Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% Each ended in crisis. To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. The resulting crisis echoes those in Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. Why can the U.S. Imports surged.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Some even argued that they'd caused the financial crisis. current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. Still, 3.1%

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GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. Thus, 400 respondents to a (pre-crisis) poll about globalization levels on HBR.org came up with the responses summarized in green in the chart below. Global Prosperity and How to Achieve it (HBR Press, 2011). Most people aren't, of course, quite that credulous.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% And now oil is sending energy expenditures back above 9% of GDP, just as we see fresh indications that the recession persists. Annual energy expenditures rose from 6.2%

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark.

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

A 2011 study by Partnership for a New American Economy found that 76% of patents awarded to the top 10 patent-producing U.S. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Examining 250 recently-issued U.S. born co-inventors. These patents generated more than 1,600 jobs. You may not think of yourself as an immigrant.

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Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Health care is extremely expensive everywhere. But in the USA the health care system is twice as costly as other rich countries.

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Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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GDP Maturity Gordon Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia. trillion in the 301 major cities around the world. trillion in economic output at risk through 2025. Related Video. Account for the intangibles.

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Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011. The answer would generally seem to be, yeah, in the middle of a once-in-80-years economic crisis, we'd be better off without any limits on the federal government's ability to spend more than it takes in.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

However, in the subsequent months, Cuba has failed to advance on economic liberalization, encountered a fiscal crisis , watched the U.S. With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). An economic crossroads.

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