Future of Trade

Hi all,

SPO just published an article (see link below) about possible discontinuities (and implications for Singapore) under the auspices of Ethos Perspectives. 

There’s stuff ranging from a shift away from US-China driven growth, a new international financial architecture, the rise of state capitalism as the new dominant economic paradigm and the move from US unilateralism to global multilateralism. 

Comments, however brutal, so long as they are honest, are most welcomed.

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Will Islamic Finance dominate economics and eventually global trade? Will this dominance of Islamic Finance be faster than the dominance of China and India in the future? Will Islamic Finance dictate the next global currency?

The full document can be found at: http://www.iftf.org/system/files/deliverables/SR-1140+IFTF+TYF+2008+Perspectives_sm.pdf

For your reading pleasure.

There’s this interesting article referenced from http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/goldman-sachs-engineering-every-major.html, which pinned all the major market bubbles and busts to a major two-named investment bank, Goldman Sachs. It may somewhat exaggerate the role of Goldman Sachs, but it highlights the ways by which large financial institutions, or big entities for the matter, can manoeuvre itself to exploit/plunder by creating opportunities to do so or by taking advantage of current circumstances.

Now, the question is whether there really are some unnoticed, unknown and hidden manipulations of the economy that are taking place right now or will/can take place in the future, that will affect not just trade but also anything else that links to the economy… (essentially everything, I mean).

Hi everyone, it was nice meeting up today and let’s just kickstart it with posting and sharing articles, videos etc related to future of trade. I love Zhi Jia saying “It must make us uncomfortable!” and that’s the spirit of enquiry that’s very beneficial in pushing the boundaries beyond the known unknowns to the unknown unknowns for this topic. Gambatte!

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