Shocks will continue. Building resilience is one of the most critical skills we can develop, as individuals and organizations. This is just one of 12 themes covered in the wrap-up we’ve created of our “Insights to Impact” publishing journey this year… At the beginning of this year, at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting inContinue reading “Preparing For the Unknown”
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A Beginning Has Been Made. Oil Might Not Be Bought With Dollars Anymore But With Yuan.
Rashid Husain Syed, a senior member of Islamabad-based Back2School Forum, who is a Toronto-based journalist, consultant, and energy analyst and lived in Saudi Arabia for a quarter of a century says a beginning has been made toward Chinese request to Riyadh (and other Gulf Monarchs) to use yuan, for at least part of its oilContinue reading “A Beginning Has Been Made. Oil Might Not Be Bought With Dollars Anymore But With Yuan.”
Bangladesh, India Part of Alternative Supply Chain Centers. China Losing its Place as Factory of the World.
China is losing its place as the center of the world’s supply chains. China has been the factory of the world for the past four decades and ushered in an era of globalization and integrated supply chains. COVID-19 is pushing companies to diversify supply chains away from the country. They had already begun moving outContinue reading “Bangladesh, India Part of Alternative Supply Chain Centers. China Losing its Place as Factory of the World.”
COMMENT: Pak Reactivates Saudi, Kuwaiti Offer For Refinery in Gwadar, Balochistan
To meet fossil fuel demands till 2040, Pakistan has reactivated stalled Saudi & Kuwaiti oil refinery offers in Balochistan. The aim it seems is value-addition than just import of crude/petroleum from the region’s oil exporters. Storing & marketing them beyond may also be on the wish list. Express Tribune reports that Pakistan and Saudi ArabiaContinue reading “COMMENT: Pak Reactivates Saudi, Kuwaiti Offer For Refinery in Gwadar, Balochistan”
History Shows That Free Trade Can’t Buy World Peace
One of the Most Famous Ideas in Economics Is Wrong Jacob Soll in Politico: One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that free markets bring peace between countries. It comes from the notion that commerce drives humans to follow their mutual material interests rather than make destructive war due to passions. This wasContinue reading “History Shows That Free Trade Can’t Buy World Peace”
Pakistan: Where Used Cars Have More Lasting Value Than Money
Pakistan is an unusual place for cars. You can buy a new vehicle, drive it for years, and sell it at a higher price: Muhammad Rameez, head of sales at Foundation Securities Pvt., says he purchased a new hatchback from the local unit of Suzuki Motor Corp. in 2019. After driving it 12,000 kilometers inContinue reading “Pakistan: Where Used Cars Have More Lasting Value Than Money”
World’s First World Fair: The Palace and the Water Lily
The building’s chief architect, Joseph Paxton, was not an architect by training. He was a gardener. By Eric Bies in 3Quarks Daily: May of 1851, London, the world’s first World Fair. Just about Anyone who was (or was bound to be) Anyone was in attendance at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry ofContinue reading “World’s First World Fair: The Palace and the Water Lily”
Is the Age of Fusion Upon Us?
Economically viable fusion energy will be one of the greatest boons in human history, but it remains frustratingly elusive Kahled Talaat in Tablet: The 21st century may one day be known more than anything else for the period when human beings transitioned from fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. Such a transition, as we knowContinue reading “Is the Age of Fusion Upon Us?”
What’s ‘the Titanium Economy?’
The future of the American economy is hiding in an unlikely place; valuable but unfamiliar. The world is transitioning to a post-fossil fuel zero-carbon economy as the effects of population growth, anthropogenic climate change, and the awareness of dwindling petrochemical resources are becoming more widely known. AZO MATERIALS There’s a vibrant “titanium economy” made upContinue reading “What’s ‘the Titanium Economy?’”