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Excellent Document on Decoupling and Global Supply Chains by ECRI; Why BRIC, and U.S. Decoupling Won't Happen | Mike Shedlock | Safehaven.com
By: Mike Shedlock | Fri, Mar 23, 2012
Question for you: Which distinctly British asset class has offered the most attractive returns over the past decade? Central London property?
THE PROTEIN BOMB | PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM
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Intellectual property and mobile devices: World patent war 1.0 | The Economist
Is the recent announcement of the world's population reaching the seven billion mark a cause for celebration or concern? Those who exult are apt to embrace the philosophy "the more, the merrier". Those who have grave reservations worry that the human race is in danger of overrunning the planet's natural resource carrying capacity, especially with 4.5 billion people having been added to the world's population in just the last 60 years.
Edward Flattau: The Seven Billion Quandary
Unless investors get spooked today during Halloween trading, the S&P 500 Index will post its second-best month since the post-World War II era, according to a report published by GaveKal Research. The last time markets rallied so strongly, Gerald Ford had recently moved into the White House and Muhammad Ali “rumbled in the jungle” with George Foreman. A few weeks back, we noted that Citigroup’s Panic/Euphoria model signaled an extremely negative sentiment level, indicating that higher equity prices should follow.
How China Drives The Global Economy - Seeking Alpha
What Business Should Do about Occupy Wall Street - S. Sivakumar - Harvard Business Review
S. Sivakumar is the group head of the Agri & IT businesses of the diversified Indian conglomerate ITC . He is the architect of ITC's eChoupal business model.
Rounding up for the record the various sorts of coverage Wikistrat enjoyed over the course of the competition, I wanted to highlight the following:
Thomas P.M. Barnett's Globlogization - Blog - Media & web mentions/coverage of recent Wikistrat International Grand Strategy Competition
In this paper I am interested in what ACTA as it emerged from the negotiating process has to teach us about the negotiation of international agreements in IP, and in whether we can see any evidence that those lessons have been learned or are being applied to the TPP negotiations.
"Intellectual Property in ACTA and the TP" by Kimberlee G. Weatherall
The American Dream is about more than housing -- it's the concept that we'll be better off than our parents. But odds of that happening for this generation have been stacked against it for years. No more white picket fences?
Don't just blame Wall Street: The American Dream has been eroding for years - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet
Mr Jiao also said the government would build more water transfer projects and hydroelectric dams and strengthen efforts to ensure the supply of safe drinking water. In a further sign of central government's determination to force provincial authorities to invest in water conservation, he added that 10 per cent of the value of local government's lucrative land transfer fees must be invested in improving water management. China's northern plain suffers regular droughts, while annual flooding wreaks havoc on farm areas in the south.
China to invest £400bn to overcome water shortage - Telegraph
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The Social Return on Professions: bankers destroy £ 7 of social value for every pound they generate
This report takes a new approach to looking at the value of work. We go beyond how much different professions are paid to look at what they contribute to society. We use some of the principles and valuation techniques of Social Return on Investment analysis to quantify the social, environmental and economic value that these roles produce – or in some cases undermine.Over the past 10 years the web has become an increasingly ubiquitous and useful utility for hundreds of millions of people across the world.
You share something, you get something back: How the web is redefining privacy - O'Reilly Radar
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Migrant Farm Workers in the PIGS, America, and Elsewhere: Noting a Balance Sheet Correlation
This past week the NYTs article, " Hiring Locally for Farm Work Is No Cure-All " described how a Colorado onion and sweet corn farmer couldn't find enough local help to work in his fields.Cash Flow Discounting Leads to “Astronomically” Large Mistakes Over the Long Term « naked capitalism
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