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Globalization at Warp Speed

Robert J. Samuelson September 7, 2015
Globalization thrives in financial markets and may even control them. Much focus is on the world’s fastest-growing economies. For example, China’s consumes near half of the world’s aluminum, copper, lead, nickel and zinc, up from 13 percent in 2000, writes economist Robert J. Samuelson for the Washington Post. Reduced demand for oil due to slowed growth in China and an increased US supply has...

Report: 61,000 Indian Millionaires Shifted Overseas in Last 14 Years

August 3, 2015
Wealthy individuals are mobile and can relocate to jurisdictions that offer competitive taxes, schools, business opportunities and security. Globalization and improved transportation, communications along with second citizenship have contributed to mobility. The report from New World Wealth and LIO Global covers the years 2000 to 2014 and points to the top senders as China, 91,000; India, 61,000...

Globalization With Chinese Characteristics – What Are the Prospects?

Jean-Pierre Lehmann July 13, 2015
The international community has long recognized that the choices made by China weigh large on any global issue or industry. “In the incredibly fast-paced transformations in the dozen years since the publication China has become a global power in virtually every domain,” writes Jean-Pierre Lehmann for Forbes. China’s outbound foreign direct investment now exceeds inbound FDI. Likewise, China sends...

Why the World Is Becoming the Un-Sweden

John Feffer June 15, 2015
Fifty years ago, academics predicted that that the two ideological systems of the Cold War would converge to include the best features of capitalism and collectivism, or a Swedish type of social democracy. They expected modernization to force governments to evolve. Today, many countries demonstrated a convergence, but with versions that incorporate the worst of both – ruthless forms of capitalism...

Bigger, Deglobalizing World May Be Hostile for Investors

James Saft May 8, 2015
Much of the world is trying to put a pause on global trade, immigration and other means of integration and globalization. The global credit crisis triggered the trends: “De-globalization is the partial unwinding of the long-running shift to arrangements that allow capital, goods and services to move more freely around the world,” writes James Saft. He describes evidence of resistance to...

The Great Unraveling of Globalization

Jeffrey Rothfeder April 30, 2015
The trends in globalization of business and trade come and go, and long-term investment is a challenge in competitive global markets. Companies that fail to adjust suggest that globalization is falling apart. In an article for the Washington Post, Jeffrey Rothfeder describes multinational firms that complain about global sales results. In a climate of uncertainty, past sales do not promise future...

South Africa: Xenophobia in South Africa - a Lack of Visionary Leadership

Ozias Tungwarara April 17, 2015
Xenophobia thrives in South Africa as is the case with much of the world. Citizens, especially those experiencing hard times, blame less fortunate foreigners, often from neighboring states, for poverty, crowded conditions, and crime. “In 2000 a major scenario exercise: ‘Southern Africa in 2020’ painted a grim picture of the southern Africa region in two decades, suggesting that only a new...