The New York Times below reports on a coup in the auto industry and a poignant moment for China; Porsche unveiled its entry into the luxury sedan market in China on Sunday night, at the eve of the Shanghai auto show, marking the first time that Porsche has entered a new market segment at an [...]
Ross Hendin, CFP contributer and Principal of Hendin Consultants, has provided below a new chapter to the case of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, involving where and how Russia can be Russia and step in:
ITAR-TASS is reporting that the Russian State-owned nuclear power company, Rosatom, will build a new nuclear reactor in the Baltics to [...]
Indians turned out in steady numbers today to pick a new federal government in a month-long general election. The elections will run until next month in several stages of scattered polling. At that point, elections officials will count the vote electronically in a single day — on May 16, three days after the last round [...]
A great deal of attention on this blog goes toward the investment opporunities found in emerging markets. This window on how these developing nations are or are not improving economically serves useful when we later discuss which political events have made them so.
Below is an article from USA Today’s John Waggoner that speaks contrary to the [...]
A power shift from New York to Washington, from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, from Shanghai to Beijing. The fall of globalization and the rise of state capitalism. President Obama shifting global opinion of the US back out of the red, but its a shift that is blown far out of proportion.
These were but a few [...]
With a background in mining exploration, Corporate Foreign Policy contributor David Harris discusses government intervention in commodity markets to maintain economic competitiveness and speaks out on the need for a privatized mining sector to have an opportunity to thrive in a fair and healthy environment:
As the world’s developing nations continue to industrialize, global consumption of raw [...]
Napoleon once stated that one should be wary of China,” for when she wakes, she will shake the world”. One can not argue the fact that China is now viewed in the eyes of American media, who in some circles have been have noted to have a more introverted view of political events, as a [...]
Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group and author of The J-Curve and his latest book, The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, recently participated in an online discussion with the Washington Post to discuss how politics is increasingly driving the world economy and having direct implications for investors and multinational corporations. His most recent [...]
An interesting report was featured in Reuters and more recently on Gamebids.com, on the 2014 Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia, costing 15 percent less than originally anticipated as initial budget estimates exaggerated the projected cost.
In a Reuters interview on Tuesday, March 11, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said the state will fund [...]
It’s a familiar story, and I won’t be the first one to tell you. As documented widely, the rapid industrial rise of the BRIC economies has created an unexpected demand crush on natural resource commodities, generating all sorts of anomalies for foreign investors in extractive industries. We have seen resource nationalism issues pop [...]
