{"id":4709,"date":"2007-10-14T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/which-way-world-economy\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T21:23:26","slug":"which-way-world-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/which-way-world-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Which way the world economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoundry.com\/z\/p\/1\/3503\/1265\/744AB6F4\/1A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Revolutionary Wealth\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31FK5DRGFQL.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"108\" alt=\"Revolutionary Wealth\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering for the last few months as to which way the economy of the world is going towards? It affects \u2013 at a personal level \u2013 decisions of investments and money management and at a broader level \u2013 involving industrial shifts \u2013 the shape of work and jobs to come.<\/p>\n<p>I am reading \u201cRevolutionary Wealth\u201d by Alvin Toffler\u2026 and it has some interesting thoughts and analysis. However, I think each one of us needs to do that same kind of analysis as we go on, based on our experiences. I will try and put here the various economic-oriented happenings that are happening in the world today.. and based on them we may do some analysis on how the world may settle. Its just an exploratory discussion and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The major issues that I see (and which I intend to discuss later in more detail are) in no particular order as of now (<em>I will keep expanding this list as well<\/em>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>US Economy:<\/strong> Large US deficit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>China Economy:<\/strong> Trade imbalance of US and Europe in favor of China<\/li>\n<li><strong>China Economy:<\/strong> China\u2019s great growth and manufacturing base<\/li>\n<li><strong>India economy:<\/strong> Rise of services sector<\/li>\n<li><strong>India economy:<\/strong> Unequal growth<\/li>\n<li><strong>European Economy:<\/strong> Socialist agendas<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian Economy:<\/strong> Oil power and Soviet Deja vu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Middle East Politics:<\/strong> Islam discord with Western policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoundry.com\/z\/p\/1\/3503\/1265\/744AB6F4\/1A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Revolutionary Wealth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31FK5DRGFQL.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"108\" alt=\"Revolutionary Wealth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering for the last few months as to which way the economy of the world is going towards? It affects &#8211; at a personal level &#8211; decisions of investments and money management and at a broader level &#8211; involving industrial shifts &#8211; the shape of work and jobs to come.<\/p>\n<p>I am reading &#8220;Revolutionary Wealth&#8221; by Alvin Toffler&#8230; and it has some interesting thoughts and analysis. However, I think each one of us needs to do that same kind of analysis as we go on, based on our experiences. I will try and put here the various economic-oriented happenings that are happening in the world today.. and based on them we may do some analysis on how the world may settle. Its just an exploratory discussion and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The major issues that I see (and which I intend to discuss later in more detail are) in no particular order as of now (<em>I will keep expanding this list as well<\/em>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>US Economy:<\/strong> Large US deficit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>China Economy:<\/strong> Trade imbalance of US and Europe in favor of China<\/li>\n<li><strong>China Economy:<\/strong> China&#8217;s great growth and manufacturing base<\/li>\n<li><strong>India economy:<\/strong> Rise of services sector<\/li>\n<li><strong>India economy:<\/strong> Unequal growth<\/li>\n<li><strong>European Economy:<\/strong> Socialist agendas<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian Economy:<\/strong> Oil power and Soviet Deja vu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Middle East Politics:<\/strong> Islam discord with Western policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which way the world economy?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have been wondering for the last few months as to which way the economy of the world is going towards? 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