Monthly Archives: April 2010

Homegrown Talent

We’ve written a fair amount about the emerging markets in the Far East and India, and it will continue to be a hot topic for many more years. It’s interesting to see how quickly the economic and political landscape has … Continue reading

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Filed under Branding, Business, China

The Great Firewall

The title above is the ‘cheeky’ euphemism the press has given to the latest, and perhaps last chapter in the ongoing struggle between Google and the Chinese authorities. In a final defiant move against the list of no-go web pages, … Continue reading

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Drowning, Not Waving

A new book written by a Boston University Economics professor, Larry Kotlikoff, argues banking reform has to happen quickly and comprehensively or we’ll be like “Germany in 1920.” While most governments in the West have been debating wide-spread regulatory reform, … Continue reading

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Filed under Global Markets, High Finance, politics