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In Real Estate, Boring Is Good as Is Stability

Perfection is a moving target. Good luck nailing it. Such is the plight of the real estate investor: The perfect market – should it exist outside the realm of fancy – moves about the globe at a pace not fit

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Recovering the Magdalena River Waterway: Challenge Accepted

Historically, Colombia has suffered from a deficient and incomplete transportation network that isolated the country from overseas markets and made even domestic communication between provinces and regions a challenge. Numerous geographical, economic, and political factors that have profoundly impacted Colombia’s

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Bentley Powers Ahead in Customer Satisfaction: CFI.co Award Winner, Middle East

There has been powerful performance at Bentley Motors, Middle East this past year. Dubai is the home of a specially designed Bentley workshop which is the largest such facility anywhere in the world. And the welcome extended to the Continental

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Best Commercial Bank, China: CFI.co names China Merchants

China Merchants Bank, headquartered in Shenzen and boasting 500 branches, is the CFI.co 2014 winner of the award ‘Best Commercial Bank, China.’ The CFI.co Judging Panel congratulates China Merchants on pioneering cross-border financing activities and notes the Bank’s resolve to

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Mercury Capital Advisors Group Best Fund Raising Team Global

Mercury Capital Advisors Group have perfected flat management within the company, creating a team where everyone takes responsibility for their actions and strives to exceed expectations. The CFI.co Judging Panel felt that through an emphasis on teamwork, Mercury Capital Advisors Group

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Piketty’s Capital: A Problem Analysed In-Depth but not Solved

When a book on economics cites Honoré de Balzac and Jane Austen to provide evidence, one cannot fail to take note. It sure beats the rather uninspiring conclusion that R > G and this means trouble. The rate of return

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In Search of Lost Time

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” A novel in seven volumes with a total page count of well over 4,000, In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) is reportedly the

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If This Is Man / The Truce

“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.” A Jewish chemist from Turin, Primo Levi was picked up

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The Pursuit of Love

“Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives.” A Bright Young Thing from the roaring twenties, Nancy Mitford perhaps best epitomises the

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The Good Soldier Švejk

“And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.” Why read Catch-22 when the original on which Joseph Heller fashioned his memorable work is readily available? Catch-22

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