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Malcolm Tulloch

America’s economic growth is driven by population growth, which is expanding rapidly because of immigration. European populations are stagnating — they are becoming gentrified. One of Japan’s biggest problems is that its population is shrinking and graying. That’s what’s making its economic decline so difficult to repair.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Economics, International

What Happened to the Bull Market?

By the time NASDAQ reached its peak in the recent bull market, many financial commentators had begun to accept the idea that stock market valuations were no longer driven solely by the traditional economic factors: earnings growth, inflation, and interest rates. Instead, they suggested, new factors—such as structural changes in the economy, new rules of economics, and the value of intangible assets and brands—justified the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Tim Koller, Zane D. Williams | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, Market/Investment | Industry: Investment Banking

The Bottom of the Pyramid

Business visionary Stuart Hart thinks multinationals can help people rise out of poverty. And he has a business model to prove it.

Content: Article | Source: Tomorrow | Subjects: Economics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Peter Drucker

I am not afraid of monopolies because they eventually collapse. Thucydides wrote years ago that hegemony kills itself. A power that has hegemony always becomes arrogant. Always becomes overweened. And always unites the rest of the world against it. A countervailing power always reacts. A hegemonous system is very self-destructive. It becomes defensive, arrogant, and a defender of yesterday. It destroys itself. Therefore no monopoly … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Economics

It’s Out of this World! Global Expansion Comes with a Laborious Price Tag

Global expansion is normally a business tool used to perpetuate growth. However, in some cases, it can also cause problems for the economy. INSEAD Professor Daniel Traça reveals how the expansion of global trade may increase job insecurity and diminish wages. And that’s just one of his surprising findings.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Traça | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Economics, International

When the Gold Standard Lost Its Lustre

“Today gold is redundant; the bond market has replaced it as the ultimate restraint on central banks’ temptation to use monetary expansion as a short cut to prosperity. And, increasingly, inflation targets and institutions such as independent central banks create lastingly stable money. There are few certainties in international finance. But here is one: gold as part of the international monetary system is dead.” … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rudiger Dornbusch | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Economics, Finance

Roger Cass

Economics has become the science of mathematical modeling. But economic behavior is better studied through human history.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Economics

Roger Cass

I believe that if you work granularly, you can get a perception of things that isn’t available from the written analysis. Data can tell you a lot. Opinions without data are severely risky.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

Roger Cass

Waves are caused by excesses of production, investment, and liquidity in the expansion phase that carries the seeds of its own destruction, leading to overproduction, investment and lending, shortages of raw materials, rising costs, and, eventually, declining demand, profits, and investment. People see the long view as deterministic. They are afraid that they can’t predict things over such a long cycle. But I like determinism. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Economics

Darkness Before The Dawn

Strategist Michael Porter tells why Japan’s economic sun has set, and how it can rise again.

Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia

Milton Friedman

There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Business Rules, Capitalism

The Road to Serfdom

Content: Book | Author: Friedrich A. Hayek | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship