Just when the Western World was worried about a serious double-dip recession, the unthinkable happened: Asia faltered.
We often hear the expression "global village", however the many differences from one region to another mean very different legal frameworks from count...
Is business growing? Ask the buyers. Want a hot gauge of economic activity? It's probably best to go to the front lines. There are many indicators of economic activity, but they don't all tell the same story. One of those is the purchasing managers' index, now collected for a wide array of countries. What are these "buyers" telling us?
Surprise of the year: World oil production is rising more than was forecast. A shock? No, that's what happens when prices spike. What is surprising is that it's occurring right in our backyard -- in the good ol' USA. The bottom line? How quickly we have gone from running out of oil to being awash in the stuff. Maybe the surprise is that we are surprised that history is merely repeating itself!
Importantly, Canada and nations like America have entered a new phase in which promoting creativity and innovation represent the only option for boosting global competitiveness. Canada or any country desirous of succeeding in an interconnected world must aggressively adopt the idea that creativity is the single most important ingredient to reinventing itself.
TOKYO - Plagued by uncertainty and fresh setbacks, the world economy has weakened further and will grow more slowly over the next year, the Internatio...
Is there a conflict between your organization's policies externally, and the ground rules it enforces internally? In today's world of many-to-many contact and community-building, philosophical alignment is no longer optional. And without alignment, there is hypocrisy.
In light of plummeting stocks and rising joblessness, economist Nouriel Roubini isn't too optimistic on the state of the global economy. Roubini, w...
Whoops! There goes any progress stocks made in 2011. Stocks plunged Thursday, with the Dow tumbling 500 points just before the close, as fear about th...
In a study published today, the University of Helsinki's Tatu Westling points out a surprising strong correlation between a country's GDP growth rate ...
