I’m all packed and ready to go. On Sunday I’ll leave for Japan. During my two week stay I’ll spend about one week in Tokyo and travel to Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Fukuoka, Kamakura and Yokohama in my second week.
Ever since I was young I’ve had a strong interest in Japanese culture. Next to Japan’s [...]
Shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama announced his plans to introduce new fuel efficiency standards in the United States (->>> Obama ends the dominance of gas guzzlers on U.S. streets), the German luxury carmaker Daimler and the Californian electric-car maker Tesla Motors deepened their partnership. German Daimler AG acquried an almost 10% stake in the [...]
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Singapore determined to master the storm and Singapore and the global economic crisis
The Southeast-Asian citystate of Singapore has a reputation as a global hub for trade, travel and financial services. Diversifying its economy, Singapore is making a bet on biotech, telecommunications and clean energy technologies.
Especially solar power can easily become [...]
These are likely the final days of GM as we know it today. Immense structural changes are going on in the global auto industry right now (the fundamental transition of the auto industry , Auto Industry in Transition II , Auto industry in transition III), mergers, acquisitions are changing the game for the remaining competitors while others [...]
I highly recommend you to read the article “The Other GM” by TIME’s Bill Powell:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1896626,00.html
The article outlines an interesting scenario in which Shanghai GM might produce Chevys and Buicks in China at a tenth of the labor costs as in Detroit but at the same quality and export them to the United States to compete against [...]
Since oil prices collapsed in summer 2008, the OPEC cartel has cut its output several times to counteract falling oil prices. Until recently, these production cuts have not really had a significant impact on oil prices. Due to the dire state of the global economy, oil consumption especially in the United States has slumped. Last [...]
Now President Obama is taking action to make the USA a more energy-efficient country by introducing new fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. The byproducts will be a more sustainable economy, lower greenhouse gas emissions, cleaner air and a reduced dependence on oil imports.
The new regulations benefit the environment as well as consumers AND [...]
my post on wholesalesarong.com - Import & Export Forum :
shrinking global trade is good for some exporters (http://www.wholesalesarong.com/forum/article41.htm)
Global trade has been shrinking for months due to the economic turmoil that has left no country untouched. Consequently, container shipping companies and export-oriented countries suffer most. The export champion Germany recently reported that its GDP fell 3.8% in the first [...]
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The price of oil has a significant impact on the economic shape of the globalized world. The distance between manufacturing areas and the big consumer markets in the U.S. and in Europe has grown longer since globalization began to change the global economy, lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty [...]
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