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Events in China – the meaning and prospects
As Washington Targets Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina
At the most fundamental level, the shift from investing in real assets to financial asset investing occurs because the structure of the global economy today incentivizes financial asset investment more than real asset investment.
“Half way through the second decade of the 21st century, evidence is growing that the global economy is becoming increasingly fragile. Not…
Emerging Market Economies To Slow Further in 2016
The global economic crisis that erupted in 2008-09 is not over; it is merely shifting
The signing of the TPP agreement in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 4, 2015, represents in a sense the founding “Constitutional Convention” of global corporate government
Can Europe slow U.S. multinational corporate tax rip-offs?
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