Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Africa has become the great hope of the business world. The World Bank says Africa could be on the verge of a take-off the like of China’s 30 years ago. Populations are stagnating or declining in Europe, Japan and China, while Africa’s population of 1
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Japan desperately needs real reforms that open up the economy and make it more friendly for business. The Economist says a Japanese company has to actually go out of business to be able fire any of its workers. Japan is 134th out of 144
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: China does infrastructure better than anyone in the world – trains, roads, airports, subways built at amazing speed, on a grand scale and with great foresight. The HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company, Ltd, will help finance a Nicaraguan canal at a total cost
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria writes: The great American housing market is back. The American economy has again shown its core character of flexibility and resilience. The US is the only rich country in the world whose population is growing – by 3 million a year, mostly legal immigration. Americans
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said China is not the world’s other superpower and we should not treat it as such. Zakaria said China has always played a weak hand brilliantly, and will one day become the largest economy, but by most political, military, strategic and cultural measures it is not a
READ MORE... →Fareed Zakaria said: The great American housing market is back as the Case-Shiller housing index showed its largest annual increase in prices in seven years, showing its core character: flexibility and resilience. The US is the only rich country whose population is growing, increasing by 3 million people every year,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria writes: Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal says Americans are about to repeat the lessons of the 1930s, when isolationism led to Hitler and WWII. Yet America spends more on defense than the next 10 great powers put together. Obama’s worldview is rooted in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The data is increasingly convincing that the Keynesians have been right, cutting spending in the kind of recession we have gone through will only hurt growth not help it. But spending on its own is not enough. For sustained growth in the long-term, countries
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The fundamental rule of international relations is that as a country becomes powerful, others gang up to bring it down – viz the Habsburg Empire to Napoleonic France to Germany to the Soviet Union. The one great exception in modern history is the US,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: A recent Pew survey found that only 51 percent of Americans think it’s essential to act on immigration reform this year, versus 70 percent who demand a deficit reduction deal this year, despite the wealth of data that shows that immigration reform will lead
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