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Financial and Banking Crisis Coming In 2015

February 2, 2011 · 3 comments

in G20, bailout, banks, bubble, capitalism, central banks, debt, deficits, economy, forecasts, future, government, indicators, international economy, market reports, money supply, preparedness, risk, sovereign debt, stimulus, wealth protection, world order

The DOW is back above 12,000 for the first time since June 2008 – kind of weird to imagine, isn’t it?  Does all feel right again in the world?  Back in June 2008 the markets buzzing full of bullish energy.  The U.S. housing sector tore it all apart, and the Ben Bernank huffed and puffed [...]

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Frontier Markets Replace Aging Emerging Markets

January 26, 2011

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Don’t freak out at the phrase “new world order:” this isn’t about conspiracy.  The fact is that 2011 is likely to be the year that China most definitively transitions to first place as the world’s foremost economic power.  And with China’s economic ascendancy, so follows the economic rise of China’s key trading partners, many of [...]

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Top Ten Largest Sovereign Wealth Funds

January 30, 2010 · 6 comments

in BRIC, China, G20, G8, GDP, India, OPEC, US debt, USD, capitalism, currencies, emerging markets, exchange rates, foreign investment, forex, gold, government, international economy, international stock market, market trends, oil, wealth, wealth protection, wealth transfer, world order, world reserve currency

With the phenomenal growth in sovereign wealth funds over the past thirty or so years – but especially in the last ten – it’s good to stop and take a look at where this new investment phenomenon is at today in 2010.
Here’s a list of the current top 10 sovereign wealth funds around the world.* [...]

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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 12 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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In Case You Missed It: G8 on the Global Economy and Other Good Tidbits

July 11, 2009 · 3 comments

in G8, international economy, link roundup, reading recommendations

This past week the G8 met in L’Aquila, Italy to discuss the global economy but also climate change and reducing carbon emissions.  According to the Telegraph, Gordon Brown warned “that sharp and unpredictable rises in oil prices risk “choking off” the global economy and pushing the world into a [...]

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