With global demand seemingly in free fall, will the United States and China turn to foreign direct investment as a possible cushion?
China has staked its future on a growth model that will exacerbate volatility and increase the severity of a future downturn.
China seems to be heading toward a hard landing and Beijing, many Chinese and foreign experts warn, must cut interest rates drastically and expand credit, so saving itself and the world from disaster.
For China, slower growth can actually be a good thing if it’s part of the transition to a more sustainable path.
While the Trans-Pacific Partnership should be recognized and applauded for what it will be, it is problematic that the partnership does not include China, the world’s second-largest economy and largest exporter and manufacturer.
Services and commodities have fueled Indonesia's recent growth, but only manufacturing can create high quality jobs and help the country escape the middle-income trap.
The driving force behind the U.S. deficits and China’s surpluses lies not in exchange rates but in structural factors that built up over time.
A more competitive private sector, not fiscal austerity, is more likely to help bring long-term stability back to Spain and Italy and put them on the road to prosperity
A new worldwide monetary contraction could reverse many of the advances in globalization that the international community takes for granted.
The deepening economic crisis in Europe can be attributed to ignorance and the increasingly unbalanced concentration of the power to make critical decisions.






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