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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Editorial reviews: Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical… this is Bigthink with a capital B.The New York Times Book Review...
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Banking
Banks under fire
Tomorrow’s Battleground For Banks Banks and regulators worldwide are starting the new decade at loggerheads, but signs are slowly beginning to emerge that point to the future shape of regulation. By Nick Kochan Banks are on the ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Looking ahead: shifting sands
Shifting Sands Global Finance takes a long, hard look at the prospects for the coming decade. By Dan Keeler The first decade of the 21st century began with the spectacular and painful collapse of the dot-com bubble ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Dollars decline
The Dollar’s Decline A weak dollar may be beneficial to the US in the short term, but it is undermining the dollar’s long-term status as the de facto global currency. By Laurence Neville One of the rocks ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
The new world powers
THE NEW WORLD POWERS The coming decade will witness a fundamental rebalancing of economic power, setting the stage for this to become the Asian Century. By Harold L. Sirkin It is clear to almost everyone that ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Mergers & Acquisitions
Taiwan Emerges As Tech M&A; Hot Spot By Gordon Platt In the biggest merger ever in Taiwan, liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor maker Innolux Display agreed in November to acquire Chi Mei Optoelectronics, which makes LCD panels for ...
News
Cover Story: A Wide Open World
A WIDE OPEN WORLD As new technologies help individuals gain greater access to information and data, how they use it will change the corporate and financial worlds forever. To stay ahead of the pack, firms must change the way ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story: Building Boom
Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story: Credit Where It’s Due
Credit Where It’s Due As governments around the world contemplate reeling in the financial lifelines that helped them prevent a global systemic meltdown, the prospects for credit growth in the coming decade are still unclear. By Antonio Guerrero ...
Banking
Cover Story: When Two World’s Collide
ISLAMIC FINANCING Islamic finance is set to become one of the defining phenomena of the coming decade. Some are concerned, though, that the surge of growth may compromise the strict principles on which it is founded. By ...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Welcome To The Future
One year ago, as we looked ahead to 2009, the financial world was a bleak place. In the depths of the credit crunch, one of the most crucial elements of global business—trust—had all but evaporated...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Anglo Platinum/South Africa
Auto Sales Revival Puts New Shine On Platinum By GP South Africa-based Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest primary producer of platinum, retrenched in 2009 after demand for the metal used in catalytic converters suffered from decreasing consumption by ...