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Top Ten Largest Sovereign Wealth Funds

January 30, 2010 · 5 comments

in BRIC, China, G20, G8, GDP, India, OPEC, US debt, US dollar, capitalism, currencies, emerging markets, exchange rates, foreign investment, forex, gold, government, international economy, international stock market, market trends, oil, wealth, wealth protection, wealth transfer, world order, world reserve currency

With the phenomenal growth in sovereign wealth funds over the past thirty or so years – but especially in the last ten – it’s good to stop and take a look at where this new investment phenomenon is at today in 2010.
Here’s a list of the current top 10 sovereign wealth funds around the world.* [...]

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Off The Waist and Into the Wallet: Save At Least $100/mo. By Fasting For Financial Fitness

May 21, 2009 · 11 comments

in discipline, financial fitness, health, savings, wealthbuilding

Too bad it wasn’t the other way around: hard to spend money and easy to lose weight, right?  Why is it just the opposite?  We spend money on food and then we get it back in the form of fat (unless we’re really active and good about all of our food choices) — and I’m [...]

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If You Want To Feel Rich, Count the Things You Have That Money Can’t Buy

May 14, 2009 · 11 comments

in happiness, moneyenergy, psychology, success, wealth

This post is inspired by a tweet that @libertygirl3 made last night on Twitter.  She said “If you want to feel rich, count the things you have that money can’t buy.”
Immediately I was struck by the simple truth of this statement. This time, it didn’t hit me as a cliche or adage at all.  This [...]

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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making (by David Rothkopf, Viking Canada, 2008)

June 26, 2008 · 3 comments

in books, business, politics

Lately I’ve found a new source of distraction in this sporadically intriguing book by David Rothkopf:
The book is ostensibly about the world’s power elite and the nature of their power, wealth and influence. Sounds like predictable, run-of-the-mill summer reading? It’s not. It’s actually quite a nuanced approach to the subject. Rothkopf [...]

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