Top 50 Cities for Global Finance

Source: http://www.longfinance.net/images/GFCI17_23March2015.pdf 

1.  New York 
2.  London 
3.  Hong Kong 
4.  Singapore 
5.  Tokyo 
6.  Zurich 
7.  Seoul 
8.  San Francisco 
9.  Chicago 
10.  Boston 
11.  Toronto 
12.  Washington DC 
13.  Geneva 
14.  Riyadh 
15.  Vancouver 
16.  Shanghai 
17.  Luxembourg 
18.  Montreal 
19.  Frankfurt 
20.  Doha 
21.  Sydney 
22.  Shenzhen 
23.  Dubai 
24.  Busan 
25.  Taipei 
26.  Abu Dhabi 
27.  Tel Aviv 
28.  Melbourne 
29.  Beijing 
30.  Munich 
31.  Osaka 
32.  Johannesburg 
33.  Calgary 
34.  British Virgin Islands 
35. Vienna 
36.  Stockholm 
37.  Paris Kuala 
38. Lumpur 
39.  Cayman Islands 
40.  Amsterdam 
41.  Bermuda 
42.  Casablanca 
43.  Sao Paulo 
44.  Istanbul 
45.  Gibraltar 
46.  Bahrain 
47.  Rio de Janeiro 
48.  Panama 
49. Almaty 
50. Bangkok

Russian superhighway halfway across the globe

See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3009708/Plans-proposed-ambitious-12-400-mile-road-Russia-link-Britain-U-S.html

"Britain could be linked with America by road as part of an ambitious project to create the world's longest superhighway spanning half the circumference of the globe. Proposals have been put forward to build the mega route stretching about 12,400 miles from the western edge of Russia to the Bering Strait where the country nudges Alaska. Linking into existing road networks in Europe and Asia, for the first time it would allow travellers a proper highway to drive all way from the UK to the United States. A Trans-Siberian rail link as well as oil and gas pipes would run alongside the highway, and plans have been mooted already for a rail tunnel connecting the far flung Russian region of Chukotka - where football tycoon Roman Abramovich once served as governor - and Alaska. This new scheme is seen as a way of turning Russia into a global transportation hub, a bridge between Europe, Asia and North America, so revitalising the Russian economy and attracting new tourism. Vladimir Fortov, the Head of the Russian Academy of Science, recently put forward the uncosted plan dubbed the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR) to President Vladimir Putin. 'The project is very ambitious and expensive, but it will solve many problems in the development of the vast region,' he said, according to The Siberian Times."

Best Airports in the World

Source: http://www.worldairportawards.com/main/2015_airportawards_announced.html

1    Singapore Changi Airport
2    Incheon International Airport
3    Munich Airport
4    Hong Kong International Airport
5    Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
6    Zurich Airport
7    Central Japan International Airport (Nagoya)
8    London Heathrow Airport
9    Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
10  Beijing Capital International Airport

For the rest of the top 100 see: http://www.worldairportawards.com/Awards/world_airport_rating.html

Underground Tunnels of Chicago

There are six separate tunnel systems under Chicago.

 See http://www.wbez.org/series/curious-city/six-tunnels-hidden-under-chicago%E2%80%99s-loop-107791
http://www.chicagodetours.com/images/chicago-pedway-map-detours.pdf

Seven-year cycle predicts 2015 collapse

1966: Stock market collapse, Vietnam War, protests

1973:  Oil embargo (Oct), Yom Kippur war, Stocks collapse, recession

1980:  Inflation, Iran-Iraq war, Silver panic, Stocks crash, recession

1987:  Black Monday (Oct.), largest single-day crash ever

1994:  Bond collapse, DJIA bear market, war

2001:  Stock market crash, 911 (Sept.), recession

2008:  Stock market collapse 9/29 (Sept.), recession

2015:

In 1966, the Vietnam War was escalating and the US-USSR Space Race was also heating up. The economy and the stock market were in a bull phase and LBJ was president. He inherited a growing economy with low inflation, low unemployment and a stock market that was in a long-term uptrend. Hard to imagine but the national debt was relatively small. Additionally, in 1965 the GDP (4%) was higher than the unemployment rate (3.3%) the reverse of what we've seen in recent years. The FED kept interest rates low (1 to 2.5% range), in the post-WWII years. That fueled both economic and financial market growth through the 1950's and early '60s. Then as 1966 began the FED started tightening the credit reins by raising interest rates. Still, everything looked rosy as the year got underway the DJIA hit a new high. Then it pulled back briefly only to rack up another high in March. But thereafter the Dow collapsed some 22% by yearend.

http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/20-03-2015/130081-seven_year_cycle_collapse-0/

See also Seven Year Cycle Theory

New Megacity in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to complete building work on a new megacity in the desert. The King Abdullah Economic City, or KAEC (pronounced 'cake'), will be slightly larger than Washington DC and home to approximately two million residents. Covering 70 square miles, the metropolis is costing £67 billion ($100 billion) and lies 100km from Jeddah, the commercial hub of the kingdom, near the Red Sea.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3004044/New-Saudi-Arabia-67-billion-megacity-size-Washington-DC.html

Top 40 Cities in the World

See: http://www.knightfrank.com/resources/wealthreport2015/wealthpdf/04-wealth-report-global-cities-infog-all.pdf

1. London
2. New York
3. Hong Kong
4. Singapore
5. Shanghai
6. Miami
7. Paris
8. Dubai
9. Beijing
10. Zurich
11. Tokyo
12. Toronto
13. Geneva
14. Sydney
15. Taipei
16. Frankfurt
17. Moscow
18. Madrid
19. San Francisco
20. Vienna
21. Milan
22. Los Angeles
23. Jakarta
24. Munich
25. Amsterdam
26. Mumbai
27. Dublin
28. Johannesburg
29. Istanbul
30. Kuala Lumpur
31. Sao Paolo
32. Mexico City 
33. Berlin
34. Washington DC
35. Boston
36. Cape Town
37. Auckland
38. Buenos Aires
39. Rio de Janeiro
40. Tel Aviv

Runner-Up Cities (number of UHNWI):

Osaka (1471)

Seoul (1356)

Hamburg (862)

Chicago (827)

Houston (805)

Dallas (582)

Riyadh (549)

Montreal (534)

Dusseldorf (531)

Oslo (485)

Stockholm (479)

Bangkok (466)

Melbourne (456)

Barcelona (438)

Shenzhen (409)

Brussels (351)

Guangzhou (327)

Santiago (315)
Edinburgh
Monaco

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