The last of this year’s big elections are a few months away, and they will be the biggest one to watch as always. This is because what happens in America affects the entire world, especially on the economic front. The country is not only the world’s largest economy, but one with the largest influence in… Continue reading Why the American Economy Might Never Get What It Needs
2024 happens to be an epic year of elections around the world. It is said that more than half the world will be electing their governments this year. If there is one thing they have brought into sharp focus once again, it is how divided we are as a people. This is not a new… Continue reading Extreme Divisions Fracturing Our World
While many countries such as India and others in the West as well as Iran have been busy with elections, about some of which I have been writing recently on my blog, one little event in Asia went rather unnoticed. Actually, make that two. The World Economic Forum which hosts its annual regional summit in… Continue reading SCO’s Relevance for India and the World
In a recent blog post of mine I had written about the US and its western allies’ allegations of China dumping its cheaper EVs, EV batteries, semiconductors, solar panels and the like on their markets. They have raised tariffs on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100% in the US and to 38% in the EU… Continue reading How China Can Overcome its Overcapacity Problems
The recently concluded G7 Summit in Italy – all the various stages of it – seems to be an acceptance of the group’s waning influence and relevance in today’s world. From reading and hearing news reports of the summit, I got the sense that with weakening economies, and plenty of political problems in each of… Continue reading G7’s Waning Influence and Relevance
Now that the first quarter of the calendar year 2024 has ended, it’s worthwhile trying to gauge the state of the global economic recovery from what the corporate earnings seem to be indicating so far. Of course, the March quarter happens to be the last quarter of our fiscal year in India, and we are… Continue reading What Global Inc Is Telling Us About the Economy
Just finished reading an absorbing book on AI by one of its leading practitioners, and I was hoping it wouldn’t be one of those rapturous, ra-ra kind of books on the subject. Thankfully, The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, founder of DeepMind which Google acquired, and Inflection AI, isn’t one of those kinds of books;… Continue reading Can We Change the Direction of The Coming Wave?
In my previous blog post I wrote about how changes in politics and geopolitics the world over can impact the global economy this year and the next few years at least. Now that the Annual Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank have concluded, I thought I’d write about how they see the world… Continue reading The Global Economy According to The IMF and The World Bank
As India prepares to go to the polls tomorrow in the largest democratic exercise in the world, it might be time to also think of elections that have already taken place this year and the others yet to come. I am looking at it from the point of view of the larger political shifts that… Continue reading Where Geopolitics Can Take the Global Economy
Sometime during the Covid-19 pandemic – not a great time for wining and dining, or travel and socialising – I had put my thoughts down on a corporate brand strategy for Pernod Ricard, the world’s No. 2 wines and spirits company. I wrote and shared this on my blog along with corporate campaigns for the… Continue reading Pernod Ricard and Seagram: Reconsidering the Brand Relationship
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