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World Order
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adminHenry Kissinger has always been a household name in the US, if not the world at large. His role as the former Secretary of State of President Richard Nixon and subsequently, the National Security Advisor of President Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s cemented his role as an icon of US…
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The Innovator’s Dilemma
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adminSuccess begets success, so goes the saying. But based on the research of Clayton M. Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School and a renowned corporate strategist, nothing can be furthest from the truth. The more successful a company becomes, the more it will become a victim of its…
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War Or Peace In The South China Sea
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adminSouth China Sea has been one of the most strategic issues to confront Asiasince World War I. When Alfred Mahan spoke glowingly of the importance of sea power, the American forces went from their halfway station in the Hawaii Islands to the Philippines. When Mao Tse Tung wanted to cement…
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The Sharing Economy
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adminIn a different age, Arun Sundarajan, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Management, would have been regarded as a “leftist.” All that focus on “sharing,” would have made the book look like a Communist Manifesto. But wait, the “Sharing Economy” is not about the present. Rather, it…
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Makers and Takers
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adminRana Foroohar, without a doubt has written an impressive book on the American economy. Unlike in the 1970s, when every USD 1 spent on investment would generate USD 3 worth of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) related activities; the table has been turned. These days, especially after the Great Recession in…
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The Curse Of Cash
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adminKenneth S Rogoff is not your conventional economist. He teaches at Harvard University, and was once chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. But he has put forward a powerful, and provocative proposition: paper currencies in the world over, especially those in large denominations, have to be phased out, in…
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Shareology – How Sharing Is Powering The Human Economy
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adminMost business concepts have a short shelf life. They cannot withstand the test of time, resulting in a cycle of peaks and valleys. Be it B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to customer), they invariably come and go and when they go they leave many many clutching straws. The burst…
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The Dollar Trap
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adminThe US economy has been financialized to the degree that it takes USD 4 dollars to produce USD 1 dollar of output. This ratio will keep enlarging. Indeed, it used to be USD 1.5 dollars to produce an output of USD 1 dollar in the 1970s-1980s. The good old days…
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The Great Rebalancing
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adminAll economies are now said to be going through a process of globalization, or homogenization if you will. In other words, they are emulating the best practices out there. Such processes of emulation is of course premised on other platforms of the economy being functional.. That the banks, regulatory agencies,…
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The Fix
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adminJonathan Tepperman doesn’t waste your time in telling you where the problems are. He just goes ahead and lists them down. Problems like inequality, lack of political leadership,policy gridlock, immigration, the resource curse are among them. Unless and until a country is able to resolve these problems, either all at…