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Emerging Markets

PEAK OIL. It’s Here. We’re Screwed. [CHART]

If you haven’t heard of “peak oil” before, you’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the coming years, because it’s here.  For the first time ever – EVER, in 2010, oil consumption exceeded production by over 5m barrels per day. And one wonders why we have $100 oil and $4 gas. While politicians [...]

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Middle East Revolutions and the Markets

With citizens revolting in country after country around the Middle East, you’d think revolution was the new black.  When Tunisia’s leadership was ousted, it barely made the nightly news.  Egypt eventually became a front-page story given a rather prolonged period of demonstrations, the fact that Americans at least know Egypt for their pyramids and Google [...]

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How to Invest in Cuba – Obama Warming to Cuba Travel?

How to Invest in Cuba will soon be a standard investor question once the press starts talking about how Obama’s going to open the flood gates for easing travel restrictions.  Presently, it’s illegal to even spend any money in Cuba, which essentially means an outright travel ban, but today there were some sources citing an [...]

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