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Warning Signs from the Chinese Stock Market

Harvard Business Review

And right now, the Chinese stock market continues to flash multiple warning signs of a sharp economic slowdown. Since November of 2010, FXI has fallen off a high of $48 to a current price in the mid-$30 range and has fallen as low as $28 over the last year. But as the rates of GDP growth continue to stagnate in both Europe and the U.S.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7%

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The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

Harvard Business Review

The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. Broader measures are even more damning. trillion.

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