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Who Will Pay ??? Credit: Loco Steve 17 March 2011. Who Will Pay ??? Credit: Loco Steve 17 March 2011. Japanese insurance companies, global insurers and reinsurers, hedge funds and other investors in so-called "catastrophe bonds " are all expected...

Social media on the internet has caused a sensation, literally overnight with the success of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter (mainly). The question on everyone’s mind when it comes to social media is: what makes a campaign go viral in social...

There’s no denying the massive impact and influence the Internet and Social Media has today on the way businesses sell and market their products and services, interact and engage with customers – as well as how people communicate with each...

9 February 2011. In a memorable scene in the “The Social Network,” the actor Justin Timberlake, who portrays the Silicon Valley investor Sean Parker in the movie, leans over the table and tells the founders of Facebook in a conspiratorial...

27 January 2011. President Obama made a big deal of the economic potential for solar and other clean energy sources in his State of the Union speech this week, about which, in principle at least, we could not be more...

 20 January 2011.  20 January 2011. If Chinese President Hu gets tired of being lectured to by President Obama and the rest of the US corporate / government elite, he might politely look them in the eye, and softly say...

18 January 2011 We have consistently discussed how India's economic development strategy differs from those of China, Japan, and most of the rest of East Asia: 18 January 2011 We have consistently discussed how India's economic development strategy differs from...

17 January 2011. 17 January 2011. With the eyes of the world on the dramatic events in Tunisia, we start this week with an analysis of the global oil and gas scene from its eastern neighbor, Libya, specifically Dr. Shokri...

21 December 2010. How many flats in China are sitting empty?  It's been said many times that China is experiencing a nationwide urban property price bubble. Some months ago, the Chinese media floated a story – denied by power companies –...

On a sultry June evening in 2007, more than 100 people camped out at the offices of Emaar, a prestigious Dubai property developer, to ensure that they would land a coveted spot in a gleaming new skyscraper scheduled to open...

30 November 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com We hate to be party-poopers -- as elite media and politicians all over the world  freak out about the latest releases from Wikileaks -- but we honestly think the whole...

24 November 2010. When Indians travel to Europe, they are usually drawn to Paris, London and Switzerland,  places that are familiar to them through Bollywood films.  Since the 1990s, Indian directors have had a penchant for shooting love stories against...

 22 November 2010.  22 November 2010. There is no question that wireless technologies -- and cell phones in particular -- have made possible a huge jump into the future in emerging and frontier markets, creating an advanced communications infrastructure where...

18th November 2010.  A few days ago, we ran an In The News item about how demand for copper in China is pushing global prices for the metal to surprisingly close to their previous record high. 18th November 2010.  A few...

11 November 2010. A few years ago, Silicon Valley start-ups like Solyndra, Nanosolar and MiaSolé  dreamed of transforming the economics of solar power  by reinventing the technology used to make solar panels  and deeply cutting the cost of production .  Founded by veterans...