Knowledge is Power: Diversification Lessons, Crumbling Portfolio, French Households Edition

Coombs: Have diversification-seeking investors learnt any lessons from 2008? (FE Trustnet) Stock investors haven’t been this bearish in 15 years (MarketWatch) On the farce that is US elections…….. A choice of billionaires (Le Monde) OIL PRICES: ARE WE SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL? (Money Observer) A dash of data: Spotlight on French households (OECD Observer) Finding simple ways to …

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Knowledge is Power: Global Dividend Study, Biosimilars, Extrapolation Edition

After Greek Turmoil, Should You Give European Stocks a Chance? (Schwab) A Solution for Yield-Starved Insurance Companies: Dividend Equities (Standish) Henderson Global Dividend Study – Edition 7 (Henderson) Lifting the lid on US equity market volatility (Invesco UK) Don’t Submit to Market Distortions (AB Blog) Research Drives Biotech Gains, but Some Valuations Appear High (T.Rowe Price) Where in the World …

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Knowledge is Power Special: Hammurabi’s Code, Circus of Innovation, Trading Places Edition

Socialism in America — Crooked Timber Rio: Brazil’s silicon beach | World news | The Observer Stumbling and Mumbling: Who benefits from benefits? The great corporate cash-hoarding crisis | Al Jazeera America America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking Uwe E. Reinhardt – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com China’s latest scandal is counterfeit condoms …

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Knowledge is Power: Intellectual Idiocy, Buy Canada, Krugman on Australia Edition

Small island nations – how much do you know? (The Guardian) U.S. unemployment rate falls to seven-year low (MarketWatch) but The road to recovery: furloughs, layoffs and job numbers that shade the truth (The Guardian) Fastfood not good for workers or suppliers – Frappuccino society (Le Monde) Paul Krugman: Australia can weather the Chinese economic downturn (The Guardian) The …

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Knowledge is Power: Paternoster, Tsar Bomba, Market Corrections Edition

David Rosenberg: Why investors’ fears about China are overblown (Financial Post) Buying the Dips Doesn’t Work for Everyone (Jason Zweig, WSJ) Lost Decade in Emerging Markets: Investors Already Halfway There (Bloomberg) Lovin’ their elevator: why Germans are loopy about their revolving lifts (The Guardian) Once, firms cherished their workers. Now they are seen as disposable (The Guardian) …

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