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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Languages Your Company Should Speak (But Has Never Heard)

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. Of nearly 2 billion internet users estimated in 2010, 82% spoke one of 10 macro-languages — English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Arabic, French, Russian, and Korean.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of GDP. It’s true of all commodity markets. I mean, I was really put down. Fear beats greed.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. There's also a payroll tax holiday included in that 2010 deal, which was always supposed to be temporary. shall not be questioned."