blow to unions, even a greater blow than Scott Walker’s taking away collective bargaining for government employee unions. One thing I was noticing was the …

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