Category: Globalisation
UK Trade Deficit
09-02-2011
The news that the UK trade deficit stood at £9.2bn for December, despite the weaker pound, is shaking confidence in the country's ability to export its way out of the deficit and a recession. When the services sector's contribution of £4.4bn...
Category: Globalisation
Round Up 5
14-12-2010
Welcome to another round up of recent articles of interest to manufacturers and armchair global strategists alike, who take a more global view and are sceptical of the advantages of trading with China, on which this blog focusses. Hope you find something...
Category: Globalisation
Round Up 4
21-10-2010
Here's another set of links to recent articles with a globalisation theme you might find interesting.
Chinese Premier Hu Jintao gave an impressive performance at the beginning of the month on CNN's 'GPS,' although he wasn't asked particularly...
Category: Globalisation
Round-Up 3
04-09-2010
Here's another round-up of articles that caught my eye recently, in case you missed any and would like to follow them up. As usual it's from a European perspective with a close watch on China.
The August headline that over 2000...
Category: Globalisation
July Round-Up
02-08-2010
Here's another round-up of recent articles on manufacturing and related issues, with a close eye on the Chinese front.
Li Ka Shing, one of Asia's richest men, is proving that the Chinese buy-up of strategic world resources isn't just confined...
Category: Globalisation
June Round-Up
01-07-2010
If you take a wider view of manufacturing, I hope this brief round up of recent articles you might have missed might be useful to you, especially if you keep an eye on the China front.
You might find this profile in the UK Daily Mail of Taiwan's...
Category: Globalisation
CNN- just Hype-Ad for the iPad?
04-04-2010
CNN is a real mixed bag of a media institution. Occasionally there's still good reporting and that roving first-on-the-scene feel that reminds you of its early days.
Yesterday wasn't one of those occasions. The launch of the iPad would have been...
Category: Globalisation
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Fairer Trade
15-02-2010
There's some incisive comment by Gilbert B. Kaplan over at the Huff Post on the need for a fairer trade policy http://is.gd/8rYLv. He's a commentator who understands that losing 5 million manufacturing jobs in the US since 2000...
Category: Globalisation
Honda Supports Re-Localisation
21-12-2009
Honda UK has been running a very interesting ad campaign at the moment. It captures the new mood of re-localisation that is emerging, and which is supported by this website, very well. Here's the text:
'Buying Local. You might not think it's...
Category: Globalisation
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Back To The Present
27-11-2009
It's not often billionaire capitalists do some hard thinking about the effect of the influence of the super-rich and the political elites on society. But one who did was multi-billionaire James Goldsmith. In 1994, he gave an interview with Charlie...
Category: Globalisation
The Reformation Of Globalisation
21-10-2009
We Over-40's remember how it felt to live through the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of Apartheid – we even remember the hilariously misconceived 'End of History,' although that one only seemed to last...
Category: Globalisation
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