I found this interesting story on how China views barter, identifying it as “Win-Win” deals. For the whole story (more…)

As if we don’t have enough financial challenges on our domestic soil…the U.S. has agreed to strengthen South Korea’s credit rating and domestic financial market with a (more…)

Every January in Davos, Switzerland, the prestigious World Economic Forum takes place. World political leaders, Hollywood celebrities as well as CEO’s of major corporations, and the hedge fund gurus all attend. (Annual membership to the WEF is $750,000.)

Over the last (more…)

Dell expects sales in the Chinese marketplace to surpass both the U.S. and the EU in a few short years. See (more…)

The world is slowly changing in many ways, in a positive way. Growing affordable fresh organic food in the intercity is underway. It’s a growing vision (more…)

According to David Nuttle there are 2.9 billion potential stakeholders for barter (using barter) to improve their lives. His organization has plans to make (more…)

This is the fourth year for the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York. (The first meeting for the CGI outside the USA is scheduled this December in (more…)

One of the largest food and agricultural scramble (to get control of these assets) in history is unfolding, according to agricultural expert, and (more…)

When one talks about the biggest deals done in barter, referred to as as countertrade and offsets in the international arena, the players are usually multinational companies. To learn more (more…)

Foreign creditors (our trade deficit remains massive, $600 to $700 billion a year) are hedging their bets by buying direct ownership stakes in our country’s assets. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the rest of the world currently owns way more of America (stocks, bonds, real estate, etc.) than America owns of the rest of the world…by a margin of $3 trillion.

Moreover, net foreign ownership is increasing (more…)