At Davos, the globalizers are gone – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in January 30th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Trade, Davos, Globalization, Men And Women, Men Women, Nots

But for the first time, some of the most powerful folks inside the Davos event are challenging the value of globalization. These aren’t the have-nots of years past. These are the men and women driving some of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
At Davos, the globalizers are gone – washingtonpost.com

Risk Report Warns on Asset Price Collapse – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in January 17th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Geopolitical, Asset Price, Asset Prices, Blog, China, Collapse, Glance, Global Risks, Globalization, Globe, Nytimes, Path, Relapse, Retrenchment, Risk Report, Slowdown, Systemic Risk, World Economic Forum

Just a few weeks before Davos, the World Economic Forum has released its Global Risks Report 2009, in which it underlines not only an increasing systemic risk across the globe, but the potential for a collapse in asset prices, a slowdown in China and a retrenchment from globalization. The trick to avoiding a financial relapse, [...]

Visions of Europe in 2030: A Postmodern Middle Ages – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Posted by Matt in July 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Europe, Global Government, Globalization, Globe, Governance Structure, Insecurity, Long Transition, Middle Ages, Nation State, News International, Online News, Postmodern, Spiegel, Spiegel Online, United States, Visions, Way To Peace

In the future, globalization will further weaken the nation-state. A long transition process toward global government will be, like the Middle Ages, a time of great insecurity. But Europe’s governance structure will prevail, even in the United States. It will buy its way to peace and its model will be copied across the globe.
Visions of [...]

Europe is in Trouble

Posted by Matt in July 18th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Europe, Financial, Asian Expansion, Asian Exporters, Asian Factories, Better Health, Business Strategy, Early 1800s, Emerging Market, Global Recession, Globalization, Good Business, Gross Domestic Product, Japanese Banks, Luddite, Market Expansion, Mortgage Banks, Precarious Position, Trillion, Two Edged Sword, Us Trade Deficit, Western European Banks

Globalization is a two-edged sword. On balance, it has brought prosperity to those who have embraced it, with rising lifestyles, better health, longer lives, and more. The more we need each other, the less likely it is that we’ll shoot each other. Shooting your customers is not a good business strategy. And while the growth [...]

Geopolitics: The Three E’s of War

Posted by Matt in June 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Geopolitical, War, Disintegration, Economic Dynamics, Economic Volatility, Ethnic Conflict, First-World-War, Foreign Policy Magazine, Gaza, Global Financial Crisis, Globalization, Harvard Professor, International Economy, Niall-Ferguson, Nuclear Umbrella, Nuclear Weapon, Regimes, Serious Trouble, Social Unrest, superpower, Syria Lebanon, Upheaval

Introduction
“Economic volatility, plus ethnic disintegration, plus an empire in decline: That combination is about the most lethal in geopolitics. We now have all three. The age of upheaval starts now.”
The above quote comes from the current edition (March/April 2009) of Foreign Policy magazine on page 58. The author had earlier explained how the three E’s described [...]

Eastern Europe’s Economic Crash

Posted by Matt in March 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Europe, Capitalism, Collapse, Currencies, Drawbridges, Eastern Europe, Economic Crash, Economic Downturn, Financial Crisis, Full Coverage, Global Downturn, Global Financial Crisis, Globalization, Jan Puhl, Labor Migration, Love, Photo Gallery, Rising Stars, Slowdown, Spiegel, Vengeance, Vienna Austria

The global downturn has hit Eastern Europe with particular vengeance. Countries that profited more than many others from globalization and were previously capitalism’s rising stars are now seeing demand for exports collapse, along with their currencies. They are bracing for a hard landing. By Jan Puhl more…

Photo Gallery: Eastern Slowdown
Drawing up the Drawbridges: Europe Falls [...]

Surprises of Globalization

Posted by Matt in March 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, general, Authoritarian Government, Bailout, Culprits, Economic Change, Europeans, Financial Crisis, Food Prices, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Global Financial Crisis, Global Food Fight, Globalization, Gongo, hypocrisy, Ipods, Middle Class, Missing Links, Pandemic, Saudi-Arabia, Seven Long Years, Surprises of Globalization, Trade Talks

Missing Links: An Intellectual Bailout

January/February 2009
We must add another profession to the list of those in need of rescuing—economics itself.

Missing Links: After the Fall

November/December 2008
What the lessons of 9/11 could teach the world about the financial crisis.

Missing Links: The Hypocrisy Audit

September/October 2008
Double standards have always been a part of U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to [...]

Think Again: Globalization

Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, 1914, 20th Century History, Allies, Decline 3, Economic Superpower, Economic Volatility, Ethnic Conflict, Financial Collapse, Global Economic Meltdown, Globalization, Hamas, Inequality, Insecurity, Iran, Layoffs, Middle East Peace, Nuclear Umbrella, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapon, Obituaries, Social Unrest, Spiral, Syria Lebanon, Trillion, Unfair Trade

Forget the premature obituaries. To its critics, globalization is the cause of today’s financial collapse, growing inequality, unfair trade, and insecurity. To its boosters, it’s the solution to these problems. What’s not debatable is that it is here to stay.
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My Comment:
“What’s not debatable is that it is here to stay”. The “it” is globalization. [...]

Who Broke Global Finance, and Who Should Pay for It?

Posted by Matt in December 22nd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Financial, Architecture, Bretton Woods Conference, Current, European Leaders, Financial Crisis, Fundamental Challenge, Global Finance, Global Financial Crisis, Global Institutions, Globalization, Great Crash, Interdependence, International Economy, Meltdown, Radical Reform

The current financial crisis poses a fundamental challenge to globalization and to its many analysts. All are now considering what the recent meltdown means — the euphoric globalizers, few of whom are left; the tragic globalizers, who see the benefits of interdependence but worry about a great crash ahead; the managerial globalizers, who would like [...]

The End Of Globalization – World

Posted by Matt in November 16th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Economy, Trade, Bailout, Bank Debt, Capitalism, Caring Economy, Consequences, East Asia, Economic Globalization, Economic Reformer, Economist, Financial Crises, Financial Liberalization, Globalization, Hugo Chavez, Imf, Latin-America, Lending Institutions, Market Economy, Paul Krugman, President Hugo Chavez, Private Lenders, Privatization

The global financial machine has ground perilously close to a halt. This timely film explores what went wrong with economic globalization. How could the financial world have miscalculated so badly?
We chart financial liberalization in East Asia, privatization in Latin America, the reckless transition to capitalism in Russia, and China’s more cautious evolution to a market [...]