I recently spoke at a conference called the New York Forum, where a rich mixture of current and up and coming business leaders and policymakers from around the world discussed…
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Posted in Global Economy
Tagged emerging markets, global growth, United States
Lord Keynes may be the most cited economist few people have actually read, but a few of his famous quips, such as “In the long run, we are all dead,”…
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Posted in U.S. Policy & Politics
Tagged Bernanke, Fed, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, inflation, QE2
As the balance of global economic power shifts, I’ve been thinking about a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies that geography professor Jared Diamond published…
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Posted in Investing
Tagged economic expansion, emerging markets, geography, global investing
I’m writing this from the departure lounge of the Ho Chi Minh City airport, once known as the Tan Son Nhut airbase outside Saigon. After 10 days of traveling in…
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Posted in Global Economy
Tagged capitalism, emerging markets, Vietnam