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Knowledge is Power: Food Prices, Growth, Canadian Investing Edition

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Chinese rating agency Dagong warns on US fiscal cliff (beyondbrics) Money mistakes you shouldn’t make in 2013 (CityWire) Growth won’t save us – there won’t be any (MoneyWeek) What’s really behind food price hikes (Macleans) The best- and worst-performing stocks of 2012 (Trustnet, UK) Shares still beat property and cash (News.com.au, Australia) European equities defy Eurozone doomsters (The Asset) Coal ETFs that …

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Knowledge is Power: Total-Return, Full Employment, Three Worlds Edition

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 Dividend stocks are popular, maybe too popular (Financial Post) Glitter, glamour and gold (Arabian Business) Income-hungry investors should consider preferreds; Luukko (The Star) Guns in America  – Broken hearted (The Economist) Restore full employment with a massive infrastructure program (EPI) Nationalization Works (The Baseline Scenario) Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb divides the world into three (MacLeans) Total-return investing: An enduring solution …

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Knowledge is Power: Tesco’s Exit, Onions, Humanity Edition

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‘Limits to Growth’ Author Dennis Meadows’ –  Humanity Is Still on the Way to Destroying Itself’ (Der Spiegel) 2012 Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings (Platts) Knowing your onions in New York (The Hindu) Top Russian companies (RT) ALEX BRUMMER: Tesco’s foolish retreat from the US marketplace (This is Money) Why Argentina is now paying for its …

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Knowledge is Power: Jobs, Elizabeth Warren, China Model Edition

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Barack Obama and America’s decline (Asia Times) Budget DisarrayUS Set to Restage Greek Tragedy (Der Spiegel) Emerging economies halve their debt (Deutsche Welle) JOLTS – There were 3.4 People Looking for a Job for each Position Available in September 2012 (The Economic Populist) The Importance Of Elizabeth Warren (The Baseline Scenario) Obama’s Green Jobs Cost Big Bucks (CFR) China …

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Knowledge is Power: German Banking, Brazil, Wealth Effect Edition

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Germany: Europe’s quiet banking crisis (EuroMoney) Euro-Zone Unemployment Higher than Ever Before (Der Spiegel) The wealth effect: Spending like you are rich (Financial Post) The world needs more food – and Latin America is the place to invest (MoneyWeek) Presentation: Brazil – The end of the (love) affair? (DB Research) America’s deleveraging- Still a long way to go (The Economist Blog) …

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