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A Refugee Bull Market in Jordan
Brian HicksUpdated June 26, 2007
AMMAN, JORDAN: As we scooted along through dense traffic that is typical of any developing country, my Jordanian host pointed out an Infinity SUV in front of us. "Look," he said as he darted his...
The Shoddiest Export
Brian HicksUpdated August 10, 2007
For years, Americans have been able to pay for enormous trade deficits by exchanging IOUs for imported consumer goods. Unfortunately for foreign creditors, a substantial percentage of those IOUs...
Fast Times at Pacific Rim High
Brian HicksUpdated November 7, 2005
Sometimes geopolitics seems more like high school. The self-assured jock (USA) begs all comers to "bring it on," while the brainiac (China) threatens to take his eminently copyable homework and go...
Rethinking the Electron
Brian HicksUpdated January 20, 2006
You've been reading Wealth Daily for quite some time now. It's nothing new to you that we keep you up to date with the latest in technology, energy, and every other area where the cutting edge will...
Web Warriors
Brian HicksUpdated March 17, 2006
The great Baltimorean H.L. Mencken once quipped, "War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands." We remain unfortunately stagnant...
Caffeinated Commodities
Brian HicksUpdated August 29, 2006
Every day its a new brew. Coffee can give you a heart attack. Or it can fight cancer. It can make investors rich or turn poor farmers towards the cocaine industry. Today we filter the...
Will Japan Destroy the Yen to Save the Dollar?
Brian HicksUpdated July 9, 2007
As the Japanese government continues holding short-term interest rates near zero while printing yen like it is going out of style, getting out of the yen has now replaced pachinko as the national...
Israel Biotech Comes to Baltimore
Brian HicksUpdated July 31, 2007
I've traveled far and wide to get the scoop on international investing opportunities. Sometimes, though, the story comes to me. Last week I gathered with a cadre of Israeli biotech heavyweights...
Brazil's Hot Stock Market
Brian HicksUpdated August 28, 2007
The hottest spot in Brazil isn't the Copacabana beach. It's not the Sambadrome built for Carnival parades or the violent streets of the hillside favelas. It's the stock exchange.
Taiwan Tied-Down?
Brian HicksUpdated November 14, 2005
As China weaves an international web of trade alliances, the hardest strand to sort out is also its most public foreign policy matter. Taiwan has maintained since 1949 that it is a separate entity...
Neodymium in the Rough
Brian HicksUpdated January 24, 2006
They're the stepchildren of the periodic table. Relegated to the bottom of the chart on the wall in your high school chemistry class, your teacher probably never even mentioned them. "Just worry...
Another Fulcrum
Brian HicksUpdated February 15, 2006
I remember riding in the front seat of a car in China and noting the nameplates of the cars in front of me, wondering, "Will names like Dongfeng ever roll off the tongues of American consumers?"
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