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I Am Quite International. My Background, Born In Turkey. My Family Is A Jewish Family From Iran, So I Went From Turkey To Iran To Israel, And Then Grew Up In Italy And Ended Up In U.s. For Graduate School. So I Tend To Look At Things From An International Perspective, And I Think That Gives You A Little Bit Of A Broader View Of What's Going On.

Edward Conard Provides A Provocative Interpretation Of The Causes Of The Global Financial Crisis And The Policies Needed To Return To Rapid Growth. Whether You Agree Or Not, This Analysis Is Well Worth Reading.

In An Extreme Credit Crunch, Leveraged Purchases Of Gold Cause Forced Sales, Because Any Price Correction Triggers Margin Calls. As A Result, Gold Can Be Very Volatile - Upward And Downward - At The Peak Of A Crisis.

I Think Globalization Actually Maintains And Fosters Various Elements Of National And Cultural Identities. I Don't Think Everything Is Being Homogenized. If Anything, Your Food, Your Culture, And Your Ethnicity Might Become Part Of The Globalized World, And Thus Absorbed By Other Countries.

Having Spent 10 Years Studying Emerging Markets, I Know That You Have Patterns Repeated Over And Over Again. A Bubble Is Like A Fire Which Needs Oxygen To Continue... When You See There Is No Oxygen, Things Change.